Function Quotes
The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.
I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.
If you are not generous when it's difficult, you will not be generous when it's easy. Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet.
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.
Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.
No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
I regard texture similar to the function of taste buds in our mouths. But in a visual form. Texture does create a specific flavour which affects our senses.
Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.
The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
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.
But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.
Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here.
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
The dash helps to indicate that the two thoughts are intimately related, and it's less stodgy than a semicolon, which would have performed the same function (and who talks in semicolons?).
There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function.
My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some big incident, that we are losing our ability to function without it.
Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
I think our collective psychosis is hilarious. With the world moving as fast as it is, if we weren't dysfunctional, we couldn't function.
Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
In activities other than purely logical thought, our minds function much faster than any computer yet devised.
Weed's not as bad as everything else... 'cause weed is a background substance. You know what I mean, you can smoke some herb and still function. You ain't crisp... but you'll function.
Whenever you interact with people,don't be there primarily as a function or a role,But as a Field of conscious Presence
The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.
The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens.