Function Quotes

And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it

The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.

What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder thing.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Faith is a function of the heart.

It is not music's function to express rational necessities.

The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.

As long as somebody is guaranteed a certain number of sales you know you're gonna keep seeing these vanity projects. I mean they have a place, they serve a function they can bring people into comics.

The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.

Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.

Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.

Ask Bill [Gates] why the string in [MS-DOS] function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer. Only I know that.

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

Scoring is a function of great execution, and winning is the result, but thinking about winning can pull your focus off of proper execution in a competition. Thinking about process is the answer.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.

The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work.

I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception

Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and stays away.

The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.

Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.

The only purpose of advertising is to sell. It has no other function worth mentioning.

Privacy is a function of liberty.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think

The photographer must be absorbent - like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment... His technique should be like an animal function... he should act automatically.

The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.

The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.

Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.

Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.

The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.