#construct

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#construction #did #i #jobs #just

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#method #reconstruction #science #science fiction

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#combinations #consists #constructing #infinite #invention

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#age #cannot #character #construct #cosmic

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

— Prince

#mind #real #time

I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives. ↗

— Henry Reed

#constructive #demonstrate #dreams #first #i

It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life. ↗

— Henry Reed

#changes #constructive #dream #dreams #easier

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#fabric #his #leisure #lives #man

I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem. ↗

— Tabare Vazquez

#being #construction #convictions #i #invite

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#character #constructing #constructs #her #his