Function Quotes
Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
Creativity is a force moving through us, and only through practice do we learn how to cooperate with it. The 'process' is like a muscle. It needs to be exercised in order to function effortlessly.
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.
The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.
The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order.
When I used a woman in my films or wrote a woman into my film, I wanted her to be a central point and a motivating point or a catalyst to function in the film.
I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.
Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.
The law of gratitude is universal. It is a natural function of the soul. All things upon this earth or in the universe operate and respond to love and praise.
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.
The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.
In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong.
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.
Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.
The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.
I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.
People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.
To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state of consciousness.
the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.
We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.
The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.
The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.
Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.
The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.
There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.