Construct Quotes

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

The thing that is believed is a reality.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

The me you see on stage is largely a construct, based on me at my worst, my most annoying, my most petty, and my most patronizing.

It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful it is marvelously ineffable.

To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total construct. For one thing, she had a made-over accent.

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

The real truths are those that can be invented.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

We shall now proceed to construct the socialist order.

Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.

Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.

I don't think you can contrive any sound.

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.

Religion is an irrational construct.

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward the imagination: it becomes a mental construct, a model of a possible way of interpreting experience. The further it goes in this direction, the more it tends to speak the language of mathematics, which is really one of the languages of the imagination, along with literature and music. Art, on the other hand, begins with the world we construct, not with the world we see. It starts with the imagination, and then works toward ordinary experience.

They want to create rather than decimate.

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions. Smoke and mirrors.

My iPhone background says, 'If you build it, they'll come.' You know, quality over quantity. And I really live by that.

['John F. Kennedy] movie is based on a massive best-selling book, which is always helpful. And then the script was amazing and answered my question, "Why this? Why now?" And the "why now" is that it's 50 years since the assassination, and the country needs to have and will have a conversation about that. And the "why this" is the construct, which I think is sort of ingenious.

I'd been taking things apart and inventing things since I was a little kid… I still have memories as a child trying to really understand how things work.