Top 38 Functionally Quotes
#1. Modules of brain networks define communities of structurally and functionally related areas, but they do not represent or support discrete mental faculties.
Olaf Sporns
#2. The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.
William Blum
#3. To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of vocabulary words, if you really train someone well they can acquire 200 to 300 words a day, which means that in a week they can acquire the vocabulary necessary to speak a language.
Timothy Ferriss
#4. I didn't doubt for a moment that she had read them all, or that they were the right books to own. Further, they seemed to be an organic combination of her mind and personality, whereas mine struck me as functionally separate, straining to describe a character I hoped to grow into.
Julian Barnes
#5. A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.
Gary Hamel
#6. If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption in the form of return on invested capital, less than 1 percent of United States households are capitalists.
Louis O. Kelso
#7. Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being. It has also been noted that in the modern world, health still has a moral dimension.
Mildred Blaxter
#8. The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.
Noah Feldman
#9. It was a fine thing indeed, Luna thought, being eleven. She loved the symmetry of it, and the lack of symmetry. Eleven was a number that was visually even, but functionally not - it looked one way and behaved in quite another. Just like most eleven-year-olds, or so she assumed.
Kelly Barnhill
#10. Money is to an economy as nutrition is to the human body. When central bankers ignore that relationship by providing more capital that functionally needed, they debase everything capitalism stands for.
Said Elias Dawlabani
#11. [The evidence from cosmology] determines that the cause of the universe is functionally equivalent to the God of the Bible, a Being beyond the matter, energy, space, and time of the cosmos.
Hugh Ross
#12. When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.
Janine Benyus
#13. The Web is functionally fantastic, but it's a tool. A terrific place to present information but not, at this stage, a tenably emotional location.
Kevin Roberts
#14. Wilhelm Reich identified "armor" as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individual develops as a blocking against his emotional excitations, resulting in rigidity of the body, lack of emotional contact, "deadness". Functionally identical to muscular armor (chronic muscular spasms)
Wilhelm Reich
#15. If the tonal collapses completely, then you're crazy functionally, you're psychotic.
Frederick Lenz
#16. Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward towards something.
Maxwell Maltz
#17. Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy.
Martha Beck
#18. You will find that the dullest, most functionally illiterate mental mushroom has a very definite, very "scientific" view on one thing: the impossibility of any kind of psychic phenomena.
Simon
#19. We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion.
Lewis Thomas
#20. Research students are numbered in the hundreds of thousands-soon to be millions -and they are no longer distributed superficially and at random over the globe, but are functionally linked together in a vast organic system that will remain in the future indispensable to the life of the community.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#21. The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".
Tucker Max
#22. Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.
Arne Jacobsen
#23. The depreciation of historical fact is deeply, and probably functionally, ingrained in the ideology of the scientific profession, the same profession that places the highest of all values upon factual details of other sorts.
Thomas S. Kuhn
#24. And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
Buddy Rich
#25. Jonas. Their rock. Shattered into so many shards. Holding himself together through the sheer force of will.
Christine Feehan
#26. Probably means there's a good chance. Possibly means we might or we might not.
Will Smith
#27. I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it.
Kurt Fuller
#28. Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
Irving Babbitt
#29. I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
Catherynne M Valente
#30. I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me.
Herb Ritts
#31. Go for it, Aunt Ginny! Knock him flying! You can always have another kid! One with better manners and less stinky feet!
G. Norman Lippert
#32. I like working in all different mediums so I'm truly lucky to be able to flip back and forth.
Matt Squire
#33. We don't need to reach the end of the road to learn that we were on the wrong road." Page 7.
Assegid Habtewold
#34. Prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent.
Mary Collyer
#36. I think love is the most important thing in life. Whatever kind, however you define it, but I think of it generally as being greatly valued by another human being and greatly valuing another human being.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#37. Don't confuse fairness with justice. Justice is about doing what is right. Fairness means everyone gets exactly the same thing.
Tim Stevens
#38. I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work.
Jesse Helms
