Quotes About Construct

You have your assigned sex but gender is more of a construct and I think one that is incredibly disillusioning and I think when we buy into those constructs then we start to maybe, unbeknownst to ourselves, cause real damage to our psyches.

and what fantasy can there possibly be in misery? You sense that it will at length grow weary, that it is exhausting itself in constant tension, this inexhaustible fantasy, because after all one matures, outgrows one's former ideals; they are shattered into dust and fragments; and if you have no other life, it behoves you to construct one from those same fragments.

In my executive advising role, my persona, which seems to work very well with both women and men, is being 'the big brother you always wanted.' I am fortunate to have two such big brothers, so this isn't just a theoretical construct.

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

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

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

The Egyptian was the reverse of a theorist or mere thinker. He wanted to perceive with his senses how the soul took its way from the dead body into higher realms - he wanted to have this constructed before him.

History is a construct...Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still there are definitive moments...We can look at these events and say that after them things were never the same again.

Because we have no history I construct one for you making use of what there is, parts of other people's lives, paragraphs I invent, now and then an object, a watch, a picture you claim as yours

Time is a mind construct. It's not real.

this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.

The American political system was not born a democracy, but born with a bias against democracy. It was constructed by those who were either skeptical about democracy or hostile to it. Democratic advance proved to be slow, uphill, forever incomplete.

It had fallen far, this construct. Literally and figuratively. And so had he.

The past is a tyrant and it won't allow my family to come back to me. But the present generously lifts my downcast face and makes me see that, although I can't change what I was, I can construct what I will be.

what we call the world is a product of some mind whose symbolic procedures construct the world."71

There are those who would find my call for the study of intersectionality as 'old hat', the recitation of a 'mantra'. I would remind them that mantras are designed for repetition precisely because each repetitive act is expected to construct new meanings.

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.

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.

I think 'Mudbound' reveals the interconnectiveness of our stories. You can't separate out threads of history and race as economic construct. 'Mudbound' makes it very plain. Race is about commerce; it's not an actual thing. It's a fiction that was created to basically divide resources unequally.

I respect your intelligence too much to construct a narrative that might convince you of a reality far from the truth." Mr.

SAMUEL DELANY'S DHALGREN IS a prose-city, a labyrinth, a vast construct the reader learns to enter by any one of a multiplicity of doors.

the Mohaves were highly nationalistic, their sense of patriotism had always been more a mental than a territorial construct—one that would soon be tested.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.