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Tag Name "Constructed" (201)

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Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action.
Jerome Ravetz
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A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.
Eli Pariser
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I think I grew up with the idea that God was a punishing being, constructed around rules.
Jim Gaffigan
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The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird but only the hen can line it with moss and down!
Frances Power Cobbe
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Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Yoga is a removal of the conscious awareness from the world as you know it - the world that you've constructed - through your focus within your mind, to something else.
Frederick Lenz
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All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all if he was indeed the enemy.
John Knowles
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The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.
Freeman Dyson
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I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist...
Jonathan Lethem
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Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.
Joseph Barbera
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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.
Julie Christie
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Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.
Gerald Fischbach
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If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out of. No one could have made one. You could have written about possibility of one, but not have constructed it.
Ken Robinson
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It's no wonder human beings are so narcissistic. The way our ears are constructed, we can hear only what is right next to us or else the internal monologue inside.
Gretel Ehrlich
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I only choose to write about people who are alive, are extremely powerful and as such have influenced our lives. I try to go behind their constructed myths to find the humanity of the person. It takes me about four years on every book and requires hundreds of interviews so I choose people whose lives I respect and achievements are worth recording.
Kitty Kelley
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So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.
Haruki Murakami
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I'm very interested in making the photographs look real, but a lot of them are highly synthetic. They're hybrids, located somewhere between the found and the constructed.
Larry Sultan
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A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.
Hector Hugh Munro
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For me a watch is a really beautiful instrument. I don't so much care what time it is but I do love watches, and I love how they're constructed.
Lenny Kravitz
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Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do.
Henry Ward Beecher
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This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
Isaac Mayer Wise
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The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self.
Deepak Chopra
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