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“For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.”

Thinking Writing Identity Demon Constructs Inseparable Undertakings Cerebral

Author:Kathryn Harrison

“And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction of space and time and matter and energy. That that mapping is insufficient. That the world is instead some kind of a linguistic construct. It is more in the nature of a sentence, or a novel, or a work of art than it is in the nature of these machine models of interlocking law that we inherit out of a thousand years of rational reductionism.”

“Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.”

Mind Matter Can Do Generations Property Wholeness Constructs Psychics Alchemy Paradoxical Mind And Matter

Author:Terence McKenna

“Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.”

“What generations created, the Left destroys. There are few productive and noble institutions in America that the Left has not hurt or attempted to hurt. But while the Left destroys a great deal, it constructs almost nothing (outside of government agencies, laws, and lawsuits).”

Government America Law Left Hurt Deals Generations Institutions Noble Agency Productive Constructs Lawsuit Government Agencies

Author:Dennis Prager

“Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.”

World Use Teach Illusion Permanent Poetry Is Charming Nurture Constructs Comprehensive Reborn Pact

Author:Mahmoud Darwish

“Like the Bible-a document that often contradicts itself and from which one can construct sharply different arguments-theology is the product of human hands and hearts.”

Humans Heart Different Hands Products Argument Theology Documents Constructs Human Hands

Author:Jon Meacham

“As I see it every single day you do one in every of two issues: construct well being or produce illness in your self.”

Wells Two Self Issues Produce Illness Well Being Constructs

Author:Adelle Davis

“Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form... the Universe.”

Stills Form Universe Holy All Things Mysterious Constructs

Author:Albert Pike

“I reject the idea there are just two sides. I think that with the amount of ideas and thoughts there are, it's not even going to be consistent with the same person. People can hold liberal and conservative dogma points at the same time. They're not living their lives via platforms. They're living their lives. The whole thing is an awfully tired construct.”

People Thinking Persons Two Ideas Whole Sides Amount Tired Conservative Consistent Rejects Platforms Dogma Constructs Two Sides

Author:Jon Stewart

“Shamu and I have arrived safely in Costa Rica. He was stopped by airport security because he carries enough artillery in his pants pockets to construct a sawed-off shotgun. Evidently, he though we were headed to Iraq.”

Enough Security Iraq Pockets Carrie Pants Constructs Airports Artillery Shotguns Costa Rica Airport Security

Book:Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

Source: Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

“The problem with American democracy is the American corporation, which is a slave holder construct, pure and simple. It's totally invasive, and people are as tightly controlled within the walls of a corporation as they are in a totalitarian society.”

People Problem Simple Democracy Wall Pure Slave Corporations Controlled Constructs American Democracy

Author:Richard Grossman

“I was really gifted at being able to construct a joke, but it's like they weren't even memorable, my first jokes, because they were so about nothing.”

Firsts Able Jokes Memorable Gifted Constructs

Author:Wanda Sykes

“To me, photographs are like words and I generally will place many photographs together or print them one inside the other in order to construct a free-floating sentence that speaks about the world I witness.”

World Together Order Speak Photograph Sentences Witness Print Constructs Floating

Book:Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

Source: Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

“[Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to show the self as an imaginary construct. There is no real Cindy Sherman in these photographs; there are only the guises she assumes. And she does not create these guises; she simply chooses them in the way that any of us do.”

Way Doe Art Real Self Use Shows Artist Term Assuming Photograph Imaginary Reverse Autobiography True Self Constructs Guise Cindy

Author:Douglas Crimp

“Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.”

Way Different Use Form Poet Metaphor Constructs Symbolism Using Me

Author:Shirin Neshat

“The only thing I can hope the viewer will get from the work is something about the structure of the work. It would be asking too much, I think, for them to get my exact intention. But if - through the construct of language, the way things are juxtaposed - there is some sort of disruption of the way you would normally go about reaching photographic images... if that is happening, that's fine.”

Ifs Thinking Way I Can Would Be Language Too Much Fine Happenings Asking Structure Intention Reaching Working It Viewers Constructs Disruption Asking Too Much

Author:Lorna Simpson

“For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.”

Humans Chance Interesting Encounters Coincidence Constructs Chances Are Serendipity

Author:Charles Traub

“In the new alchemy, we have a similar kind of way of thinking. Our internal space includes our intuitions, our thoughts, our senses and our feelings, and from these we construct or build a picture of the outside world. From intuition and thought, we construct time. We also construct space from thought and our sensations. From our senses and our feelings, we experience energy, and from our intuitions and our feelings, we experience motion.”

Thinking World Way Kind Feelings Energy Space Intuition Senses Internals Sensations Our Thoughts Constructs Way Of Thinking Alchemy Outside World

Author:Fred Alan Wolf

“Evolution is the phenomenon of change and the challenge of the next time cycle will involve the creation of constructs that will provide the kind of dynamic knowledge base that can assist the challenges of tomorrow (involving both fundamental and extended information).”

Kind Next Challenges Information Creation Evolution Tomorrow Fundamentals Cycles Phenomenon Next Time Constructs Involving

Author:Anthony Braxton

“Men's sexuality is mean and violent, and men so powerful that they can reach WITHIN women to fvck/construct us from the inside out. Satan-like, men possess women, making their wicked fantasies and desires women's own. A woman who has sex with a man, therefore, does so against her will, even if she does not feel forced.”

Ifs Men Feels Mean Doe Desire Sex Powerful Fantasy Sexuality Violent Satan Wicked Constructs

Author:Judith Levine

“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.”

Seems Guy Masters Bigger Sci Fi Constructs Commanders Puppets Above And Beyond Puppet Master

Author:Dan Fogelman

“We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken so much trouble to construct over the years. Faced with the pain of that distance, the distance between desire and reality, we turn just for a moment and quickly busy ourselves.”

World Years Wells May Moments Reality Pain Desire Turns Imagination Creative Taken Trouble Possibility Fit Distance Busy Constructs Sabotage

Author:David Whyte

“I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an antiquated form, and there's no sense grieving. Music is forever, there will always be songs. It's exciting that we're not limited to the media any more. I don't hold a precious view of my work, that it exists outside of social constructs or the confines of a platform.”

Thinking Form Song Social Views Forever Media Music Is Exciting Grieving Platforms Constructs Cds

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a species of history, of evidence. It's a way for the way the narrator to construct a semblance of self, even though all of this creates a deception, a way to think of one's traces as a real way to define oneself. The trace is fallible, impermanent. It's one of the motives I had in mind throughout the text.”

People Thinking Way Mind Real Self Use Culture Ability Evidence Mark Notes Species Oneself Nostalgia Deception Motive Constructs Narrators Semblance

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“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.”

Firsts Art Can Do Consciousness Fiction Art Is First Time Narrative Constructs Narrative Art

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“Hence, when some members of the Iranian diaspora, especially women at the moment, use different tropes including the trope of the veil and the issue of gender to construct an image of oppression or to describe the 'silenced' Iranian woman, western intellectuals, policymakers, and publishing houses are all quick to introduce them as presenters of the authentic Iranian experience.”

Different Moments Use House Issues Members Western Including Gender Oppression Introducing Publishing Constructs Veils Iranian Diaspora Tropes Presenter Publishing House

Author:Mohammad Marandi

“It is ludicrous to believe that he meant nuclear weapons can be used. It is truly fearful to see how the mainstream media in the west can construct an adversary and that there are so few dissenting voices.”

Believe Used Voice Media Weapons West Nuclear Fearful Mainstream Nuclear Weapons Constructs Adversaries Mainstream Media

Author:Mohammad Marandi

“We don't recount our dreams; we construct them with the materials of reality. We aren't looking for God, psychic truth or authenticity, but for esthetic effect. That's why I baptized our movement Structural, or Esthetic, Onirism. Dreams and music were our models.”

Dream Reality Effects Movement Materials Models Authenticity Constructs Psychics Our Dreams Baptized

Author:Dumitru Tepeneag

“I'm more interested in the psychic intricacies that they build up and try to run away from, and how they self-construct. A lot of my work is about self-construction. Here, it's those folks who are deeply wounded and bewildered. They're not just victims of trauma; they've been shaken so forcefully that they don't quite know how or where to stand.”

Knows Trying Self Running Know How Victim Folks Trauma Construction Running Away Wounded Constructs Psychics Bewildered Intricacy

Author:Chang-Rae Lee

“Leaders are not modest, and more importantly, the extensive social science research on narcissism, self-promotion, and similar constructs shows that these qualities and behaviors are useful for getting hired, achieving promotions, keeping one's job, and obtaining a higher salary.”

Self Shows Jobs Social Quality Leader Achieve Higher Behavior Research Narcissism Modest Constructs Promotion Salary Obtaining Social Science Self Promotion Science Research

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“I was also thinking about isolation on an evolutionary scale as well, like when you think of an island like Madagascar where things are free to evolve unfettered by outside powers. That starts to reach into the underlying narrative, which is more of a literal story that I used as a construct to build songs around.”

Thinking Wells Stories Used Song Scales Evolve Narrative Islands Isolation Constructs Literal Madagascar

Author:Colin Stetson

“It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses.”

Reality Political Philosophical Response Practicals Constructs

Author:Jimenez Lai

“But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are or not, we do it naturally. So the way we construct our narrative is different from the way we constructed it a year ago. The difference is maybe very small or it may be huge.”

People Way Want Years May Ideas Different Differences Huge Years Ago Narrative Who We Are Constructs Different Ideas

Author:Antonio Damasio

“A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that my childhood is very alive inside of me, very close to me, very much part of me. And it's a sometimes painful, sometimes joyous inexhaustible resource for poetry.”

Feels Sometimes Certain Emotion Alive Childhood Resources Who You Are Painful Constructs Joyous

Author:Edward Hirsch

“I like to photograph miniature constructed scenes - I'll buy a very sad cake decoration like a plastic computer for a dreary office birthday party and construct a wildly colorful scene to put on its screen, or do a series of dollhouse chairs frozen in ice cubes.”

Party Scene Office Computer Series Photograph Screens Ice Chairs Cake Plastic Constructs Frozen Colorful Decoration Dreary Very Sad Cubes Miniatures Birthday Party Dollhouses

Author:Matthea Harvey

“He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things. My mother, likewise, was sewing and doing activities that often take place in a household.”

Knows Mother Father Activity Household Constructs Basements Workshops Sewing

Author:Paul Smith

“Rock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it's really what helped bring the anti-war movement to its peak and moved people into the streets to seize the day - the movement was the embodiment of what was happening in the music. This is what taught me that it was possible to bring art and activism together. Without that piece, that energetic embodiment piece, the rest is just intellectual construct.”

“You know how they say, "Find your voice"? That's your voice, in your pajamas. And it doesn't mean that you're going to publish it or print it or people are going to see you in your pajamas. It just means you are going to construct the foundation in your pajamas, in that voice.”

People Knows Mean Voice Know How Foundation Print Constructs Publish Pajamas

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.”

Knows Ideas Play Character Happens Deals Environment Constructs Thesis

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“The story goes that every Jedi constructs his own lightsaber, and every penmonkey constructs his own pen. Meaning, we all find our own way through this crazy tangle of possibility. This isn't an art, a craft, a career, or an obsession that comes with easy answers and isn't given over to bullshit dichotomies. We do what we do in the way we do it and hope it's right. Read advice. Weigh it in your hand and determine its value. But at the end of the day - and at the start of it - what you should be doing is writing. Because thinking about writing and talking about writing just plain isn't writing.”

“Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.”

Stories Powerful Quality Source Illusion Determined Constructs Validity Coherence Overconfidence

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality.”

People Ifs Feels Wells Stories Reality Simple Constructs Grounded

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“If someone does a study which, for statistical reasons, I think is hopelessly underpowered or nonidentified, my best and most useful advice will not be tips on how to calculate p-values better, or how to construct an explanation for some particular data pattern. Rather, my advice will be to start over, to reconsider what you think you already know, maybe to question some prominent work in your subfield, and quite possibly to think a lot harder about measurement, and about the relation of your data to your underlying constructs of interest.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Doe Reason Values Interest Study Advice Particular Harder Relation Patterns Data Explanation Constructs Starting Over Measurement Prominent

Author:Andrew Gelman

“I look at the most promising putative moral theories. I construct crucial thought experiments in areas where they give conflicting advice. I confront their conflicting advice with my own moral sensitivity, my moral intuition. I take the theory that can best explain the content of my intuitions as gaining inductive support through an inference to the best explanation.”

Giving Looks My Own Moral Support Advice Theory Areas Intuition Experiments Explanation Crucial Sensitivity Constructs Inference

Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo

“Climate scientists think of nothing but climate and then express their concerns in terms of constructs such as global mean surface temperature. But we live in a world in which all sorts of change is happening all the time, and the only way to understand what climate change will bring is to tell stories about how it manifests in people's lives.”

People Thinking World Way Mean Stories Term Happenings Concern Scientist Climate Climate Change Surface Constructs Temperature

Author:Dale Jamieson

“The multiverse as a real physical construct within physics overlapping with a more mystical understanding of many possible worlds - the notion of there being a root down at the quantum level between intention and reality, between consciousness and existence - it's not a matter of trying to explain the mystery of magic away with a pat mechanism of a pseudoscience, it's just a matter of trying to ground it in a domain.”

“I think every writer has their waves of inspiration and their ways of doing things. But writing is very difficult for me. It's something I haven't practiced as diligently as my visual art. I've been doing visual art because I think it's easier for me to construct, whereas words are very difficult.”

Thinking Way Writing Art Inspiration Difficult Havens Easier Art Is Wave Visuals Constructs Visual Art

Author:Chath Piersath

“Here's an easy one: "Race is an entirely social construct." No, it's partially one, depending on how any given society seeks to define it and its implications. But there are basic things such as skin color and hair texture. Even a Martian who'd had no exposure to human "social constructs" would be able to spot those differences. But no Martian, as hard as he tried, could point at a "culture" or to "equality." Those are the social constructs. Those can't be measured in the same way as human DNA.”

Way Humans Hard Would Be Able Culture Given Social Easy Differences Race Color Hair Skins Spots Constructs Dna Exposure Implications Texture Skin Color Martians Basic Things

Author:Jim Goad

“One struggles always with these norms. So one doesn't construct oneself freely without respect to norm but one works with one's historical situation and sees where there might be some play. Where there might be some freedom to move.”

Play Might Moving Situation Struggle Historical Oneself Constructs Norm

Author:Judith Butler

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