Function Quotes

You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

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 function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.

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.

Photography is simply a function of noticing things.

There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.

With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.

It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.

The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.

I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.

Lighting is not about function. It's much more about the mood and the emotion that the playwright and the director are trying to create. Our job is to support their poetic direction.

Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not merely to record what we see around us.

How people talk to each other absolutely determines how well the organization will function.

Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.

Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.

Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.

You have to have a government that does give both money and energy to function in a leadership role modeling giving for the people. Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.

The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return

The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.

An item must have a soul, it must function properly, be nice to hold and a pleasure to look at

In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.

Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function.

The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.

I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.

Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions.

Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object.

Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.

The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.