My Top 106 Meaningful Quotes for CSCS – Part 2
57. 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)
58. I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle. (Eartha Kitt)
59. My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer. (Mikhail Khodorkovsky)
60. On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism. (Robert Delaunay)
61. So, if you’re doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It’s really the roles you give yourself. (Amy Poehler)
62. The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science. (David Hilbert)
63. The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. (Jacques Chirac)
64. At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% – 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time. (Roger Staubach)
65. In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn’t have customers without the people who oversee construction. (Roger Staubach)
66. The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong. (Tariq Ramadan)
67. If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that’s broken apart, I think that’s probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area. (Bridget Moynahan)
68. The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. (Walter Benjamin)
69. The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of three details: fabric, construction, and fit. If the suit fits you like a glove and it’s well made, you simply feel better about everything in life when you’re wearing it. (Paul Feig)
70. Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business. (Bill Rancic)
71. The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway. (Rachel Maddow)
72. Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world? (Jim Bakker)
73. Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that’s important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture – the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail. (Steven Holl)
74. The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes. (Spencer Bachus)
75. We’ve advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America… What’s needed now is less rhetoric and more action. (Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva)
76. I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today. (Isambard K. Brunel)
77. Less is more. I truly believe in buying a few pieces with better construction. (Stacy London)
78. I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that’s in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that’s why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I’m really interested in that subject. (Sam Raimi)
79. I want to open my own yoga studio. Planning construction and looking at properties is fun. (Nina Dobrev)
80. The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and – and – or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans? (David Plouffe)
81. But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding. (Marc Bloch)
82. I come from a long line of architects. I’m the only one who did not become an architect, but I’ve been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life. (Kym Whitley)
83. You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words. (Nigel Rees)
84. To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it. (Abdullah of Saudi Arabia)
85. I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development. (Nico Tortorella)
86. Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance. (Keith Ellison)
87. I don’t think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it’s more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on. (Alan Moore)
88. I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like. (Don DeLillo)
89. Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds. (Elfriede Jelinek)
90. There’s something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There’s definitely a built-in sexism across the board, but I think you’re afforded a degree of freedom in rock because, historically, the rules have been flexible. (Amanda Palmer)
91. The increase in salaries at private companies has exploded, and Romania also faces a labor shortage, especially in construction. We believe that the Romanian market will remain an incentive, so that migration will not be an issue. (Traian Basescu)
92. I think the idea of the social construction of beauty – this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is – is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there’s also a natural response people have to it. (Denis Dutton)
93. Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process. (Marilyn vos Savant)
94. Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way. (Matt Taibbi)
95. The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place. (Sylvia Earle)
96. I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I’m really bad in terms of construction. I can’t do any of it on my own. (Nate Berkus)
97. It’s estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created. (Dennis Hastert)
98. I can always go back to construction. That’s great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand. (Benjamin Walker)
99. We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette. (Ed Markey)
100. I’ve been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since 2005. I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems. (Tony Fadell)
101. The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly. (Gianni Agnelli)
102. Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction. (Jo Nesbo)
103. I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants. (Jeff Miller)
104. Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps. (Niklaus Wirth)
105. What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing – the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up. (Barbara Kruger)
106. I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man’s intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong. (Morarji Desai)
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