Best 161 quotes in «construction quotes» category

Truth is a fundamental principle that is needed for any form of building or construction. So also is honesty.

We are all constructed out of our self dialogue.

We all know our goals in life and we must attain them no matter what obstacles we face.

We all know our goals and we must attain them no matter what obstacles we face in life.

When business owners focus on learning and growing, money follows by default.

We are all the construction of a story and it is only at the end that we can assess the value of the plot. ("Everybody his story")

What was it like then to witness the transformation wrought by this construction? A geometric idea of precision suddenly imposed on a landscape, lived on and in for centuries. The land itself like a body submitted to military discipline. Or like a mind, tutored along certain acceptable pathways, so that finally all that lies outside certain avenues of thought begins to assume an air of unreality. The land of course is still there. Only now it has receded into the background. It is what you see in your peripheral vision as you speed down the highway. The complexity of it, the intricate presence of it, has been reduced now to a single word, jungle. If once you breathed its breath or slept surrounded by its dark or wakened with its light, you no longer remember. You tell yourself life has improved. The jungle is in the past. To enter it is to stray from the path, or to be pulled down into some unknown depth. It is an exotic place, intriguing but also unpredictable, uncontrolled, threatening the well-paved order of existence.

Your life success is well designed by the mental transformation you experience. That mental transformation guides you to construct powerful decisions. You can't live life so well without mental make-ups.

Word hard, work smart but no matter you do, work in silence. Great battles were won with stealth.

A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone.

A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.

Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.

Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.

A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts in earnest.

A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

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

Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.

An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

As designers, we do so much with material and construction. It's really architectural; it comes close to building. A scent is so immaterial. It's really about emotion and sensation. Clothes are too, but it's not the same.

But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?

Be heroes in an army of construction.

Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man . . . requires the discovery of some new metal or force. Even with such a discovery, we could not expect one to do more than carry its owner.

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.

Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

Demolition is a part of construction.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

Criticism is not construction, it is observation.

Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions

Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.

I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.

I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by the rules of Donatus [a well-known grammarian].

I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.

I hope God does not look like a bunch of wealthy white European dudes who are going to script the justification for the subjugation and legal ownership of other human beings based upon the construction of race as a biological phenomenon.