Quotes About Functioning

#1. if your internal organs are functioning in perfect health and harmony, their 'balance' is revealed externally in the form of a radiantly glowing face, an energetic body and serene mindset.

Anand Gupta

#2. Aiming at health, restoring health - that is a goal that is both morally important and limited, because it aims at the restoration of normal human functioning, which is an important part of human flourishing.

Michael Sandel

#3. Optimal functioning of the immune system, it turns out, is dependent upon feeling good.

Marcey Shapiro

#4. All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

Peter Senge

#5. If a person really believes they need some kind of special inherited talent or proper-sided brain functioning, this will interfere with their productivity. I don't want to know what side of the brain I am using.

Jim Rowe

#6. You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is functioning ... Look for the color and tone and texture ... how the light falls on the figure, especially the face.

Howard Pyle

#7. You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.

John Podhoretz

#8. Gottman has found, in fact, that the presence of contempt in a marriage can even predict such things as how many colds a husband or a wife gets; in other words, having someone you love express contempt toward you is so stressful that it begins to affect the functioning of your immune system.

Malcolm Gladwell

#9. When lack of funds prevents hospitals from functioning efficiently and fully, private philanthropy of all kinds must help. The difference it makes in terms of human betterment, represents the kind of happiness that money really can buy.

Henry Townley Heald

#10. Much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning.

Isabel Briggs Myers

#11. The great problems we see in the world today will not be solved by people functioning at half capacity cranking out work they don't care about in order to buy more things that will eventually rust and rot.

Todd Henry

#12. A well-functioning team of adequate people will complete a project almost regardless of the process or technology they are asked to use (although the process and technology may help or hinder them along the way).

Alistair Cockburn

#13. Cowardice is for cowards. Fear is for people with brains and eyes and functioning nerve endings.

Katherine Rundell

#14. A bad media creates a bad world and a good media makes the world good. The day all forms of media will stop functioning, we shall get a good understanding of the real meaning, value and impact of the media.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#15. I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.

Tom Hooper

#16. The urgency of the global situation is such that the foundation work of activating the totality of humankind via the Global Cooperative Forum must happen now, so that, during the next few years, there can be global conversion of all systems to a right functioning in the context of the total system.

Adi Da

#17. I'm functioning on a lung and a half, but I have proved that it's possible to challenge yourself.

Stefanie Powers

#18. You can't keep a democracy going in a functional and constructive way if only 10 percent of the people you represent think your institution is functioning in an acceptable way. That's just not viable.

John Sarbanes

#19. Some of the indicators of a properly functioning GI tract include having two bowel movements a day, feeling good after eating, sleeping soundly, having energy throughout the day, and experiencing no extreme mood swings or food cravings.

Teri Arranga

#20. Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other.

Gene Hackman

#21. Function and man appear synonymous because the function can only be pointed toward by being the function. There is no being except in a mode of being. [ ... ] Both scholar and Christian are functioning in identical ways, just under different metaphor, and both are evading the mechanics of being.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

#22. Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

James Hillman

#23. Incapable of emotion - high-functioning Asperger's Syndrome with areas of prodigious savant skills.

J.A. Huss

#24. The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.

Tariq Ramadan

#25. Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

Ernest Hemingway,

#26. The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.

Boris Sidis

#27. A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation of laws and mores ... Capitalism is a government program.

George Will

#28. If those with pre-existing conditions can be covered separately and removed from the broader insurance market, it would make it easier to create a functioning free market for everybody else.

Philip Klein

#29. If a child hasn't been given spiritual values within the family setting, they have no familiarity with the values that are necessary for the just and peaceful functioning in society.

Eunice Baumann-Nelson Ph.D PENOBSCOT

#30. Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.

Toshihiko Fukui

#31. Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time?

Lauren Zalaznick

#32. Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leaves a large part of the personality unaffected by the trauma.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#33. Since the brain is unlike any other structure in the known universe, it seems reasonable to expect that our understanding of its functioning - if it can ever be achieved - will require approaches that are drastically different from the way we understand other physical systems.

Richard Restak

#34. I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I'm a better husband, I'm a better father, if my body is physically functioning at the highest possible levels.

Willi Smith

#35. BEAUTY...has its own language..
The 'expression' of a Spontaneous Fully Functioning Self..
If 'Spontaenity' is missing, start questioning the 'reality' of it..!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#36. The paradox is that, while a concern with past and future is obviously central to psychological functioning, to behave as though one were indeed in the past or future, as many do, pollutes the lively possibilities of existence.

Erving Polster

#37. The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

John Lanchester

#38. In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

Gary Hamel

#39. It takes tremendous energy to keep functioning while carrying the memory of terror, and the shame of utter weakness and vulnerability. While

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#40. We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.

Peter Drucker

#41. New research into cognitive functioning - how the brain works - proves that bullet points are the least effective way to deliver important information. Neuroscientists are finding that what passes as a typical presentation is usually the worst way to engage your audience.

Carmine Gallo

#42. The technologically-aided destruction of old, mechanical professions drives us to higher-functioning tasks that tap more fully into what makes us human.

Winston Damarillo

#43. For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.

Lou Gramm

#44. One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship.

John W. Gardner

#45. We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

Sigmund Freud

#46. That's essentially what Zen practice is about: functioning from moment to moment.

Charlotte Joko Beck

#47. My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work.

Jeffrey Jones

#48. Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.

Wayne Dyer

#49. Something happens when you become an elder rock & roller and you're still functioning. People start to give you awards and recognize achievements. It's the life achievement period of your career.

Geddy Lee

#50. If you fall into poverty, live that way without grumbling - then your poverty will not burden you. Likewise, if you are rich, live with your riches. All this is the functioning of Buddha-nature. In short, Buddha-nature has the quality of infinite adaptability.

Philip Kapleau

#51. Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its very lifeblood. For reason and scientific method can flourish only in an atmosphere of civil liberties.

Corliss Lamont

#52. Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins do not mean-revert, then something has gone badly wrong with capitalism. If high profits do not attract competition, there is something wrong with the system and it is not functioning properly.

Jeremy Grantham

#53. The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning.

Lewis Black

#54. She smiled as though someone had just offered her, the oldest virgin in town, a fully functioning Kingsize Vibro vibrator and a deluxe inhibition bypass.

Andrew Barrett

#55. Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.

Stephen Graham Jones

#56. It was smaller than the Kidwells', and, moreover, he shared it with a wife, three active children, and a perpetually functioning television set. ("It's the only way we can keep the kids pacified.

Truman Capote

#57. The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 10 14 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.

Carl Sagan

#58. In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#59. The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet.

Mary Bono

#60. If you could find a major city that actually had a functioning, good public school system, you should buy all the real estate.

Sam Zell

#61. Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

Henepola Gunaratana

#62. The struggle against an obstacle inevitably propels the fighter to a new level of functioning. The extent of the struggle determines the extent of the growth. The obstacle is an advantage, not adversity. The enemy is any perception that prevents us from seeing this.

Ryan Holiday

#63. You don't die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world.

Abhijit Naskar

#64. We both had hang-ups, insecurities, and an addiction to each other that required regular contact to keep us functioning properly. I hated being apart from him. I rarely went more than a couple of hours without thinking of him.

Sylvia Day

#65. Real time functioning should have the PM and the CMs of the states working in tandem. The Federal structure is important in letter and spirit, it is our strength

Narendra Modi

#66. For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

Marya Mannes

#67. I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain it. But if it was not functioning at optimum levels, we would be doing the country a disservice by continuing to do things "like we've always done them."

John Ashcroft

#68. We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.

Paul Ryan

#69. Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.

Geeta Iyengar

#70. When we know our true nature, especially the functioning of the mind, we stop being judgmental and become an inspiration and support to others.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

#71. People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

Marcy Kaptur

#72. You have to understand as a marketer that consumers are functioning in the age of efficiency.

Mitch Joel

#73. Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.'

Elaine Sciolino

#74. We seize functioning as humans when we totally depend on miracles.

Sunday Adelaja

#75. The implausible, well-nigh-miraculous functioning anarchy that we know as New York is adorned with every excellence of Western art. It is a city of manifold suggestions, which ministers to every ambition, engenders a thousand talents, nurtures ingenuity and experimentation.

Ibn Warraq

#76. The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit

Carlos Castaneda

#77. Meditation will work on anyone who has a functioning human nervous system. All you need is the intelligence to follow simple instructions. Even children as young as 4 and 5 have been taught to meditate successfully.

Deepak Chopra

#78. The intellect is not the means of creation, and creation does not take place through the functioning of the intellect; on the contrary, there is creation when the intellect is silent.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#79. To get our economy back on track and keep it functioning properly without the problems of our financial institutions, we need reasonable regulations that will protect Main Street while at the same time allow Wall Street to do what it does best - make money for American investors.

Marsha Blackburn

#80. The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

Amy Goodman

#81. Calculated acts of sabotage requires a large network or culture of saboteurs, which indicates why the Russian sabotage did not work: rather than functioning together as a cohesive, machine-like system they permitted each other their own individual pace for operating.

Anonymous

#82. Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is ... Matter and energy are interrelated.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#83. The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.

Mark Steyn

#84. I don't think that I will say that we are less talented in Bollywood, but our functioning is different. We cater to a different kind of audience.

Anupam Kher

#85. When the whirlpool of thoughts is going on; that is known as the mind. At that time, the mind is functioning independently. That and the vrutis (tendencies of the chit) have no relationship. The tendencies arise later on, and then they go back and forth.

Dada Bhagwan

#86. Anybody with a functioning brain cannot not know that something is wrong.

Barbara Demick

#87. There is no doubt that the recognition by economists of the importance of the role of the firm in the functioning of the economy will prompt them to investigate its activities more closely.

Ronald Coase

#88. With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.

Osho

#89. Something was seriously wrong with Burnside. Either his mental apparatus wasn't functioning or he was grossly incompetent. Probably both.

Edward J. Stackpole

#90. Only functioning as a whole brain, IT can strike the right balance between stability and agility; creativity and standardization; innovation and risk intelligence.

Pearl Zhu

#91. That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

Sebastian Faulks

#92. In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.

Bjarke Ingels

#93. Designers need to be more than ambassadors, they need to be fully functioning and fully aware members of strategic decision-making teams in a company.

Nathan Shedroff

#94. Grinberg (1983), in exploring the analyst's professional identity, stresses a particular kind of curiosity regarding the mind and psychic reality, a curiosity that extends to the analyst's own psychic functioning; Grinberg

Otto F. Kernberg

#95. When you start the breathing, and the prana flow begins again after 13,000 years of not functioning, higher self may begin to take control of your life and purify it. By this, I mean that persons, places and things in your life that were blocking spiritual development will often leave you.

Drunvalo Melchizedek

#96. It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the id.

Gilles Deleuze

#97. I want a gun, Happy said immediately. "A really big gun. I want a fully functioning Death Star gun."
"Not even if Godzilla himself were to show up," said JC.

Simon R. Green

#98. America has no functioning democracy at this moment.

Jimmy Carter

#99. We have multiple Black men and women losing their lives simply for being. Who gets to say you don't get to live anymore? I don't understand that. And it doesn't stop there. Can we go into the school system and look at the imbalance of what our children are learning? We are functioning crazy, people.

Regina Belle

#100. The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.

Slavoj Zizek