Construction Quotes

• The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Roots

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• It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

  David Allan Coe

  Badass, Bad Ass, Foundation

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• The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Creativity, Differences

  Charles Dickens (1906). “Works, ed. by G.K. Chesterton and W. Jerrold. 22 vols.”

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• The road to success is always under construction.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Inspiring, Success

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• The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

  Helen Keller

  Knowledge, World, Imaginary

  Helen Keller (2013). “The World I Live In”, p.44, The Floating Press

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• When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, War, Men

  "31st President Achieved Prominence in Four Major Careers During His Lifetime". www.nytimes.com. Ooctober 21, 1964.

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• If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

  Douglas Coupland

  Failure, Doe, Looks

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• Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.

  Henri Matisse

  House, Together, Fit

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• The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

  Charles Bukowski

  Distance, Two, Unbearable

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• A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Creativity, Creative Thought, Related To Creativity

  "Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1911.

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• A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

  Jose Saramago

  Fashion, Destruction, States

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.

  Norman O. Brown

  Health, Exercise, Self

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• You are actually constructing... what your head understood about what your eyes saw.

  Doris McCarthy

  Eye, Saws, Understood

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• Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground

  Noah Webster

  Ties, Long, Joy

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• Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Love, Money, Men

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

  Donald Knuth

  Change, Attitude, Learning

  "The Art of Computer Programming. Volume 3". Book by Donald Knuth, www.wired.com. 1973.

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• Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

  Plato

  Depression, Class, States

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.246

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• For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Jobs, Years, Docks

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• The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s.

  Robert Loggia

  Italian, Mafia, Way

  Interview with AVC, film.avclub.com. September 8, 2011.

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• Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.

  James J. Hill

  Funny, Giving, Sweden

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• It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.

  Russell Brand

  Beautiful, Believe, Recovery

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

  William Shakespeare

  Fake People, Art, Science

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 4, l. 7

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• I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.

  Frank Gehry

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

  "The Art Teacher's Book of Lists". Book by Helen D. Hume, December 31, 1997.

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• The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Time, Nature, Space

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1998). “The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Honey, Bees, Sweetest

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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