Functional Quotes

#1. The more closely our maps or paradigms are aligned with these principles or natural laws, the more accurate and functional they will be

Stephen R. Covey

#2. My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.

Joseph Altuzarra

#3. ... there is an inherent rationality to life that makes it intelligible at a much deeper level than functional utility ...

Brian Goodwin

#4. A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.

D. Todd Christofferson

#5. Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

Charles Eames

#6. Its aircon was functional rather than luxurious,

Peter J. Evans

#7. With all due respect, Jacobi, that's a load of bull. It was bad, but I handled it. That's what the job is. I hardly have a scratch on me. So stop treating me like a victim. I'm fully functional and absolutely sane. This is my case and I'm on it. OK? OK?

James Patterson

#8. In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#9. Prolonged stress causes the human body to make adaptations so it can continue to serve you at a functional level. The more stress, the more adaptations.

Janet Gallagher Nestor

#10. The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners ...

Natalie Goldberg

#11. We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

Joichi Ito

#12. Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?"

Leigh Whannell

#13. I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.

Corey Haim

#14. We remove ourselves from the experience itself to a surrogate of the experience, which is whatever measure you take from the brain, be it the electroencephalogram or magnet encephalography or say functional magnetic resonance. So it's pretty tough to make those comparisons.

Antonio Damasio

#15. I love watching Rihanna in fashion. I like to see her take chances and risks. I like seeing Naomi Campbell in the forefront. They're both women who stand out and use their bodies as canvases to introduce this functional art to the world. They carry it in a way that is very inspiring.

Erykah Badu

#16. Twitter is so stupid. I mean, it sucks! It's not a good way to communicate and it's really difficult to use it for any functional thing.

Phil Elvrum

#17. Are you functional?" - Leo

Cameron Jace

#18. I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

Brian Eno

#19. For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

Alec Soth

#20. I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.

Glennon Melton

#21. When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this country are truly functional, Australia will be as beautiful in its own way as classical Greece.

Robin Boyd

#22. app, 'Functional Ear Trainer' which isn't like any other ear trainer in the way that it teaches you relative pitch in the context of cadences instead of just guessing random intervals. Check out the creator's website here. And

Graham Tippett

#23. They stamp the slush off their boots with autopilot eyes and answering-machine voices while they wait for their drug of choice - caffeine or nicotine or sugar - to kick in and render their bodies at least tolerably functional until the first break. Out

Fredrik Backman

#24. The most important consideration I have is I want my legislative shop to have a functional office suite that is conducive to getting their work accomplished.

Steve Womack

#25. I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.

Alan Ball

#26. I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them.

Ansel Adams

#27. I like my friends at a functional enough level of mediocre to where I don't feel incompetent.

Veronica Larsen

#28. As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy.

May-Britt Moser

#29. The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.

Kenneth Tynan

#30. In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist.

Cecil Taylor

#31. The subconscious n conscious mind together comprise functional brain which operates 24 hours a day as a kind of computer, selecting and registering data n then feeding it back when need it.

Tanu Reshma B Singh

#32. Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional. He is turned is back to the world of the foreboding and the exulting and has welcomed the world of boredom.

Carlos Castaneda

#33. In my growing-up years in Germany, I attended church in many different locations and circumstances - in humble back rooms, in impressive villas, and in very functional modern chapels.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#34. Although we experience our nonphysical levels of self as potential, they are also functional in our lives. An acorn is a potential oak tree, but the oak tree could be seen as the essence of the acorn, guiding its development into the oak tree.

Shepherd Hoodwin

#35. Having two non-functional parties is not a democracy, it's a losing coin flip.

Russ Lippitt

#36. I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later.

Bobby Flay

#37. Not everything you're going to do in volleyball - or in life, for that matter - is exciting or fully functional, but if you have the willpower to make each minute count, you'll benefit in some way. And it will make you a better player and a better person in the long run.

Karch Kiraly

#38. Your everyday talk teaches your functional understanding of the gospel to your children. Does your everyday talk center upon grace or performance?

Jay Younts

#39. It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only to those richly endowed with Faith.

Marjory Stephenson

#40. The first thing he noticed was that Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, 'The Gilded Mousetrap School' he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to channel the customer-mouse into the central gambling trap whether he wanted the cheese or not.

Ian Fleming

#41. We put the fun in functional.

Knock Knock

#42. This (Knowledge of Akram Vignan) is the 'real' thing and it is the absolute truth and the absolute truth is always functional (gives results).

Dada Bhagwan

#43. Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.

Thomas Metzinger

#44. What I think is that every family is happy in their own fashion, and every family is unhappy in their own fashion. Every family is both functional and dysfunctional.

Elin Hilderbrand

#45. Go isn't functional, it's pragmatical. Why pure paradigms like FP or OOP are always a must? (sigh)

Frank Muller

#46. Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.

James P. Hoffa

#47. In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.

Eckhart Tolle

#48. A list of the thirteen types of photograph (plus an afterthought): Aide-memoire Reportage Work of art Topography Erotica/Pornography Advertisement Abstract image Literature Text Autobiography Compositional Functional illustration Snapshot

William Boyd

#49. The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them.

Sue Johnson

#50. If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.

Yves Behar

#51. Once we have a nice, conceptual sketch and rendering and design approved, then it's really about pinpointing what's functional and what's not, because functional equals expensive.

James Pearse Connelly

#52. Our families and our homes are the center of American life, Everything we do is to make those homes-and the lives in them-more beautiful, more comfortable, more functional and more full of life and light and joy for those we love.

Martha Stewart

#53. My favorite outdoor activities are running, yoga, and functional training. My favorite indoor workouts are Pilates, kickboxing, functional training, and a lot of different exercises at the gym with and without weights - including TRX.

Izabel Goulart

#54. When you're in a functional friendship or a functional relationship, and you feel like you've got something to share, you can share it with a friend, a lover or whatever.

Julie Plec

#55. Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I'm happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look - it's useable, functional muscle.

Channing Tatum

#56. Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?

Prince Charles

#57. Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition.

Jade Jagger

#58. Functional exercise is not defined by what it looks like, it's defined by what it produces

Brett Jones

#59. When what is is congruent to what is supposed, the reaction is functional and the mental processes competent. When what is and what is supposed have nothing to do with each other, the choice of reactions is random. Something tears.

Samuel R. Delany

#60. Consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...

John Geddes

#61. When a silhouette or shape is as beautiful as it is functional and relevant, that's true luxury.

Reed Krakoff

#62. Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins ...

Clement Greenberg

#63. What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well.

Henry Mintzberg

#64. Scala is also a functional language in the sense that every function is a value and because every value is an object so ultimately every function is an object.

Anonymous

#65. I view my hair and clothes as functional art ...

Erykah Badu

#66. Christian conservatives care about their families eating. They're concerned about energy independence. They're concerned about functional government.

Mike Huckabee

#67. Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.

Victor Grignard

#68. All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

Brian Eno

#69. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

Ned Vizzini

#70. Each piece of dialogue MUST be "something happening" ... The "amusing" for its OWN sake should above all be censored ... The functional use of dialogue for the plot must be the first thing in the writer's mind. Where functional usefulness cannot be established, dialogue must be left out.

Elizabeth Bowen

#71. We're damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet.

Evanna Lynch

#72. We weren't old and lame and interested in companionship; that's only functional at a certain age for child rearing or to make sure you don't die alone. Dating was fucking.

A.D. Aliwat

#73. You must come to see every human being Including yourself, As an incarnation In a body or personality, going through a certain Life experience which is functional.

Ram Dass

#74. For the record, I do have genitals; and they are functional and aesthetically pleasing.

Chuck Lorre

#75. But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is that compared to the magnificent uselessness of a woman's face? Mersault was aware of this now, delighting in his vanity and smiling at his secret demons.

Albert Camus

#76. So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.

Stephen Karam

#77. The main difference between writing JavaScript code like the average Joe (or Jill) and writing it like a JavaScript ninja is understanding JavaScript as a functional language.

Anonymous

#78. Change is loss. I was fully functional prior to the actions you have taken. If you change me, I will cease to be me. If you love me, you wouldn't want to change me ... Love appears to have made you less functional.

Thomm Quackenbush

#79. But grieving people are selfish. They won't let you comfort them and they say you don't understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you've been functional to them.

Melina Marchetta

#80. When you are saying "I", it is actually the billions of neurons in your brain collectively expressing their functional existence.

Abhijit Naskar

#81. Defective" was a big word in our house. Many things were labeled "defective" only to miraculously turn functional once the directions had been read more thoroughly.

Tina Fey

#82. It is so difficult for us to remember and be motivated by what is truly important. It is so tempting to be committed to our little kingdoms that the transcendent kingdom of God is of little functional influence.

Paul David Tripp

#83. Well, I don't play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family.

Christopher Walken

#84. I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.

Andie MacDowell

#85. It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war.

Dan Simmons

#86. Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

Ferdinand Porsche

#87. The Coke bottle is a masterpiece of scientific, functional planning. In simpler terms, I would describe the bottle as well thought out, logical, sparing of material and pleasant to look at.

Raymond Loewy

#88. In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

Joseph Altuzarra

#89. architecture to spiritually uplift and thought it was a very bad idea to build functional, uninspired blocks of flats that would depress both their inhabitants and society at large. And,

Menna Van Praag

#90. The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.

Herbert Marcuse

#91. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human.

Ned Vizzini

#92. The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.

Bronislaw Malinowski

#93. [ ... ] a time when anarchists were truly fearsome - less because they were willing to put a brick through a Starbucks window than because they had figured out how to organize themselves in a functional, egalitarian, and sufficiently productive society.

Noam Chomsky

#94. I think that men's clothing should be functional. If there's a rip in his jeans, it should be because he was out working, not because he ripped them so they looked cool. It's even better if they're ripped because he got in a fight.

Samaire Armstrong

#95. Always look at the function, its not what you did but why do you do it? Once you find the why then you walk through another door

Matt Broadway-Horner

#96. True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and of free federation from the simple to the compound, in lieu of the present hierarchy from the centre to the periphery.

Peter Kropotkin

#97. In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

Arne Jacobsen

#98. A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

Cornel West

#99. The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.

Montgomery Clift

#100. for the average team, insisting on writing tests first, before functional coding, improves quality.

David J. Anderson