Function Quotes

The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.

The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.

Radio is very popular [in Britain], but it doesn't connect us in the same way. It seems to have this community function.

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.

Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.

Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time.

If managers knew how deeply their behaviors could affect brain function - whether they are piling up too much work on someone or yelling at them for "motivational purposes", they would quit doing it.

So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.

A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. .. When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim towards reproduction.

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.

This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly self-interest, self-preservation.

Being yourself; not acting. You therefore can function near your own level of competence. Satisfy you own expectations rather than those of others.

There's no other product that changes function like the computer.

The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function.

Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.

The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.

The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function, are enabled to remain fully human.

The only religion which seems to have a function in time of war is the tribal religion which invokes a God as the exclusive protector of the nation which calls upon him.

The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.

CD4 being the level of the lymphocyte that indicates the level of your immune function.

Soul is not about function; it's about beauty, form, and memory.

Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?

The use of isoquants to describe the production function did not develop to any great extent until the thirties.

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.

I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the night.

The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours.

The jazz musician's function is to feel.

And I am a weapon of massive consumption And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function.

Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.

Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?

We have the most generous immigration policy, but what is a concern is when illegal immigrants come and undermine a variety of the systems that work in order to make our society function.

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.

Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.

If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.

We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow.

I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.