Constructed Quotes

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens

Before, After, Between

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
Helen Hayes

Life, Play, Worst

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
Albert Ellis

Depression, Largely, Therefore

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
Brian Eno

Music, Important, Lyrics

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
Charlotte Bronte

Life, Cannot, Event

But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.
David Hockney

Mean, Thinking, Place

People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.
Jeremy Renner

Life, Change, Work

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.
Norah Jones

Music, Simple, Two

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.
Gael Garcia Bernal

Human, Single, Democracy

In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.
Charlie Kaufman

Movies, Friends, Big

My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.
Arthur Smith

Boring, Keep, Few

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.
Phil Crosby

Result, Quality, Cultural

I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.
Julie Christie

Life, Peace, Mind

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
Ian Mcewan

Strength, Confidence, Building

I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.
Ai Weiwei

Experience, Joy, Speak

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.
Edward Sapir

Sacrifice, Fact, Language

Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.
Joseph Barbera

Great, Among, Glories

Life doesn't just happen; it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.
Mike Mills

Life, Work, Power

Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.
Gael Garcia Bernal

Real, Democracy, Give

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.
Clifford Geertz

Meaning, Socially

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.
Wilhelm Dilthey

Real, Thought, Reason

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.
Edward Sapir

Matter, Fact, Language

So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.
Edward Sapir

Rather, Far, Both

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.
Edward Sapir

Great, Attitude, Himself

The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.
Edward Sapir

Idea, Language, Criticism

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
Barbara Kruger

Trying, Public, Ideas

I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
Barbara Kruger

Good, Thought, Find

My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.
John Hutton

Future, Past, Progress

I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.
Michael Kors

Short, Storm, Attention

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
Dean Inge

Men, Science, Philosophy

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