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What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life. -- Dorothy Allison
I will Construct thyself in a box & challenge thyself to jump out of it...... -- Wilson M Rubaihayo
Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them! -- Richard Koch
Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack. -- Paul J. Meyer
Construct your life plans before satan attempts to destruct you with his death plots. I know this for sure; he is not in to heal! He just came to kill, to steal and destroy! Satan is not wise, it is only crafty! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Depression is the inability to construct a future. -- Rollo May
If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct. -- Leo Fender
Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact. -- Noam Chomsky
Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct. -- Bethany McLean
Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it. -- Ryan Adams
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning. -- Anselm Kiefer
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We could construct a machine that is more intelligent than we can understand. It's possible Google is that kind of thing already. It scales so fast. -- George Dyson
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. -- Norman Douglas
Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster. -- Bill Toomey
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory. -- Dan Chaon
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread. -- Paul Auster
I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life. -- Anne Carson
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history. -- John Polkinghorne
The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs. -- Alfred P. Sloan
I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time. -- Bill Bryson
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. -- Saint Augustine
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way. -- Milton Friedman
I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea. -- Milton Avery
No one is better placed or more philosophically suited than Obama to construct the new counter narrative as we go forward in our new New Deal. But many masters of the old universe, including quite possibly his chief economic adviser, can't recognize that the world has changed or should change. -- Frank Rich
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order. -- Jonathan Sacks
There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring. -- John Maeda
The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people. -- Peter T. King
Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds. -- Doris Lessing
There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge. -- Walter Murch
Religion is an irrational construct. -- Michel Onfray
Great towers take time to construct. -- Herman Melville
Time is a mind construct. It's not real. -- Prince
A story is how we construct our experiences. -- Doris Lessing
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom. -- Bernard Malamud
To know the world, one must construct it -- Cesare Pavese
Gender is a social construct, but everyone likes to cuddle. -- Danielle Henderson
Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe. -- Rene Descartes
Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self. -- Sigmund Freud
one must find one's natural home, not try to construct it. -- Nancy Hale
Reality is a construct. You are what you think you are. -- Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world. -- Gustav Mahler
In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world. -- Peter Drucker
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it! -- Immanuel Kant
Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways. -- Tayari Jones
Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place. -- John C. Maxwell
Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future. -- Charles Capps
We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing. -- Paul Klee
Effort and hard work construct the bridge that connects your dreams to reality. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Positions are just a social construct that mean nothing to the enlightened man. -- Manuel Neuer
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap. -- Albert Einstein
You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it. -- Jerry Stahl
The construct of a dashboard, first of all should be drafted by the founder. -- Keith Rabois
of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is / a construct -- Charles Olson
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. -- Dennis Potter
You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism. -- Tim Hetherington
We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture. -- David Bayles
Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that. -- John F. Kennedy
Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves. -- Sheena Iyengar
... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct. -- Samuel Florman
I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law. -- David Remnick
I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas. -- Tobias Lindholm
Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others. -- Philip K. Dick
The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things. -- Albert Einstein
All theatre, by virtue of its being a cultural construct and therefore ideologically inscribed, is political. -- Mark S. Weinberg
When humanity stops confusing the construct with the Kingdom - we'll begin to recognize the Truth. -- Dana Gore
I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things. -- Julie Christie
Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome. -- Gautama Buddha
The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct. -- Timothy Leary
For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters. -- Charles Traub
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. -- J. W. N. Sullivan
I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me. -- Elon Musk
The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe. -- Dave Barry
Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct. -- Guido Molinari
Itâ??s a beauty one isnâ??t born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice. -- Leslie Feinberg
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. -- Simone Weil
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. -- Simone Weil
Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner. -- Sherman Alexie
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality. -- Immanuel Kant
My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry. -- Vilfredo Pareto
I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come. -- John Burns
Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that -- Claude Lanzmann
I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own. -- Boyd Holbrook
It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist. -- Louis de Broglie
My first lessons in comedy, how to construct a joke, I learned from Eileen Brennan, who had unbelievable timing. -- Rob Lowe
It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience. -- Gregory Crewdson
If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air. -- Larry Constantine
I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes. -- Paul Scheuring
Virtual reality might be able to give you a way of doing hands-on to construct ideas in a computer. -- Owsley Stanley
But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there are none. -- David Cronenberg
There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas. -- Heinrich Mann
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. -- W. Somerset Maugham
In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense. -- Kate Atkinson
What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories. -- Henry Louis Gates
What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration. -- Kerry James Marshall
I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them. -- Alexander McQueen
What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist. -- Michael Moore
I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in. -- Colleen Atwood
When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person. -- John Sergeant Wise
It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses. -- Jimenez Lai
A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories. -- Mark Rubinstein
Spirituality can not be separate from how we treat our bodies, construct our lifestyles, and keep our energy at higher levels. -- James Redfield
If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields. -- Stephen Jay Gould
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life -- David Attenborough
While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments. -- Paul Laseau
No construct on earth will stand, that does not stand for the least among them, as their advocate and humble servant. -- Bryant McGill
You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job. -- Pascal Bruckner
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. -- Kurt Vonnegut
A brand is an emotional construct. It helps you to project an image to the world which you'd like to own. -- Martin Lindstrom
If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality. -- Daniel Kahneman
...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct. -- Mark Steyn
Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence. -- Erwin Schrodinger
I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I dont believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it. -- Lisa Unger

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