Top 100 Functions Of Sayings
#1. I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.
George Washington
#2. The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.
Jean Piaget
#3. I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction.
Edith Wharton
#4. One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
Kevin Kelly
#5. All he knew was that he could not eat the flesh of this black man, and thus hereditary instinct, ages old, usurped the functions of his untaught mind and saved him from transgressing a worldwide law of whose very existence he was ignorant.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#6. The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work.
Wassily Kandinsky
#7. One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle.
Herbie Hancock
#8. I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
Michel De Montaigne
#9. Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.
Brian Tracy
#10. There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that.
Rider Strong
#11. Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.
Dean Koontz
#12. The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
Germaine Greer
#13. That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.
C.S. Lewis
#14. What would happen to the individual if all the functions of the body were placed under the control of the consciousness is what would happen to a nation in which all individual activities were directed by government.
Henry George
#15. To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government
as a barrier against foreign foes ... is [one of the] functions of the General Government on which [our citizens] have a right to call.
Thomas Jefferson
#16. I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.
George Gallup
#17. The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.
Charles Hodge
#18. Men have been taught that the ego is the synonym of evil, and selflessness the ideal of virtue. But the creator is the egotist in the absolute sense, and the selfless man is the one who does not think, feel, judge or act. These are functions of the self.
Ayn Rand
#19. A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
Roman Jakobson
#20. We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.
Arthur Capper
#21. The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
Michel De Montaigne
#22. When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.
Aldo Leopold
#23. Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.
Thomas Merton
#24. The causal, abstract, binary, holistic, and reductionist functions of the human brain all help you to process the enormous amount of information coming into our brain from the external world every day.
Abhijit Naskar
#25. Maybe looking away is about privilege. I need to think harder and longer about my choices and recognize that choosing whom I see and whom I don't see is one of the most hurtful functions of privilege.
Brene Brown
#26. I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
Ken Livingstone
#27. I wish functions of MS Office suite worked on Life, and things were as simple as pressing "Ctrl + Z" to undo the accident that changed everything
Rajat Mishra
#28. I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.
Marcus Aurelius
#29. Contemplative traditions on the whole have historically emphasized subjective, first-person investigation of the nature and functions of consciousness, by training the mind to focus in a disciplined way on its own internal states.
Dalai Lama XIV
#30. He had instigated a detailed study of the limb bones and locomotor patterns of a number of modern antelopes; the functions of varying bone structures of their legs could then be ascertained. Then, from the structure of fossil antelope bones reconstructed their movements.
Jane Goodall
#31. This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition
Steven Weinberg
#32. One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
William Weld
#33. I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.
Michael Parenti
#34. Sometimes the constraints that we live with, and presume are the same for everything, are really only functions of the scale in which we operate.
Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
#35. Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
Michael Novak
#36. It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.
James A. Garfield
#37. Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.
Anthony Stafford Beer
#38. In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.
William Holden
#39. The smartphone killed the traditional camera industry because it subsumed all the functions of a traditional camera.
Nick Woodman
#40. EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
Ambrose Bierce
#41. Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion ... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.
Chuck Palahniuk
#42. The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.
Jay Parini
#43. Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#44. I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.
David Neeleman
#45. Parametric equations express the coordinates of the points of a curve as functions of a variable, called a parameter. They make it easy to draw curves because you can just plug parameters into equations to produce a curve.
Mahesh Venkitachalam
#46. Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.
James Joyce
#47. One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
Aldous Huxley
#48. We're all functions of our societies, right? And we all become who we are because of the invisible forces that mold us.
Lauren Groff
#49. For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#50. What we think, do, and pay attention to changes the structure and functions of our brains!
Chade-Meng Tan
#51. We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be ...
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#52. Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.
Douglas Coupland
#53. To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
Abraham Lincoln
#54. It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are - or else to close them down. They are specialized training in the functions of business, not general educating in the practice of management.
Henry Mintzberg
#55. One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
Adrienne Rich
#56. the essential feature of the Dissociative Disorders is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity,or perception
American Psychiatric Association
#57. Quite simply, promotions are not just functions of ability, values, or the numbers you hit, but also rest critically on how you are perceived.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
#58. The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.
William Henry Harrison
#59. Functions of advertising To differentiate the product from their competitors To communicate product information To urge product used To expand the product distribution Too increase brand preference and loyalty To reduce overall sales cost Creates new demands
Prashant Faldu
#60. Physical body is just an instrument, through which you experience life. You have the awareness field, along with the physical body to experience life, while the entire major functions of the physical body, is performed by the subtle strings of the soul.
Roshan Sharma
#61. One of the functions of literary criticism, or reviewing, generally - and I, most of my reviews actually are not about literature - but one of the functions of that is basically the sort of Consumer Reports function of letting readers know whether this is something they want to read.
Louis Menand
#62. When physiologists revealed the existence and functions of hormones they not only gave increased opportunities for the activities of biochemists but in particular gave a new charter to biochemical thought, and with the discovery of vitamins that charter was extended.
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
#63. Everybody goes into different dimensional planes. You do it every night when you dream. You are journeying into other dimensional planes. Dreams are not just functions of the cerebral cortex.
Frederick Lenz
#64. The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
Barry Goldwater
#65. Of course, one of the main legitimate functions of thought has always been to help provide security, guaranteeing shelter and food for instance. However, this function went wrong when the principle source of insecurity came to be the operation of thought itself.
David
#66. The warding off of anxiety is central to the time-binding, action-delaying, and cerebral functions of the human animal.
Ernest Becker
#67. Colors express the main psychic functions of man.
Carl Jung
#68. Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.
John Kao
#69. The Holy Ghost, a personage of spirit, is their minister, who has been given the power and assigned the functions of bearing record of the Father and the Son, of revealing the truths of salvation to men on earth, and in due course, of revealing to them, all truth.
Bruce R. McConkie
#70. The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.
Jean Piaget
#71. It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
Jacki Weaver
#72. The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, and to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law.
Ayn Rand
#73. The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small number of organs or subordinate systems, which are easy to recognize anatomically, and the functions of which are on the whole quite distinct.
August Krogh
#74. Work democracy does not wish to prevent or prohibit anything. Its only intention is the fulfilment of the biological life functions, of love, work and knowledge.
Wilhelm Reich
#75. Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.
The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#76. One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.
Peter Schmidt
#77. One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
Lewis Mumford
#78. We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective empowerment, personal growth, communion with this world, and the search for what lies beneath and above this world.
Peter London
#79. It is not the function of the State to make men happy. They must make themselves happy in their own way, and at their own risk. The functions of the State lie entirely in the conditions or chances under which the pursuit of happiness is carried on.
William Graham Sumner
#80. One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.
C. G. Jung
#81. The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
Kate Millett
#82. Supramolecular chemistry is the chemistry of the intermolecular bond, covering the structures and functions of the entities formed by association of two or more chemical species.
Jean-Marie Lehn
#83. One of the functions of all my novels is to prove that the novel in general does not exist.
Vladimir Nabokov
#84. Like every Canadian, I have been taught that one of the most important functions of art is to supply and elaborate the myths and narratives of nationhood.
Miriam Toews
#85. You begin to understand your personality, your response, and the functions of your body, heart and mind into different situations, events and with different people, with the inward attention.
Roshan Sharma
#86. If the functions of the body are left to atrophy, the quality of life becomes merely adequate, and for some even dismal. But if one takes control of what the body can do, and learns to impose order on physical sensations, entropy yields to a sense of enjoyable harmony in consciousness.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#88. The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.
Ellen Key
#89. A man's spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.
Ayn Rand
#90. When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty.
Naomi Klein
#91. Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.
Carl Ludwig
#92. Physiology, in its analysis of the physiological functions of the sense organs, must use the results of subjective observation of sensations; and psychology, in its turn, needs to know the physiological aspects of sensory function, in order rightly to appreciate the psychological.
Wilhelm Wundt
#93. Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things.
Rex Stout
#94. One of the functions of entertainment, I think, is education. - Roy E. Disney
Newton Lee
#95. We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
Alvar Aalto
#96. Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body.
Henry David Thoreau
#97. Often something looks, or is felt to look, "better" in a photograph. Indeed, it is one of the functions of photography to improve the normal appearance of things. (Hence, one is always disappointed by a photograph that is not flattering.)
Susan Sontag
#98. I think the condition of imperial denial is a handicap because if you do not recognize that you are essentially performing the functions of an empire, you are incapable of learning from the mistakes of past empires.
Niall Ferguson
#99. Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.
George Steiner
#100. One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead ... to produce future.
Francois Jacob
