- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Constructs Quotes
On ideas, frameworks, and how we build meaning.
These quotes use 'constructs' to describe how ideas and structures are built, comparing nature's atoms to a builder's bricks and describing journalism as something that constructs a temporary, implied order out of disorder. Readers can explore more in our Brain quotes.
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- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
- Glass
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as the builder of a house constructs it out of so many different kinds of things: bricks, slates, planks, panes of glass, and so on.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathematical constructs from the empirical data. If this were the whole truth, we should, when entering into a new field, introduce only such quantities as can directly be observed, and formulate natural laws only by means of these quantities.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you feel more liberated in a foreign country. You're more open. You understand less about the social constructs that exist in a certain place, so you take people more at face value, and you're also taken more at face value, which makes you more able to be yourself.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical constructs are just that: constructs.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.
- Audience
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- Nov 07, 2020
When an actor constructs reality, it has to be riveting and entertaining. There has to be an emotional connect with the audience.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Brazil, the one who wears 10 constructs the attacks. That is what I will try to do here. The number I have at Liverpool does not give me any added pressure. The pressure I have is to play well and do my best for the team. I know that I am representing a huge club, and I want to enjoy my football.
- Importance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know the importance of the number 10. In Brazil, the one who wears 10 constructs the attacks.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that contains it: its unity is variable and relative. As soon as one questions that unity, it loses its self-evidence; it indicates itself, constructs itself, only on the basis of a complex field of discourse.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.
- Nov 07, 2020
A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.
- Computational
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020