Constructs Quotes - Page 17

• What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.

  Dorothy Allison

  Writing, Libertarian, Boring

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• The method of differences is, in fact, a method of additions; and as it includes within its means a larger number of results attainable by addition simply, than any other mathematical principle, it was very appropriately selected as the basis on which to construct an Adding Machine, so as to give to the powers of such a machine the widest possible range.

  Ada Lovelace

  Mean, Differences, Numbers

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• It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful it is marvelously ineffable.

  Vanna Bonta

  Beautiful, Interesting, Poetry

  "The Cosmos as a Poem". Book by Vanna Bonta., 2010.

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• The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you
  must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.

  T. D. Jakes

  Running, Regret, Winning

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• But it is important to realize we are all trapped in mental constructs, and so we separate ourselves from reality; the whole world loses its aliveness-or, rather, we lose our ability to sense that aliveness, the sacredness of nature. When we approach nature through the conceptualizing mind, we see a forest as a commodity, a concept. We no longer see it for what it truly is, but for what we want to use it as. It is reduced. This is how it becomes possible for humans to destroy the planet without realizing what they are doing.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reality, Mind, Important

  "Beyond Happiness And Unhappiness". Interview with Steve Donoso, thesunmagazine.org. July 2002.

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• In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.

  Taryn Simon

  Two, Back And Forth, Blur

  "Taryn Simon's Visual Babel". Interview with Lauren Cornell, www.newyorker.com. August 2, 2012.

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• I really wanted to know what happens in a place that is trying to build socialism, that's trying to construct some form of social justice. That's trying to feed people, to make health care and education a right.

  Assata Shakur

  People, Justice, Trying

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• I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don't want to construct the show to prove something.

  Bo Burnham

  Thinking, Want, Speak

  Source: thelatest.co.uk

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• How can you construct a morality if there's no morality inherent in the way things are? You might be able to delude yourself into thinking you had 'created' a morality, but that's all it would be, an illusion.

  John Lennox

  Thinking, Would Be, Might

  Source: thinkingaboutcreation.blogspot.com

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• This is one thing that's very interesting, how the people on the left always talk about separation of church and state. When you look at the theocracies all across the Middle East, where we look at constitutions that are based upon the Qur'an, I don't think you want to see that happening in the United States of America. So it is a theocratic political construct.

  Allen West

  Thinking, America, People

  Source: www.browardpalmbeach.com

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• The construct of a dashboard, first of all should be drafted by the founder.

  Keith Rabois

  Dashboards, Firsts, Should

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• Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built objects - but I do sometimes imagine them as mathematical constructs.

  James Arthur

  Thinking, Ikea, Together

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Jobs, House

  Source: www.mantlethought.org

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• The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.

  Peter King

  Zero, Practice, People

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• Not to destroy but to construct,
  I hold the unconquerable belief
  that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
  that nations will come together
  not to destroy but to construct
  and that the future belongs to those
  who accomplish most for humanity.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  War, Ignorance, Science

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• The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second most important moral principle for all the generations of humanity?

  Sam Harris

  Humanity, Religion, Important

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• I want to see something that I've never seen before, so how can I tell that actor what that is? I'm not trying to construct a document or situation that is what I want, because what I want is something new to me.

  Robert Altman

  Trying, Want, Actors

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• Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does mean, once our relief at jettisoning an outdated piece of ideological furniture is over, that we must construct something to take its place.

  Julian Huxley

  Mean, People, Doe

  "Essays of a Humanist (The New Divinity)". Book by Julian Huxley, 1964.

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• Spirituality can not be separate from how we treat our bodies, construct our lifestyles, and keep our energy at higher levels.

  James Redfield

  Energy, Levels, Body

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• I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

  Carol Shields

  Mother, Thinking, Discovery

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• One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

  Francis Bacon

  Reality, Matter, Structure

  Francis Bacon, Rudy Chiappini, Palazzo reale di Milano (2008). “Bacon”, Skira - Berenice

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• You know so many documentaries now are very carefully scripted before you start, and then people are sort of put in chairs which are beautifully lit, and they tell their stories and you do that with another 10 people and you then construct a story from what they say. You do a sort of paper thing, and then you put some images in-between, and that's your film. And that's so not what I think is a good documentary. It can be so much more than that, it should be much more of an adventure and much more uncertain... like real things are.

  Nick Broomfield

  Real, Adventure, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own.

  Lynne Cheney

  Children, Ideas, Discovery

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• We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.

  Nick Cave

  Powerful, Flames, Hands

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• I don't really deal with the attention I receive to be honest. I build up a fantasy world around me that I inhabit. I cherry pick elements of literature, music, film, history and art, then weave them together to construct a fantasy reality to live in. It doesn't always work out though, I got evicted from my own fantasy once, which was quite embarrassing.

  Pete Doherty

  Art, Reality, Film History

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