People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped but guess what brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease then you've got to make a change.
A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
Advertising is a racket like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar instead of how little he can give for a dollar is bound to succeed.
In places where this beauty has already disappeared we will reconstruct it.
The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
All those involved in the construction of an architectural design from the architect to the builder have an attachment to the architecture although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up but I wasn't very good at it.
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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.
It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient more transparent and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.