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  • We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that, like virtually every public construct, is a legacy of a primordial and tribal mentality.

    Jamake Highwater (1997). “The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.

    Neil Gaiman (2015). “Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances”, p.8, Harper Collins
  • 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.

  • . . . it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two other reasons. One is to construct an ideal goal, so that incremental changes can be judged by whether they move the institutional structure toward or away from that ideal. The other reason is very different. It is so that if a crisis requiring or facilitating radical change does arise, alternatives will be available that have been carefully developed and fully explored.

    Change   Moving   Two  
    Milton Friedman, Kurt R. Leube (1987). “The essence of Friedman”, Hoover Inst Pr
  • I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say - Yes; and act like other people.

    People   Feelings   World  
  • Positions are just a social construct that mean nothing to the enlightened man.

    Mean   Men   Enlightened  
  • Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it-whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night.

    Stars   Night   Men  
  • What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

    Kids   Stories   Littles  
  • When something like this [2003 invasion of Iraq] takes place, the international law professionals have a complicated task. There is a fringe that just tells the truth: Look, it's a violation of international law. But most have to construct complex arguments to justify it as defense counsel. That's basically their job, defense counsel for state power.

    Jobs   Law   Iraq  
    Source: progressive.org
  • Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work.

  • It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen. They must be constructed....To demonstrate any formal idea in music, whether structure or stricture, is a matter of construction, in which the methodology is the controlling metaphor of the composition...Only by 'unfixing' the elements traditionally used to construct a piece of music could the sounds exist in themselves--not as symbols, or memories which were memories of other music to begin with.

    Music   Memories   Ideas  
    "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music" by Richard Kostelanetz, Joseph Darby, 1996.
  • Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.

    "The Ground Beneath Her Feet". Book by Salman Rushdie, April, 1999.
  • A story is how we construct our experiences.

  • The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.

  • Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints.

    "Social Psychology of Organizing". Book by Karl E. Weick, p. 243, 1979.
  • Magicians are manipulating your consciousness. They are showing you something impossible. They're getting you to construct a narrative, which simply isn't true. So that means they know how to make you aware of certain things and blind to other things. What I'm hoping is that magic, this entertainment vehicle that has been around for a long time, will give us a real insight into the deep mysteries of consciousness

    Real   Mean   Long  
  • What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.

    Art   Narrative   Firsts  
    "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.
  • Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

    Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.19, Infobase Publishing
  • I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.

    Hero   Loss   Thinking  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.

    Mistake   Men   Order  
    May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.96, Open Road Media
  • one must find one's natural home, not try to construct it.

    Home   Trying   Natural  
    Nancy Hale (1988). “The Prodigal Women”, Plume
  • 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.

    Source: newrepublic.com
  • I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a bit of a roller coaster ride...

    People   Plot   Pages  
    "The Curiously Irresistible Literary Debut of Mark Haddon". PowellsBooks Interview, www.powells.com. October 10, 2006.
  • There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with whom we feel we have unfinished business. While they may no longer be with us, a faint aroma of their presence remains, a presence that haunts us until we make our peace with them and let them go. The problem, however, is that we tend to spend a great deal of energy in attempting to avoid the truth. We construct an image of ourselves that seeks to shield us from a confrontation with our ghosts. Hence we often encounter them only late at night, in the corridors of our dreams.

    Dream   Memories   Night  
  • My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.

    Ambition   Giving   Alive  
  • I'd always thought that, in all the great sci-fi constructs, there's always the guy who seems like he's the commander, but then you reveal that there's an even bigger puppet master up above and beyond him.

    "The Neighbors' Dan Fogelman on turning a critical flop into 'an unstoppable beast'". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. January 02, 2013.
  • Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures and then we look at them later and we say, 'Isn't this a great family?' So photography is instrumental in creating family not only as a memento, a souvenir, but also a kind of mythology.

  • I don't really deal with the attention I receive to be honest. I build up a fantasy world around me that I inhabit. I cherry pick elements of literature, music, film, history and art, then weave them together to construct a fantasy reality to live in. It doesn't always work out though, I got evicted from my own fantasy once, which was quite embarrassing.

  • If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.

    Easy   Constructs   Ifs  
  • To construct a scientific theory from the data and to be able to recognize that it is a reasonable theory is possible only if there are some very sharp restrictive principles that lead you to go in one direction and not in another direction. Otherwise, you wouldn't have science at all, merely randomly chosen hypotheses.

    Source: chomsky.info
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