Construct Quotes

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

I can see both trends among the youths: people who are ready for a constructive, critical and active presence, and others who are ready to become invisible Muslims and to compromise to be accepted. I put my hope in the former and pray for the latter.

Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good. If you cling to a certain thought with dynamic will power, it finally assumes a tangible outward form. When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your destiny.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become.

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

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.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

Be careful, think about the effect of what you say.

Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.

The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush.

This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology.

If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.

... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society.

We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

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.

Even the greatest idea can become meaningless in the rush to judgement.

To gauge an idea as feasible we must cut our ties to the status quo and find the balance between constructive criticism and judgment. Within that balance we will uncover crucial input for making our ideas a reality.

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons.

It is the spirit of conquest.