Functional Quotes

#1. My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space and communicate information. My strongest point in drawing has always been my ability to show characters' nonverbal communication through facial expression and posture.

Jessica Abel

#2. What an individual does day to day on the job now must stretch across functional boundaries. Designers analyze. Analysts design. Marketers create. Creators market.

Daniel H. Pink

#3. I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.

Bear Grylls

#4. L.A. is such a different place. I miss New York so much. I almost teared up when I came back and wanted a Guinness and realized I could drink it and take a cab home. I remembered that I could be a functional alcoholic in New York, like I used to be!

Donald Glover

#5. The goal of physiological research is functional nature.

Walter Rudolf Hess

#6. Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.

Martha MacIsaac

#7. What better allies are there than those organized around their own needs and demands, a functional and not merely charitable alliance?

Amy Sonnie

#8. Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#9. When your people have determined that you understand their lies in their hearts and are dedicated to their functional wellbeing, they will compensate for your weaknesses and shore up your strengths.

Kevin Allen

#10. Memorial was so functional. It was a storage facility. A prematorium.

John Green

#11. Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey factual information - facts, more than just the surfaces of things.

Jonathan Lethem

#12. I can't worry too much about the everyday things. Otherwise I'd lose touch with my own world, that helps me as an artist, but it's frustrating for the people around me. I'm vaguely functional, but there's always something slightly off.

Florence Welch

#13. I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.

Billy Sherwood

#14. Chronological age is only an approximation of your functional age.

Marv Levy

#15. These days, most of us carry a fully functional multimedia studio around in our smartphones.

Austin Kleon

#16. Pilates is an awesome cross-training exercise for any sport because it focuses on functional movement.

Natalie Coughlin

#17. To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best

Ingvar Kamprad

#18. The finding that ME and CFS group had more functional limitations and more serious symptoms than those with MS [multiple sclerosis] provides additional evidence to the seriousness of ME and CFS.

Leonard A. Jason

#19. You need to understand the market, know how you can differentiate yourself in it, and grasp the price and the functional differentiation competitive points that are going to allow you to be disruptive.

Audrey MacLean

#20. Few things contain and impact the immediacy of cultural impress so evocatively as books, and not only through their ideas. A book is an artifact, and every age establishes upon the basic functional structure its own particular stamp.

William Everson

#21. You must not run your Organization as a functional hierarchy. You must understand it as a System.

W. Edwards Deming

#22. If someone arrives, fully functional yet a tabula rasa, how does their environment influence, educate, even mold them? And if that is a nurture question, then where does that character's nature fit in? How does that manifest?

Greg Rucka

#23. When I started, these [yoga] were very functional practices, as I said, productive to lose weight, or whatever, and now it has become a very spiritual kind of practice.

Karan Bajaj

#24. There are three different kinds of scripting: functional, informational and emotional.

Jay Sankey

#25. One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.

Bear Grylls

#26. I needed to become a fully functional, contributing member of my life

Vicki Wilson

#27. My family may be dysfunctional, but I think it's pretty functional in its dysfunction.

Amanda Torrey

#28. This works, but it's hard to imagine that anybody except a hard-core functional programmer would consider it pretty.

Anonymous

#29. The skin is no more separated from the brain than the surface of a lake is separate from its depths; the two are different locations in a continuous medium ... The brain is a single functional unit, from cortex to fingertips to toes. To touch the surface is to stir the depths.

Deane Juhan

#30. Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

Robert A. Heinlein

#31. I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

Ahmet Zappa

#32. We are very proud of our design for the Transbay Transit Center. This will be a beautiful, functional and sustainable building for San Francisco.

Cesar Pelli

#33. The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#34. The only product that's worth investing in is a fully functional musculoskeletal system. It's no luxury but rather a basic necessity that's within everyone's reach.

Pete Egoscue

#35. Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

Maria Montessori

#36. Most of the robots being developed for home use are functional in design - Gecko's homecare robot looks rather like the Star Wars robot R2-D2. Honda and Sony are designing robots that look more like the same movie's 'android' C-3PO.

Peter Singer

#37. I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.

John Burnside

#38. I don't mind the term functional medicine
I suppose it's better than dysfunctional medicine.

Nancy S. Mure

#39. The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.

Zygmunt Bauman

#40. The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.

Carlos Castaneda

#41. My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.

Umberto Eco

#42. The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is distinguished by the fact that it is one of the most important of them from the functional point of view. Indeed, it could even be called the archetype of wholeness.

Carl Jung

#43. Throughout our lifetimes, we are constantly regenerating new brain cells in the hippocampus, a process called neurogenesis. New stem cells are constantly being born in the hippocampus that ultimately differentiate into fully functional neurons.

David Perlmutter

#44. I like decorative, functional things that I feel comfortable in.

Joey Lauren Adams

#45. African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

Mos Def

#46. Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible throughout our entire lives and avoiding crippling, painful and lengthy battles with disease. There are many better ways to die, and to live.

T. Colin Campbell

#47. I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.

Stuart Rose

#48. The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function.

Jonathan Ive

#49. Anything that's not functional is merely decorative.

David Mazzucchelli

#50. Soul is nothing but the functional expression of protoplasmic activity in the brain.

Abhijit Naskar

#51. Of course there is a way to stop the rampant spread of beauty. It has to do with regimentation, conformity, assemblyline aesthetics, and the triumph of the functional over the haphazard.

Anne Rice

#52. The production and consumption of glucose, and hence, the blood sugar level, are controlled by a functional endocrine equilibrium.

Bernardo Houssay

#53. When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.

Bill Viola

#54. If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.

Kevin O'Leary

#55. If a chair or a building is not functional ... it is ridiculous.

Donald Judd

#56. When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.

Jamais Cascio

#57. We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.

Dan Marino

#58. I bought a pair of Birkenstocks today - let's be real. I wanted a chunky sandal that was functional. That should tell you where I am at as far as fashion.

Chloe Sevigny

#59. It is possible to pray in such a way that one does not transcend the world, in such a way that the divine is degraded to a functional part of the workaday world ... then it is no longer devotion to the divine, but an attempt to master it.

Josef Pieper

#60. The scene is never really about moving the story forward on 'Breaking Bad.' That's the functional veneer of the scene, but it's always about what's going on with the characters.

George Mastras

#61. When the auto arrives it's hard to believe there's a functional vehicle underneath all the mud and moss and sprays of gravel, which stick to the sides like barnacles on a ship.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#62. In functional families the roles are chosen and are flexible. The members have the choice of giving up the roles. In dysfunctional families the roles are rigid.

John Bradshaw

#63. I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.

Scott Westerfeld

#64. The affective modalities of semiosis, in Halliday's functional analysis, are most concerned with the imaginative and the personal functions. Consider for example the ways in which the dialogism I have described above accord with Halliday's insistence that the

Anonymous

#65. Like hedonistic consumption, we are encouraged to believe that the excesses of the family are normal and that it is abnormal to believe that one can have a functional, loving family.

Bell Hooks

#66. Easily acquired. Inexpensive. Perfectly functional. Portable. Identifiable. Disposable. Eternal enough. These are my criteria for the perfect storage system. And I've found the answer in the simple file box.

Twyla Tharp

#67. I named him Poodle, beginning a long tradition of functional pet naming.

John Elder Robison

#68. All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.

A.E. Samaan

#69. Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.

Nadya Suleman

#70. A bathroom should be sterile and beautiful and functional. It should exude Japanese-style purity.

Isaac Mizrahi

#71. The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience of the comfortable. There could be a disturbing feeling, however fleeting, of unease, even guilt.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#72. 2 days off: Typical weekend.
3 days off: Well rested.
4+ days off: Forget every single element of what it takes to be a functional member of society.

Unknown

#73. Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.

Duane Elgin

#74. Food should be fun, but it should also be functional.

Robert Irvine

#75. Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage.

Peter Behrens

#76. She decided to forgo her ambitions of creating a cohesive unit. An occasionally functional one with tendencies towards violence seemed more within reach.

Lindsay Buroker

#77. How is feeling like a failure supposed to help me? The way I see it, they should invent some pill that just makes you forget whatever you want, some pill that makes you numb and functional.

Amy Reed

#78. Functional tests should help you build an application with the right functionality, and guarantee you never accidentally break it. Unit tests should help you to write code that's clean and bug free.

Anonymous

#79. In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.

James Young

#80. Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

Martin Luther

#81. Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.

Walter Rudolf Hess

#82. But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.

Helen Fielding

#83. The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution.

Stephen Jay Gould

#84. The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.

Warren Farrell

#85. It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

Northrop Frye

#86. My husband and I own a CrossFit Gym. Crossfit is perfect for me because it's always competitive, all the workouts are in a class environment, and it's different every day. It's a constantly varied functional fitness workout done with intensity.

Chelan Simmons

#87. I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional. It costs an obscene amount of money.

Gil Garcetti

#88. There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.

David Nicholls

#89. But the original was there as well - more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep within my own heart. One that had been locked so tight for so long that I was afraid to even try it for fear of what might be on the other side

Sarah Dessen

#90. As a police officer it has been my experience that pedophiles are able to operate and stay functional over long periods of time and victimize scores, even hundreds, of children, because no one wants to believe his or her own intuitions about the symptoms in the perpetrator.

James Lee Burke

#91. I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.

Peter Maurin

#92. I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever to feel simply functional - at least not for any stretch.

Michael Helm

#93. Quite frankly, the Urban brand organization became too siloed, with too little communication across functional areas. The great creativity that has been the hallmark of our success became stifled.

Richard Hayne

#94. There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

Will Oldham

#95. A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

Dieter Rams

#96. The concept of a Miracle, that is, an event that takes place somehow beyond the scope of functional Reality, is absurd. . . There cannot be a true miracle. There can only be events that appear miraculous when you don't really understand How Life Works.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#97. Transgender people are not Mal-functional humans.

M.F. Moonzajer

#98. All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity.

Raymond Chandler

#99. Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the Zen arts, from calligraphy to karate, from the tea ceremony to Zen archery.

Shunryu Suzuki

#100. We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food webs, within large 'no-take' marine protected areas.

Daniel Pauly