Construction Workers Quotes

• The road to success is always under construction.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Inspiring, Success

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• If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

  Patrick Carney

  Guitar, Nashville, Play

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• Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.

  Howard Schultz

  Artist, Should Have, Entrepreneur

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• They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.

  Clark Gable

  Piano, Guy, Ordinary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.

  Brad Pitt

  Girl, Past, Fame

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• The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents.

  Michio Kaku

  Jobs, Garden, Blue

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• I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

  Eartha Kitt

  Used, Streets, Construction

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• So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.

  Amy Poehler

  People, Giving, President

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• President Obama had beer with four unemployed construction workers. And Obama asked the guys what was it like to lose their jobs, and they were like, 'Oh, you'll see.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Jobs, Beer, Guy

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• One day I was watching these construction workers go back to work. I was watching them kind of trudging down the street. It was like a revelation to me. I realized these guys don’t want to go back to work after lunch. But they’re going. That’s their job. If they can exhibit that level of dedication for that job I should be able to do the same. Trudge your ass in.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Jobs, Dedication, Lunch

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• I was walking down the street the other day and these construction workers were working on the roof hammering away. One of them told me I was a paranoid lunatic... in morse code.

  Emo Philips

  Morse Code, Paranoid, Roof

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• He was the most perfectly formed man she'd ever imagined. He was movie stars, men in underwear commercials, guys at the gym, the construction worker in the red T-shirt who'd whistled at her but she'd pretended she hadn't heard; he was the men in three-piece suits whose brains were as sexy as their bodies; he was lazy, indolent seventeen-year-old boys whose muscles bulged out of their clothes, rodeo stars, and those smooth-cheeked, eyeglassed men who held their children tenderly. He was all of them.

  Jude Deveraux

  Sexy, Stars, Children

  Jude Deveraux (2012). “Sweet Liar”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is.

  Miles Teller

  Military, Class, My Best Friend

  Source: collider.com

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• The Love Undercover series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes.

  Lori Foster

  Hero, Two, Rats

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• Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art would be revolutionized by freeing designers and construction workers from repetitive tasks, and democratized by making high-style architecture more affordable.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Design, Style

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• The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?

  David Plouffe

  Teacher, Jobs, Games

  "White House Senior Advisor David Plouffe". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It's remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months.

  James Surowiecki

  Cities, Matter, Months

  "Creative Destruction?" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sports, Jobs, Real

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• Remodeling defies the principles of modern commerce. You shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, yet these same people are constantly insinuating that you're cheap. (It reminded me of medicine, another area where you shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, who make you feel guilty for questioning a bill.) Construction workers are the blue-collar version of the snooty salespeople at Gucci who make $8 an hour but look down on you if you balk at a $400 alligator wallet.

  Margo Kaufman

  Blue, Medicine, People

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• About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter."

  Ayn Rand

  Friends, Simple, Views

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• I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.

  Bill Shorten

  Two, Matter, Factory Workers

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I am often asked why men don't get as worked up as they might about women - particularly poor women - having to use their bodies as prostitutes. Because most men unconsciously experience themselves as prostitutes every day - the miner, the firefighter, the construction worker, the logger, the soldier, the meatpacker - these men are prostitutes in the direct sense: they sacrifice their bodies for money and for their families.

  Warren Farrell

  Sacrifice, Men, Firefighter

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and a construction worker; we probably looked like the Village People.

  Craig Johnson

  Sight, Two, People

  Craig Johnson (2013). “The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set”, p.446, Penguin

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• I don't mean to sound sexist, but as far as women have come over the last 40 years, you don't really see a lot of women hunters. They're still in the minority in the military, and there's not a lot of female construction workers. I hope that's not taken the wrong way. I think women are as smart, resourceful, and capable in most things as any man could be … but they are generally physically weaker. That's science.

  Robert Kirkman

  Military, Smart, Taken

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• Our infrastructure of bridges, roads and ports has been given a D-level rating by many civil engineer societies. The government should shift some money from the Defense budget and hire companies to fix our infrastructure. As for non-construction workers, we need to do job retraining in those growing areas where more skilled workers will be needed.

  Philip Kotler

  Jobs, Bridges, Government

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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