Top 100 Quotes About Function
#1. Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
Thomas Jefferson
#2. I wouldn't say I'm a spender in the sense that I'm going out on huge spending sprees. However, to be able to function at the top of your game on the professional tennis circuit often requires an element of frequent spending.
Andy Murray
#3. We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
Martha Graham
#4. I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing - a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process - an integral function of the universe.
Buckminster Fuller
#5. The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#6. The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.
John Burdett
#7. Believe it or not, stories don't function in terms of beginnings, middles and ends, they simply have beginnings, middles, and ends.
Film Crit Hulk!
#8. Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.
Patricia Churchland
#9. The convenient function of every celebrated machine for living is to produce machines to live in them.
Chris Campanioni
#10. A very important function of intelligence is the ability to premeditate. ~ Aarush Kashyap
Kirtida Gautam
#11. To be true to an idea, you have to value expression over perfection, vitality over finish, movement over the static, and form over function. Put your personality before practicality and your individuality into everything. Ironing out impracticalities irons out what is unique.
Rod Judkins
#12. By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while still keeping genes whole. Sex is not only fun, it is good engineering practice.
Seth Lloyd
#13. The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.
Vladimir Lenin
#14. The earth will solve its problems, and possibly our own, if we will let the earth function in its own ways. We need only listen to what the earth is telling us.
Thomas Berry
#15. The poet's function is to make his imagination ... become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.
Wallace Stevens
#16. As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.
Hunter S. Thompson
#17. Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.
Ralph Merkle
#18. Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior.
David D. Burns
#19. Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.
Victor Borge
#20. The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.
Herbert Marcuse
#21. The religious and scholarly alike arrive at conclusions as to Jesus' nature based on the world-view they hold, the belief structure that shapes their interpretation. Inaccurate views of the function of reality can only lead to erroneous conclusions.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#22. Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.
Erich Fromm
#23. 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
#24. Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.
Moshe Safdie
#25. The true function of sex is to bring more love into the world.
Diana Richardson
#26. I do think that once you remove the limitations of the page, once you turn text transitive, meaning it can be clicked away from, the forward movement of text can be interrupted. But I don't think this is just a function of technology. It's also a function of cultural preference.
Joshua Cohen
#27. Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.
Aristotle.
#28. The universal motivator," she says. "That has always been what makes a squad function under fire. Not honor or medals or promotions. As long as they make us pick up rifles and go to war together, it'll always be about the grunt next to you." I
Marko Kloos
#29. Leadership is not a title, a position or an Office but a function
Kayode Fayemi
#30. I'm OK with procedural code, and the web is a top-down type of problem. It makes sense to me that you have HTML, you spit out a bunch of HTML, then you call a function to do something and then call another function.
Rasmus Lerdorf
#31. I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.
Diablo Cody
#32. Tisn't any need for you't'know. Even without you knowin', you function as yourself. That's your black box. In other words, we all carry around this great unexplored 'elephant graveyard' inside us. Outer space aside, this is truly humanity's last terra incognita
Haruki Murakami
#33. Today the law defines death, with appropriate blurriness, as the cessation of brain function. Though the heart may still throb and the unknowing bone marrow create new cells, no man's history can outlive his brain.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#34. Things around here function on lies because if people knew the truth, it wouldn't work.
Kayla Krantz
#35. Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.
Scott Adams
#36. And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual's function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you're in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.
Timothy Leary
#37. TO BE "THE SEWER OF CHRISTENDOM and drain all the discords out of it" was the primary function of the Crusades,
Barbara W. Tuchman
#38. The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
David Brinkley
#40. The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm.
Mark Twain
#41. Education from the lowest to the highest form must have for its object the training of the individual so that, in seeking the fullest satisfaction of his own nature, he will harmoniously perform his function as a member of a corporate society.
Charles A. Beard
#42. Creativity and spirituality function on the same side of the brain. If that is true, it is quite reasonable and natural for them to function together. The prophets and mystics we're obviously aware of this connection. p. 23.
David Brazzeal
#43. You'd be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look
T.D. Jakes
#44. The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary ...
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#45. The physical reality is assumed to be the wave function of the whole universe itself.
Hugh Jackman
#46. Cliches, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.
Hannah Arendt
#47. We are seldom sorry for those who need and crave our pity - we reserve this for those who, by other means, make us exercise the abstract function of pity.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#48. The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress.
Thomas I. Emerson
#49. Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
Charles De Gaulle
#50. Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
Marya Mannes
#51. The only difference between holding one god as exclusive or supreme and believing in many gods specialized in function is the number.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#52. I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what happened, I couldn't function.
Torii Hunter
#53. I did the 'Bionic Woman,' which of course had a lot of humor in it, and that was really a function of a lot of the ad-libbing and the things that I did in it.
Lindsay Wagner
#54. I'd believed I needed to be steady in myself before I could function with others - but surviving alone no longer felt like a good way either.
Aspen Matis
#55. The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
Oscar Wilde
#56. The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic.
Chris Hedges
#58. I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop and frisk,' or whatever terminology they use, is doomed to failure. It's that simple.
William Bratton
#59. The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.
Jim Webb
#60. The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into another, more valuable one is the ancient function of metaphor, as it was of alchemy.
Patricia Hampl
#61. Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.
Daniel J. Siegel
#62. What is his purpose, then?" "I don't know. Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#63. The idea of not being a kid anymore terrifies me. I am an adult and I have been hurled out of the world of boys and girls into the fray of men and women, and expected to function as a grown-up when I never functioned very well as a kid.
Kelley York
#64. In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.
Howard Rheingold
#65. With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.
Ladislav Sutnar
#66. The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was.
Peter Drucker
#67. I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?
Stephen Baldwin
#68. The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.
John Dewey
#69. In order to satisfy this great oneiric function, which makes it not a kind of total monument, the [Eiffel] Tower must escape reason. The first condition of this victorious flight is that the Tower be an utterly useless monument.
Roland Barthes
#70. Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.
Caleb Carr
#71. You completely consume me, Ava. I can't function without you. I'm totally addicted to you, baby.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#72. All true definitions of art are circular, and all untrue definitions of art ascribe to it a specific function. A
Julian Barnes
#73. Narration, after all, isn't just a literary function. It represents the human capacity to tell stories in such a manner that they yield meaning. Television replaced this concerted quest for meaning with a frantic pursuit of wonder.
Steve Almond
#74. Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.
David Byrne
#75. I think 'The Avengers' is a Black Widow movie. She saves the day. And if you take her out, the plot does not function.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
#76. It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#77. My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#78. We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.
Lewis Thomas
#79. Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can't trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is honest but they can't perform, you're not going to trust them either. You won't trust them to get the job done.
Stephen Covey
#80. The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Frank Herbert
#81. relationships between debtors and creditors brokered or 'intermediated' by increasingly numerous institutions called banks. The core function of these institutions was now information gathering and risk management.
Niall Ferguson
#82. He did it because he liked it. Still does. Dr. Lecter is not crazy, in any common way we think of being crazy. He did some hideous things because he enjoyed them. But he can function perfectly when he wants to.
Thomas Harris
#83. To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.
John Drinkwater
#84. The object that was pinning me haplessly to the ground, like a butterfly on a collector's tray, was of twentieth-century origin and of very specific function.
Oh, all right, it was a public lavatory.
Jonathan Stroud
#85. Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.
Ruth McKenney
#86. The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#87. I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#88. a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a 'function', one cog in a machine.
Yukio Mishima
#89. Love is a lot like pork: there's loin steak and there's bologna. Each has its own place and function.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#90. Historic fascists generally argued that women's primary function was domestic and reproductive. National-populists
Kevin Passmore
#91. What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'
Giles Andreae
#92. The sword of Zulfiqar is a perfect fusion of power and function
Soroosh Shahrivar
#93. We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action.
J. D. Bernal
#94. That's the function of big brothers ... to help their little sisters when their worlds are collapsing.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#95. How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?
Beatrice Sparks
#96. I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.
Dana Plato
#97. Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
H.G.Wells
#98. Serotonin, the "feel-good" brain chemical that is boosted by Prozac, depends on magnesium for its production and function.
Carolyn Dean
#99. Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.
Karl Abraham
#100. One of the sad features of most close relationships is the decay of intimacy as a function of time, turmoil, and all the little misunderstandings that inevitably occur between people, leading them, year in and year out, toward the same tired conclusions: conversation falters; friendships fail.
Donald Antrim
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