{"quotes":[{"text":"When I saw how many people were objecting to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope atop Mauna Kea, I realized that there needed to be an open and honest discussion about the toxicity of the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit and the health and safety issues of astronomical observatories.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["altitude","astronomy","construction","health","kea","mauna","osha","safety","telescope","toxic"],"id":1326,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that the simplicity it displays has been hard won, that it flows from the resolution of demanding technical or natural predicament. Thus we call the Shaker staircase in Pleasant Hill elegant because we know--without ever having constructed one ourselves--that a staircase is a site complexity, and that combinations of treads, risers and banisters rarely approach the sober intelligibility of the Sharkers' work. We deem a modern Swiss house elegant because we not how seamlessly its windows have been joined to their concrete walls, and how neatly the usual clutter of construction has been resolved away. We admire starkly simple works that we intuit would, without immense effort, have appeared very complicated. (p 209).","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["architecture","complexity","complicated","construction","design","elegance","intuition","simplicity"],"id":3289,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"Whether you're working in corporate America or you're a journalist, construction worker, a teacher or an actor - we're all trying to keep working. If one job is ending, you look for another job. When 'Psych' ends, I will be looking for another job.","author":"Dule Hill","tags":["america","job","construction "],"id":11599,"author_id":"Dule+Hill"},{"text":"Interest in temperament as an individual difference dimension of importance in one's behavior leads to reanalysis of both theoretical and methodological considerations relating to the construct.","author":"Moutasem Algharati","tags":["advice-for-daily-living","affection","allowance","behavioral-change","behaviors","consideration","consideration-of-others","construct","construction","decision","decisions-inspirational","differences","dimensions","dimensions-of-consciousness","experience","importance","individual-rights","intellectual","interesting-perspection-of-life","interesting","life-philosophy","life","long-term-relationships","love","relationship","short-inspirational","short-term","temper","temperament"],"id":13553,"author_id":"Moutasem+Algharati"},{"text":"If you build it well, a satisfaction comesAn honor to say I built that with fidelity,Purpose, value and integrity.","author":"Richard L. Ratliff","tags":["building","construction","hardwork","honor","integrity","life-lessons","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","purpose","satisfaction","value","wise","wise-words","working","working-hard"],"id":30492,"author_id":"Richard+L.+Ratliff"},{"text":"Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.","author":"John Maynard Keynes","tags":["love","men","construction "],"id":38143,"author_id":"John+Maynard+Keynes"},{"text":"Every human being is under construction from conception to death.","author":"Billy Graham","tags":["construction","human "],"id":49198,"author_id":"Billy+Graham"},{"text":"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["chaos","construction","creative-process","destruction","writers","writing"],"id":61227,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"Character is like 'Structural Integrity' in the field of engineering.A construction is believed to have structural integrity when it can withstand 'impact' from anywhere and anything, functioning adequately for its desired purposes and service life, until a physical collapse proves otherwise.'Integrity' springs from the original Latin root 'integrum', which means 'Intact'.A man has INTEGRITY when he remains INTACT, despite the IMPACT of forces that seek to sidetrack him.He will never confuse 'what is' with 'what ought to be', EVEN WHEN 'what is' will work in his favour.A man who will choose, not what the world forces his hands to choose, but what aligns with his destiny and will propel him to become what he is meant to become.Such men are few, such men should be me and you.","author":"Olaotan Fawehinmi","tags":["building","character","choice","construction","destiny","engineering","favour","impact","intact","integrity","life","olaotan-fawehinmi","purpose","structural-integrity","structure"],"id":64124,"author_id":"Olaotan+Fawehinmi"},{"text":"My life: under construction, but beautiful.","author":"A.D. Posey","tags":["ad-posey","beautiful","construction","inspirational","life","storytellers","storytelling","under","write","writers","writing","writing"],"id":67154,"author_id":"A.D.+Posey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":62,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}