Function Quotes
Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian."
Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.
Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being.
The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.
The current Eurozone is obviously dysfunctional. And serious people within Germany and elsewhere know this to be the case and know things cannot function this way forever.
The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress.
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork.
In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music - all with love. In other words, create a magic world.
Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.
To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader.
The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.
Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.
Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain.
We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.
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.
I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.
The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.
I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.
My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
To desire to be an artist is to desire to be a complete man in respect to some one function, to realize yourself utterly. A man is a poor thing who is content not to be an artist.
I read everywhere. It's like a bodily function. I don't need quiet. I write and read with the TV on. I follow the TV show while I read. TV doesn't require a lot of brainpower.
Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.
Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.
People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.
A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.
Intrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research.
Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.
No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.
Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.
Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself.
My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.
Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.
Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.
I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.
What's unique about transportation is that it's the one function that repeats itself throughout the supply chain.
If you can capture a womans imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.
I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.
What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.
A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.