Best Construct Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Confidence is so important, and that's entirely a mental construct.”

“I wish Americans understood that race is a social construct, even if we don't want it to be.”

“People spend their entire lives trying to construct something to grab onto: a family, a home, a business. Rarely does anyone seem to manage to get much ground under their feet.”

“Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.”

“We could construct a machine that is more intelligent than we can understand. It's possible Google is that kind of thing already. It scales so fast.”

“We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.”

“I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.”

“It's time for us to work together to construct a Haiti that will make our forefathers proud.”

“You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.”

“When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.”

“When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.”

“Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.”

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

“The players dictate the way you play. Especially players who score goals because they are extremely important for a team. You construct your team around them.”

“'Fade To Black' - just this amazing construct: a song that defied the definition of what Metallica was perceived to be at the time.”

“For me, religion is a political construct, and spirituality is a community construct, and there's a real difference.”

“We are excited for the partnership between the Summa Group, the Russian government, and Hyperloop One to construct a Hyperloop in Moscow.”

“I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.”

“The gender thing doesn't exist; it's a social construct you don't have to fit into.”

“With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.”

“I think that, in America, even though race is a social construct, I mean, we say this in theory, but I think a lot of people don't believe that it really is. And so it's still a very racialized society.”

“If we are ever going to fix our housing affordability crisis, we have to make significant changes to how we plan and construct, and we have to be open to solutions that make it easier and faster to build much-needed housing.”

“A story is how we construct our experiences.”

“I try and construct the music in a way that stuff that doesn't make sense on the first listen will make sense on like the fifth listen. And then there's other stuff that will make more sense that you didn't hear before on the next listen.”

“Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.”

“We are starting to see more and more Roblox games that offer creation. An example would be Theme Park Tycoon, which lets anyone construct a theme park on any device. You get to build roller coasters and theme parks, your work is saved, and when you come back, you can keep working on your creation.”

“I think, for myself, as an artist, the progression is a lyrical progression and what I choose to target my lyrics at and how I construct the rhymes.”

“We are the heirs of a long and proud tradition far older and more substantial than the supranational construct of Messrs Monnet and Delors.”

“If you build a 70,000-seat stadium it will cost much more than double to build than a 35,000-seater. The higher the seat the more expensive it is to construct.”

“I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.”

“As a young actor, I would be invited to the CBC radio drama department to do voices for different characters, and I found that I could do quite a few of them. I wasn't a visual presence, and I found it easier to construct a voice from the written page.”

“If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.”

“With 'Midnight Special,' the sound was used as a narrative construct. The audience is looking in one direction when a sound suddenly erupts from the other direction.”

“It might be the history major in me, but I look to the past when I try to construct my fictional futures.”

“Corporations and financiers have used their growing influence to induce governments and international organizations to construct a global framework of institutions and regulations that enable elites to maximize their rental income.”

“If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the construct.”

“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.”

“I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.”

“For me, the single most important question is how to construct a society that is just, safe, peaceful - all those good things - when people finally accept that there is no free will.”

“Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and can only write diary entries.”

“We are in a phase of democratization. We are constructing a democracy. We cannot construct a democracy with irritants.”

“I think I have a sound or a certain feel in certain harmonies in the way I construct melodies.”

“Passion isn't something you work on. It's more important to construct a good team, to know how you are going to play, how to read the match. You have to truly understand the game.”

“As I get older, I'm sort of fascinated with the idea of somebody who could construct an entire persona for themselves - one that was really, in a lot of ways, fundamentally at odds with who they really were as a person.”

“Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.”

“Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.”

“There is a little bit of me in every part I do... I'm not really good enough to completely construct an all-new character.”

“These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test.”

“What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.”

“I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.”

“I'm of the opinion that gender is a social construct.”

“If someone is lying to you, they'll generally look up to the top right. That means that they're trying to construct an image that doesn't exist.”

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

“The games I'm playing have much more to do with using the language of power and the vocabulary of power to construct new sentences. It's about pointing to empire and control and domination and misogyny and all those social ills in the work, but it's not necessarily taking a position. Oftentimes, it's actually embodying it.”

“Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.”

“The entire global 'Human Rights' framework, rooted in the 1951 U.N. Refugee Convention and made up of nebulous NGOs and institutions, is a construct of an earlier era.”

“The whole point here, and the seed that JJ Abrams laid in my mind is, is the power of curiosity enough? What happens next? That dramatic construct is what has driven soap operas and serialised novels over the course of history.”

“Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.”

“People don't think I can construct a sentence, let alone write a script.”

“When I was writing my first novel, 'Elizabeth is Missing,' I was writing the only novel I had ever written and writing about the only protagonist I'd ever written about. Because of this, I didn't think of her as a construct. Maud was real.”

“The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.”

“You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.”

“Rappers should sit down and construct quality lines.”

“It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.”

“Religion is an irrational construct.”

“I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.”

“Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.”

“Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.”