Function Quotes
A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people
Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.
Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.
Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.
Polish the heart, free the six senses and let them function without obstruction, and your entire body will glow.
Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.
A number of things in Dhalgren are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries when the book ends.
Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.
Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.
Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.
A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.
The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.
True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself.
In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.
I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.
Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.
Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
Emotional function and cognitive function aren't unrelated to each other. They're completely intertwined.
A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape.
The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.
There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.
My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.
The bodys immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.
Other people need a full night's sleep in order to function and be healthy and alert. But I'm different.
Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.
Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose the latter?
The vast majority of women musicians function under singular names like 'Cher' 'Madonna'. They have to get married almost immediately to preserve their honour.
The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.
The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.
I went and studied graphic design, because it seemed to me that advertising is more honest - the image actually has a function. But once I started on that, I realized that was really boring.
Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.
For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.
It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.
Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.
In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
That’s why girls have boyfriends. So you have someone to take you to boring functions.
I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.
I think we do have a better understanding now of how moral thought and discourse function.
I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.