Function Quotes
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Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt.
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I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.
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The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.
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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.
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Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.
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I am emotionally screwed up, but I put on a front and fake it so I can function. Sometimes I wonder how many other people are doing the same thing.
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For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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The relation of a building to its function needs to be much less schematic and formal if you want to produce good architecture.
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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.
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The whole function of cities has been transformed.
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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.
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The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.
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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.
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When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no less than the physical one, is fateful for everyone concerned and in every society appears to come under strict normative regulation, giving rise to a kind of communication traffic order.
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The function of a guideline isn't to tell you what kids have actually experienced; it's to provide goals.
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Praying as a public function, particularly when led by a clergyman, is a vulgar display of an exclusively personal matter.
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When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.
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True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience
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There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.
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The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.
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Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far—reason. For by the possession of this function he exceeds the beasts to such a degree that he subdues. … You see, therefore, how much the gift of reason surpasses mere physical equipment.
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...a point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be moved, even in its first movements, from this center. It can no longer be tested by any force or trial, nor moved by the winds of change, and at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it.
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And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it
