Construction Quotes - Page 15

• I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.

  Tony Fadell

  Water, House, Design

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• As you know, there were lots of huge marches around the country yesterday to protest the immigration laws. The marches had quite an impact on businesses. Restaurants had to close, construction sites had to shut down, the Yankees had to forfeit a game. ... Do you realize that Americans are now doing the jobs that immigrants won't do because they're out protesting?

  Jay Leno

  Country, Jobs, Impact

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• A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of that imperium. What they set themselves out to achieve instead - often not recognizing fully what they were doing - was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming age of barbarism and darkness.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Men, Community, Darkness

  "After Virtue". Book by Alasdair MacIntyre, 1981.

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• It's a real testament to the amount of skill and talent involved, across the board, whether it's the production design, the construction, the costume design, the other actors, the way it's shot, the directors we had on it, or obviously John's writing. When things do go well, it sometimes seems easy, in a weird way, but it's actually down to a lot of cogs working in a big machine. But, I'm certainly happy to be going back. I'm excited to carry on.

  Harry Treadaway

  Real, Writing, Skills

  Source: collider.com

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• There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of the great orchestra. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards. This process of dismemberment is called research. The place for dismemberment is called a university.

  Aldo Leopold

  Animal, Men, Boards

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.188, Library of America

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• My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here I may as well observe that, throughout the construction, I kept steadily in view the design.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Views, Choices, Design

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition”, p.1261, ShandonPress

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• Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm. But the destruction in dark energy is also a subtle aspect of construction, like how even forest fires have their benefits. Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.

  Keanu Reeves

  Teacher, Mistake, Mean

  "Do What You Love. Keanu and Keanu Doctrine". Interview with Li Hongyu and Wei Jie in Chinese Southern Weekly (translated by Anakin McFly), www.whoaisnotme.net. June 27, 2013.

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• The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation is unnecessary, and cannot be indulged in to narrow or enlarge the text; but where there is ambiguity or doubt, or where two views may well be entertained, contemporaneous and subsequent practical construction is entitled to the greatest weight.

  Melville Fuller

  Two, Views, Law

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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

  Construction Workers, Blue, Medicine

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• ... trying to control construction costs is like trying to control the cost of a hospital stay. You may not realize that when you sneeze and the nurse hands you a box of tissues, it generates a $5 charge on your bill. But you still have to pay.

  Margo Kaufman

  Hands, Nurse, Trying

  Margo Kaufman (1997). “This Damn House!: My Subcontract with America”, Dell Books

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• All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.

  Ian Anderson

  Guitar, Play, Skills

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• Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

  Camille Paglia

  Defense, Artificial

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, p.1, Yale University Press

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• I'm much more comfortable in pants and shirts, running around. There was a typical construction about womanhood when I was growing up that I rejected.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Running, Growing Up, Pants

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• "What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For "truth" itself is an abstract noun, a camel, that is, of a logical construction, which cannot get past the eye even of a grammarian. We approach it cap and categories in hand: we ask ourselves whether Truth is a substance (the Truth, the Body of Knowledge), or a quality (something like the colour red, inhering in truths), or a relation ("correspondence"). But philosophers should take something more nearly their own size to strain at. What needs discussing rather is the use, or certain uses, of the word "true." In vino, possibly, "veritas," but in a sober symposium "verum."

  J. L. Austin

  Truth, Eye, Past

  "Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society". "Truth" by J. L. Austin, "Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society", 1950.

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• Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense in the construction of works. ...the architect does not demand things which cannot be found or made ready without great expense. For example: it is not everywhere that there is plenty of pitsand, rubble, fir, clear fir, and marble... Where there is no pitsand, we must use the kinds washed up by rivers or by the sea... and other problems we must solve in similar ways.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Sea, Rivers, Common Sense

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter II, Section 8,

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• The construction of temples of the Ionic order to Juno, Diana, Father Bacchus, and the other gods of that kind, will be in keeping with the middle position which they hold; for the building of such will be an appropriate combination of the severity of the Doric and the delicacy of the Corinthian.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Father, Order, Delicacy

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter II, Section 5,

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• Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.

  Steven Holl

  Thinking, Giving, House

  Interview with Josephine Minutillo, www.architecturaldigest.com. December 31, 2011.

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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, Construction Workers

  Source: collider.com

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• What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.

  Louie Psihoyos

  Art, Powerful, Giving

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• I have many women executives. I always have. When I was back in the construction days, the big construction days, I had women in charge of big developments.

  Donald Trump

  Development, Bigs, Executives

  "New Day" with Chris Cuomo, www.cnn.com. August 11, 2015.

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• Some of our earliest codes of ethics in the so-called Western World are little more than a rewriting of the Ten Commandments. Eastern legal constructions likewise arise out of the earliest spiritual traditions and understandings.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Understanding, World

  "A Revolution Is What’s Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The essence of effective portfolio construction is the use of a large number of poorly correlated assets.

  William J. Bernstein

  Essence, Numbers, Use

  "Smart Advice for the HuffPost Investor" by Dan Solin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2007.

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• When you have a lot of construction going on, it sends a message of vitality that builds up consumer confidence. It gets people to spend money when they see that energy, that things are happening.

  Mick Cornett

  People, Energy, Vitality

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• The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away

  John Warren Kindt

  Jobs, Gambling, Going Away

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• The Cabal is of two kinds, theoretical and practical, with the practical Cabala, which is engaged in the construction of talismans and amulets, we have nothing to do. The theoretical is divided into the lineal and dogmatic. The dogmatic is nothing more than the summary of the metaphysical doctrine taught by the Cabalist doctors. It is, in other words, the system of the Jewish philosophy.

  Albert Mackey

  Philosophy, Doctors, Two

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