Function Quotes
A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.
"Jack Reacher" was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.
The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.
The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.
Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions.
Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.
Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.
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.
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.
The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function.
Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.
Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.
Sure I may look adjusted, but I can't function in normal society because most of you are too stupid.
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
To my mind, healing means returning a malfunctioning human body to full unrestricted function, not to remove parts of it by operation or amputation
It is not God's function to create or uncreate the circumstances of your life. God created You, in the image and likeness of God. You have created the rest.
I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.
When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.
If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.
The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.
Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.
Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for you. Your sole function will be to drink beer.
Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.
The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.
Design acknowledges change. Its meaning encompasses change in our times. To design is to 'create order and to function according to a plan.' The notion of change and design move along the same path.
I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function
The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.
The stereotype of aging as a progressive loss of function is generally true only for people who stop functioning.