Function Quotes
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A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
Tom Stoppard -
There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its grasp; and if, as a result of special circumstances, it is unable to establish a true connection, it does not hesitate to fabricate a false one.
Sigmund Freud
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Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening. Almost the way puns function.
Garry Winogrand -
Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.
Garry Winogrand -
Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.
Brian Tracy -
The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula.
Aristotle -
One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard, of pavement, of auto horn-all of these are urban essences; all are negations of wilderness.
Benton MacKaye
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I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.
Walt Disney -
Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.
Albert Einstein -
The square was finally cleared by armed carabineri with tears of laughter streaming down their faces. The event set a record for hilarious civic functions, smashing the previous record set when Baron Hans Neizant B ompzidaize was elected Landburgher of K oln in 1653.
Mike Harding -
The European Union is here to help. But we are not here in a mediating function.
Javier Solana -
It is not the function of religion to answer all the questions about God's moral government of the universe, but to give us courage through faith to go on in the face of questions to which we find no answer in our present status.
Harold B. Lee -
The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.
Plato
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The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
Blaise Pascal -
As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and build walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any one person to grasp all at once, and thus bureaucracy was born. A bureaucracy breaks the complexity down into a series of interlocking systems. You don't need to know how the systems fit together, or even what function your bit of the system has, you just perform your bit and the whole machine creaks on.
Ben Aaronovitch -
A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all these species that future generations will want - you're saving the world for your children and your children's children. . . . The destruction of species is final. If you lose a species, you lose the genes, you lose all the potential drugs and potential foods that could be useful to the next generations. The ecosystems will not function as they have.
George Schaller -
A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.
Albert Szent-Györgyi -
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.
Alfred Russel Wallace -
I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.
George Washington
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A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.
Renzo Piano -
I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
Angela Davis -
The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which are realities. But doesn't reverie, by its very essence, liberate us from the reality function? From the moment it is considered in all its simplicity, it is perfectly evident that reverie bears witness to a normal useful irreality function which keeps the human psyche on the fringe of all the brutality of a hostile and foreign non-self.
Gaston Bachelard -
All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do their work, and then we see them subside. When they have reached their bloom, each returns to its origin. . . . This reversion is an eternal law. To know that law is wisdom.
Lao Tzu