Construction Quotes - Page 22

• Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China.

  Peter Welch

  Stars, Jobs, Home

  "Creating Jobs by Investing in Energy Efficiency" by Peter Welch, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2010.

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• What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

  Peter Zumthor

  Art, Trying, Shapes

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• One metric catches people. We prefer businesses that drown in cash. An example of a different business is construction equipment. You work hard all year and there is your profit sitting in the yard. We avoid businesses like that. We prefer those that can write us a check at the end of the year.

  Charlie Munger

  Writing, Hard Work, Years

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• Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Philosophical, Imagination, Age

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1795 - 1822.

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• We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of the huge and glorious final humanity

  Jean Vanier

  Humanity, Important, Finals

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.152, Paulist Press

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• 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.

  Zadie Smith

  Rose, Political, Accumulation

  "On Beauty". Book by Zadie Smith, 2005.

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• The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Philosophical, Islamic, Doubt

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• If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

  Bridget Moynahan

  Mom, Father, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, Bricks And Mortar, Topography

  "Alan Moore Gets Psychogeographical With Unearthing". Interview With Scott Thill, www.wired.com. August 9, 2010.

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

  Eartha Kitt

  Construction Workers, Used, Streets

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• My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Mother, Father, Engineers

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• There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Country, Government, Bridges

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• To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

  William James

  Elements, Radical, Empiricism

  William James (1976). “Essays in Radical Empiricism”, p.22, Harvard University Press

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• In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money… and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn’t very good at it.

  Adam Carolla

  Nice, Dirty, Naughty

  Interview with Ariel Adams, www.askmen.com. November 3, 2010.

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• If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages, but with lower educational requirements. And America's infrastructure needs are enormous.

  Christina Romer

  Educational, America, Goal

  "Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment?" by Christina Romer, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2012.

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• I get just as excited about building a birdhouse as when providing strategic counsel to a client.

  Robert L. Peters

  Clients, Excited, Building

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• Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Two, Effort, Meditation

  "How Doing Nothing Can Help You Truly Live" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2010.

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

  Matt Taibbi

  Way, Corruption, Has Beens

  "The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. June 21, 2012.

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• Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophical, Reason, Knowledge Gained

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.329, Read Books Ltd

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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, Construction Workers, Design

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• 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.

  Karl Marx

  House, Process, Speculation

  Karl Marx (1997). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: .. Karl Marx: Capital vol.II”

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• To mystify, in the active sense, is to befuddle, cloud, obscure, mask whatever is going on, whether this be experience, action, or process, or whatever is "the issue." It induces confusion in the sense that there is failure to see what is "really" being experienced, or being done, or going on, and failure to distinguish or discriminate the actual issues. This entails the substitution of false for true constructions of what is being experienced, being done (praxis), or going on (process), and the substitution of false issues for the actual issues.

  R. D. Laing

  Clouds, Issues, Confusion

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• In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.

  Sun Yat-sen

  Country, Difficult, Idealist

  "Chung-shan Ch'üan-shu (Zhongshan Quanshu), vol. II". Book by Sun Yat-sen, 1936.

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• When you advance a frontier, you're doing something that no one has done before. Every time that happens, you have to innovate. You have to think in new ways that hadn't been thought before. You have to invent a new piece of hardware, a new concept, a new law of physics, a new material, a new construction material to enable you to accomplish what it is that you chose to reach for by dreaming about tomorrow.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dream, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.

  Adam Savage

  Light, Magic, Details

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