Function Quotes
Money is a function of value creation. The more value you create for other people, the higher the sales of your organization.
I don't think it's man's function to write. I don't think it's a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom. It's a supered position on the animal.
The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.
Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.
Like someone once said, "If you're going to play the part, you better wear the eye patch." You need to perform the function, you know.
Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.
Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp.
The Shariah has many other functions but also protects the tarqiah; it protects the spiritual path.
We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.
When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.
I will never stop trying to find new ways to promote healthy living. It's my passion and my mission to help others understand what's necessary for our bodies to function properly.
Recent rampage is a function of the exponential growth of populations and economies. It has to do with globalization and the steady increase in computational power.
I'm walking this walk and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?
As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.
Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.
True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.
Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.
These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.
All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.
We have the capacity to alter the nature of nature. No, we don't have just the capacity - we are altering the nature of nature, the natural systems that cause the planet to function in our favor.
The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.
The earth will solve its problems, and possibly our own, if we will let the earth function in its own ways. We need only listen to what the earth is telling us.
There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move.
The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open.
Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.
What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.
...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.
A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.
I know stereotypes have a bad reputation, people say, "Oh, you shouldn't stereotype people," but I think it's important to recognize that we couldn't function in the world without stereotypes.
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
I absolutely believe the species, the planet and the Universe can't survive if we function on hate.
The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.
We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.
All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.
The instant people specialize, its in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.
One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.