Function Quotes

Although your physical body was created, you are the one who makes this body function. In other words, you are the divine life known as God. I call it a life branching out from God.

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

God wants the world to function in an orderly way, not a chaotic way, so teaching humans to do what's right and what will make for the happiest life isn't going to be off limits.

To see those two characters [Steve Jobs and Andy Hertzfeld ] juxtaposed against each other shows an interesting dynamic of how gifted people might function differently in the world.

My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.

There can be many bars, wires that keep a person trapped. All of them don't have to have been created for the purpose of harming or caging the bird, but they still serve that function.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill comes out with bipartisan support.

The form came out of the function because it is for the audience that already knows the show, while hoping to get a new audience, too.

I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the answer." It's not an op-ed.

Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.

Writing does not numb, comfort, or soothe me. It does the opposite. It tends to excite me and reinscribe pain. It doesn't function as exorcism.

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what value they may have.

Nothing gets done (in Congress) unless it's bipartisan. And the reason that matters is that it's a function of reality.

The function of a great library is to store obscure books.

I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function - that's important, and fine, and I support it.

A democracy barely functions under the neoliberal system.

A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there is no simple notion of its being "for" some function.

I went into very deep research as to what exactly that meant and how sociopaths function psychologically and within the world.

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.

Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.

As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus the sense-making tools you have.

The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

I realized that when two people function well together at work, it doesn't matter if they hadn't seen each other for years. What they had before was still intact.

A coach's job is to put his team where it can function effectively and win.

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul.

The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.

I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the villain, I concentrate on what their perspective of the events is. Not even to justify them.

Writing's deeper function is to serve as a way to find shapes and names for the world as you have come to know it; to find on paper what you know and feel.

My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous.

Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.

My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.

[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic.

This is the way the mind functions: its whole interest is in that which you have not got.

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

I can't function without coffee and I cannot refuse chocolate. Drink I gave up years ago and don't miss it in the slightest. But I think I'd collapse without coffee.

Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.

The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.

It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.

The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error, or worse, to say that error means fraud, then we cannot function as scientists.

Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.