Function Quotes

One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.

When we function from a place of positive energy, the world around us becomes more positive.

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing

Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.

In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.

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

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.

For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very existence an offering.

Its just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.

Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence

We are, if anything - I do believe we function as a sort of editorial cartoon. That we are a digestive process, like so many other digestive processes that go on.

Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying.

How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?

Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.

All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.

I can’t function around a man if I know his ability to give pleasure.

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.

The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.

In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable.

Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.

I know how my body operates differently from what it did when it was 30 and when it was 20. As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

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.

Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.

Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.

The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.

It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.