Quotes About Functions

#1. The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

Benito Mussolini

#2. Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

Nhat Hanh

#3. People at .08 are too impaired to drive. Studies show that at .08, the ability to perform critical driving functions is decreased by as much as 60 percent.

Frank Lautenberg

#4. These ... tables (values of trignometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences, are one of the most beautiful monuments ever erected to science.

Adrien-Marie Legendre

#5. We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

William James

#6. 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

#7. I may need you to accompany me to functions, and I want you dressed well. I'm sure your salary, when you do get a job, won't cover the kind of clothes I'd like you to wear."
"I don't have to wear them when I'm not with you?"
"No."
"Okay." Think of them as uniform.

E.L. James

#8. 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

#9. The business model should be such that the employees needed possess the lowest possible level of skill necessary to fulfill the functions for which each is intended.

Seth Godin

#10. It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn't go to parties or award functions because my cinema is not considered good enough. But now I keep my head high, and I am proud of what I am doing.

Rohit Shetty

#11. To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.

Margaret Mitchell

#12. It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.

Felix Morley

#13. The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content.

Stephen Wolfram

#14. Pressure on nerves causes irriatation and tension with deranged functions as a result. Why not release the pressure? Why not adjust the cause instead of treating the effects? Why not?

Daniel D. Palmer

#15. I believe that "government", as we know it today, should pull out of most things except for law enforcement and justice, national defense and foreign policy, and let the private sector, a "Grameenized private sector", a social-consciousness-driven private sector, take over their other functions.

Muhammad Yunus

#16. Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of identity laboratory in which social roles can be examined vicariously.

Richard Hornby

#17. Because of a mass media more interested in gossip and sensationalism than real issues, I would say a vast majority of the American public doesn't have a clue about how the Congress functions and what goes on.

Bernie Sanders

#18. For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

John Steinbeck

#19. Socially prominent people are very fond of disease, because it gives them a chance to have these really elaborate charity functions, and the newspaper headlines say 'EVENING IN PARIS BALL RAISES MONEY TO FIGHT GOUT' instead of 'RICH PEOPLE AMUSE THEMSELVES'.

Dave Barry

#20. What ages is not merely your functions and organs, but the whole of your nature, that particular person you have come to be and already were years ago.

James Hillman

#21. In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

Juan Goytisolo

#22. One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

C. G. Jung

#23. Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#24. There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.

H.L. Mencken

#25. Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air.

Frank Zappa

#26. There has to be something other than keeping busy that gives human life value, because our society so often functions as if 'productivity' and/or 'usefulness' are the measures of human value, and - particularly for artists - this is deeply problematic. We shouldn't given in.

Tasha Golden

#27. For a startup to overcome obstacles and succeed, it must foster limitless thinking. By hiring students into their first career job, you get to set their framework for how a company functions and instill them with your values for your company's culture.

Jay Samit

#28. What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

Parker Palmer

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.

Michael Gerber

#32. It must be obvious that the Reality we all encounter only works one way, and it functions that way regardless of what the experiencer believes.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#33. As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it follows that each must in the exercise of its functions be guided by the text of the Constitution according to its own interpretation of it.

James Madison

#34. If there's anything weirder than an introverted writer going to lots of social functions, it's an introverted writer being converted into an accidental guru.

Dani Shapiro

#35. One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Lewis Mumford

#36. Interruptions were sometimes more frequent than statements. The process, compared to a well-managed executive conference, was a slab of raw beef compared to a wiring diagram. Raw beef, however, functions better than a wiring diagram would, in its place - inside a living animal.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#37. 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

#38. Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

Kenneth L. Pike

#39. To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.

Jacob Needleman

#40. I don't want awards. I am not saying this like it's a case of sour grapes. It isn't. I have been to a couple of award functions, and I soon realised that it doesn't give me the kick that it does to others.

Emraan Hashmi

#41. The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.

Coleman Barks

#42. Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians. They all have their own understanding of how the brain functions and is structured. How do you get them all around the same table?

Henry Markram

#43. You realize that there is no free will in what we create with AI. Everything functions within rules and
parameters

Clyde DeSouza

#44. 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

#45. In practice, the Internet functions more frequently as a hive of distraction, a simulated world through which most of us flit from one context to the next ...

Steve Almond

#46. Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color." - - Unknown
"Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.

Albert Memmi

#47. To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

Angela Davis

#48. The bed in which we spend a third of our lives functions as a kind of protective haven for the true self, the subconscious refuge from the assault of the external world. The bed becomes the restorative womb, where the imagination is nurtured while our resting bodies are safe.

Keith Donohue

#49. In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead, they brush by with a haste and preoccupation that so defines a century of 'too little time'.

Joshua Krook

#50. Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different names: mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the difference in the modes - and not because of any real difference.

Ramana Maharshi

#51. The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous.

Herbert Wilf

#52. 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

#53. Not having insurance not only destroys your life, it destroys your fiscal life. It breaks up marriages. You cannot functions anywhere unless you have good health.

Charles B. Rangel

#54. That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression.

Ezra Taft Benson

#55. If anything ail a man," says Thoreau, "so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even ... he forthwith sets about reforming - the world."3

Eric Hoffer

#56. For some in Washington, it's become sport to pick on the federal workforce. I think they do so unjustly. The very foundation of a stable America is having a government that functions well. Many countries have dysfunctional governments, because they don't have a good government workforce.

Ken Salazar

#57. If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?

Nicholas Negroponte

#58. The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine

Carl Jung

#59. JavaScript derives its syntax from Java, its first-class functions from Scheme, and its prototype-based inheritance from Self. But

David Flanagan

#60. 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

#61. I'm not good with hospitals. The endless buildings, trees dotted around like apologies, and inside, it's job functions you can't understand and that air of incomprehensible busyness. Curtained-off beds and death settling like falling snow.

Harry Bingham

#62. A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.

Roy H. Williams

#63. Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

Maxim Gorky

#64. My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I used to buzz it. And my mother played piano and sang in the church choir for different functions. So there was always music in the house, jazz, gospel, or whatever. Especially jazz records.

Johnny Griffin

#65. In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.

Morarji Desai

#66. I don't consider this younger generation to be lost, quite the opposite, they must continue. It is up to them. The old political system no longer functions.

Enki Bilal

#67. 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

#68. In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other women and I'm expected to go to team meals, team functions.

Hope Solo

#69. Chapter 8: Exponential Functions Chapter 9:

Andrew Gloag

#70. The core of the consulting business is going in and essentially making yourself indispensible by eating the brain of the organization, meaning that the consultants go in and assume key functions in the organization.

Matthew Stewart

#71. No question; language can free us of feeling, or almost. Maybe that's one of its functions - so we can understand the world without becoming entirely overwhelmed by it.

Carl Sagan

#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. [L]anguage functions best when we mediate between the descriptive and prescriptive influences, changing the rules to better suit some things, but sticking to them for others.

John Wiswell

#74. Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.

Rene Dubos

#75. Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.

Gaston Bachelard

#76. It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

Jacki Weaver

#77. It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

J. Reuben Clark

#78. I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions - the absurdity of the thing.

Billy Connolly

#79. One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.

Anita Brookner

#80. Web services fits into the original vision of the ASP model in that there are these functions out on the Internet and you can just go out there and rent them.

Eric A. Meyer

#81. The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

Jean Piaget

#82. A researcher that has a brain that functions differently from their peers is at an advantage, as they can see things that the others cannot.

Steven Magee

#83. Think of your body as a program and your organs as functions. Yours organs are the functions, and they communicate by sharing information via variables that are taken as parameter for the organ and they do their own thing and the whole body functions in harmony.

Ivelin Demirov

#84. Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.

Tim Noakes

#85. In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

Anil Kapoor

#86. It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Epictetus

#87. 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

#88. Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.

John Kao

#89. You are nothing unless it comes from your heart. Passion, caring, really looking to create excellence. If you perform functions only and go to work only to do processes, then you are effectively retired. And it scares me - most people I see, by age twenty-eight are retired.

John C. Maxwell

#90. In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#91. I think one of poetry's functions is not to give us what we want ... The poet isn't always of use to the tribe. The tribe thrives on the consensual. The tribe is pulling together to face the intruder who threatens it. Meanwhile, the poet is sitting by himself in the graveyard talking to a skull.

Heather McHugh

#92. Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#93. our childhood is over now, Marshal. Mankind can survive very well without an intimate study of your susceptibilities but not, unfortunately, without your other functions and talents. Do you think I bring any child into the world to live for himself alone?

Dorothy Dunnett

#94. Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.

Douglas Coupland

#95. Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions.

M.F.K. Fisher

#96. The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity ... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.

Marshall McLuhan

#97. 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

#98. Technology represents intelligence systematically applied to the problem of the body. It functions to amplify and surpass the organic limits of the body; it compensates for the body's fragility and vulnerability ...

Shoshana Zuboff

#99. The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.

Alice Miller

#100. the essential feature of the Dissociative Disorders is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity,or perception

American Psychiatric Association