Construction Quotes - Page 5

• No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

  Gus Van Sant

  Stress, Addiction, Heroin

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• I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Real, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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

  Peter Brook

  Drama, Understanding, Theatre

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• Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all.

  Max Euwe

  Real, Long, Preparation

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• Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Granitarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  House, Passing Away, Meat

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.475, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We always look at the 'Fortune ,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Glasses, Safety

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• One whose soul does not wander in the expanses, one who does not seek the light of truth and goodness with all his heart, does not suffer spiritual ruins - but he will also not have his own self-based constructions. Instead, he takes shelter in the shadow of the natural constructions, like rabbits under boulders. But one who has a human soul cannot take shelter in anything other than constructions that he builds with his own spiritual toil.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Spiritual, Heart, Light

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• The difficult tasks to be performed are not the ones that mean physical and mental labor, but the ones that you dislike, are the ones that you do not love. There are unpleasant angles to nearly every important job to be done in this world, but there must be an over all love for doing each, else precious time and effort are uselessly wasted. I shall never forget noting a sign above a construction job that read: "Builder of Difficult Foundations." That man must have loved that calling, else he would not have made a point of advertising the fact!

  George Matthew Adams

  Love, Jobs, Mean

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• Previous to this time I had never even a balloon except from a distance. Being interested in their construction, I was about to institute a thorough examination of all its parts, when the aeronaut announced that all was ready. He inquired whether I desired to go up alone, or he should accompany me. My desire, if frankly expressed, would have been not to go up at all; but if I was to go, company was certainly desirable. With an attempt at indifference, I intimated that he might go along.

  George Armstrong Custer

  Distance, Desire, Might

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• So yes, I'm trying to think about the connections between politics and poetry. There's an awful lot you could say here.Poetics is a form of poesis, a form of production-construction, but there might be ways of conceiving of that in a much more interesting manner. That's what I'm thinking about at the moment.

  Simon Critchley

  Thinking, Interesting, Trying

  "Demand Everything! An Interview With Philosopher Simon Critchley". Interview with Anders Gullestad, www.truth-out.org. May 15, 2010.

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• Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs.

  David Gelernter

  Powerful, Real, Learning

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• At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.

  Kim Cattrall

  Roles, Basics

  "Samantha Who?". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. April 13, 2011.

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• There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mirrors, People, Monsters

  "Question time" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2003.

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• Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition. It may look like a casual and even random calling up of bygone events. It's not; it's a deliberate construction.

  William Zinsser

  Events, Looks, Calling

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• I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.

  Jules Verne

  Engineering, Skills, Romance

  Jules Verne (2013). “Invasion of the Sea”, p.209, Wesleyan University Press

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• Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion. Selecting this development as my first major construction project has been a simple decision. It will underpin not only my values for environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment

  Brad Pitt

  Passion, Simple, Construction Projects

  "Rosie says 'View' producers threatened lawsuit". www.today.com. June 4, 2008.

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• Building Code changes to mid-rise wood construction will give builders and the public even safer, more flexible building options. Our made-in-Ontario model for mid-rise wood provides the highest requirements for fire safety in Canada.

  Ted McMeekin

  Fire, Safety, Giving

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• The number of unfinished construction projects has increased significantly. A lot of these are not covered with any security

  Tatyana Golikova

  Construction Projects, Numbers, Unfinished

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• If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of agony and death - the modes of aggression and defence, the raising of armies, and the acquirement of those arts of tyranny and falsehood without which mixed multitudes could neither be led nor governed - had been employed to promote the true welfare and extend the real empire of man, how different would have been the present situation of human society!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Art, Real, Army

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.269

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• Me and my family growing up, we cleared our land built our homes and all that. So, I was very well knowledgeable in the construction world. That turned into a commercial development company and construction company.

  Drew Waters

  Growing Up, Home, Land

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The problem was with construction and retail, you have to be able to shut things off at night and spend quality time with yourself and family. I couldn't do it. I knew that I wasn't going to be able to give 100% to my passion if I held on to them.

  Drew Waters

  Passion, Night, Giving

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket -
  
  The road to success is always under construction

  Lily Tomlin

  Hands, Pockets, Ladders

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• Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.

  Paul Hawken

  Loss, Men, Erosion

  "Capital Gains". www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it together, and, at the right moment, communicate it to him. Psychoanalysis was then first and foremost an art of interpreting. Since this did not solve the therapeutic problem, a further aim quickly came in view: to oblige the patient to confirm the analyst's construction from his own memory.

  Sigmund Freud

  Art, Memories, Views

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• Ultimately, I know what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. I'm trying to be a construction worker. I'm trying to make things. If people are not interested in that, fine. I just don't give a damn.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Giving, Trying

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