Quotes About Construction

You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world

had he been only a hardworking craftsman all his life, fitting colours together as a labourer constructs a building out of stones?

What we describe as a person's "character" is built up to a considerable extent from the material of sexual excitations and is composed of instincts that have been fixed since childhood, of constructions achieved by means of sublimation, and of other constructions, employed for effectively holding in check perverse impulses which have been recognized as being unutilizable. (1905

The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.

The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.

I fully acknowledge that it is easier to knock something down than to build it in the first place. But

When you walked the dog, did you see anything unusual on the street?" Ballard asked the old woman. "Anybody out of place?" "No, nothing unusual," Lantana said. "Is there any construction on the street? Workers hanging around?

Marino Santos y sus hombres resumieron sus funciones en cinco elementos esenciales: 1. Controlar lo que se vende. 2. Controlar cómo se vende. 3. Controlar cómo se planifica. 4. Controlar cómo se construye y se instala. 5. Controlar cómo se controla. Cuando un contratista perdía de vista alguno de estos cinco puntos de control, como los llamaban Marino Santos y sus hombres, el trabajo no finalizaba como se había acordado. Eso no sería

It was not because they [Harris and Klebold] were deviants, but rather because they were overconformists to a particular normative construction of masculinity, a construction that defines violence as a legitimate response to a perceived humiliation.

some of this to a spectacular article about the construction and destruction of the World Trade Center towers by James Glanz and Eric Lipton, published in the New York Times Magazine a few days before the first anniversary of the attacks. William Poundstone's book Priceless offers a more detailed account of the sway room.

I owe some of this to a spectacular article about the construction and destruction of the World Trade Center towers by James Glanz and Eric Lipton, published in the New York Times Magazine a few days before the first anniversary of the attacks. William Poundstone's book Priceless offers a more detailed account of the sway room.

Image the whole, then execute the parts— Fancy the fabric Quite, ere you build, ere steel strike fire from quartz Ere mortar dab brick!

Give me a map and I'll build you a city.

I don't remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.

Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.

There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea.

In this business, you don't have to be an architect or an engineer or a brick layer. But you have to understand how the money flows. That you can only understand if you're on the site.

I said, 'What I'm going to do is dress as plain as humanly possible.' I'm not going to wear anything fancy, I'm not going to have fancy music, I'm not going to have fancy pyro - I'm literally just going to be a dude walking into the ring. I'm going to look like I just got off work from a construction site, and I am now punching you in the face.

Architects and food at a construction site equals indigestion. We're always looking for details that haven't been executed correctly.

If I'd lived in Bristol, I'd probably be doing building site stuff, plastering. Probably not the plastering. It would have been mixing. I could always get work from friends who did construction. But I wasn't into getting up at seven in the morning.

There have always been men of all background and ethnicities on my father's job sites. And long before it was commonplace, you also saw women.

My husband's idea of a date night somehow always involves me looking at one of his development sites.

I don't make my bed. At the end of a day of going to construction sites, the last thing I want to do is move 10 pillows off the bed.