75 Quotes About Construction
- Author Danny Hilman Natawidjaja
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Gunung Padang is not a natural hill but a man-made pyramid and the origins of construction here go back long before the end of the last Ice Age. Since the work is massive even at the deepest levels, and bears witness to the kinds of sophisticated construction skills that were deployed to build the pyramids of Egypt, or the largest megalithic sites of Europe, I can only conclude that we're looking at the work of a lost civilization and a fairly advanced one.
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- Author Steven Magee
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It is my expectation that a wide range of construction workers will lose their long term health to High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) from working on the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project atop Mauna Kea.
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- Author Steven Magee
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COVID-19 caused a lumber shortage in 2020.
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- Author Ron Brackin
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Contrary to popular belief, diamond is not the hardest material known to man. The hardest material in the universe is dried egg yolk. And one day, it will revolutionize the construction industry.
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- Author Bobby Darnell
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Saying, “I don’t have time for CRM.” is like saying, “I don’t have time to look at my GPS app because I am too busy trying to figure out the best way to get from here to there.
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- Author Umberto Eco
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Affected as they are by a constitutive solipsism, philosophies can say everything about the worldthey design and very little about the world they help to construct.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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For a thing’s beauty we ought to compliment not its owner but its maker.
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- Author Peter Zumthor
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Construction is the art of making a meaningful whole out of many parts. Buildings are witnesses to the human ability to construct concrete things. I believe that the real core of all architectural work lies in the act of construction. At the point in time concrete materials are assembled and erected, the architecture we have been looking for becomes part of the real world.
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- Author Lee Battersby
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The only direction not represented in their construction was vertical.
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