Construction Quotes
Construction Quote of the day
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.
We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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.
Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.
In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.
I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.
Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.
All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.
All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order
Girls learn to love and have sexual feelings in a position of low status, and the eroticization of powerlessness is a normal part of the construction of femininity.
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.
Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.
Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.
Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.
The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
I was walking down the street the other day and these construction workers were working on the roof hammering away. One of them told me I was a paranoid lunatic... in morse code.
In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.
We shall find the abstract equivalent for all forms & elements in the universe, then we shall combine them in sculptural constructions according to the mood of our inspiration.
I’ve worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.
The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.
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.
I always expected to be working construction with my family, so every day I get to travel the world and have fun with my friends is a bonus. I really enjoy pushing myself and so does my wife.
Kino-Eye uses every possible means in montage, comparing and linking all points of the universe in any temporal order, breaking, when necessary, all the laws and conventions of film construction.
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.
The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.
The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.
So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of armaments. Many, many young people are in despair because of the danger.
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket - The road to success is always under construction
I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.
The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.
