Function Quotes
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You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.
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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.
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A new level of organization means a simplification of system function, and of the corresponding system structure, it also means the initiation of a process of progressive structural and functional complexification.
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Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.
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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don't function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I'm even ready to write.
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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
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The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.
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The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.
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Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.
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Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually [...] train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.
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Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words. - (Where I'm Likely To Find It)
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A lot of the weaknesses we have are based on a lack of lateral movement, which can set you up for injury. When you exercise in multiple planes, you see improvements in balance, mobility, and function.
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
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Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.
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As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.
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Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their special function or profession.
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As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.
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As far as documentaries go, I believe unreservedly that they serve an important function in our culture. I'd love to be able to make both documentaries and feature films simultaneously, but so far that hasn't happened.
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Frustration is a function of our expectations.
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Growing up, it was very clear that I was a member of a royal family with a potential function later on. The question was: when and how and if?
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The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.
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Art is a language, therefore, a social function.
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The entire repertoire of our life experiences can be accessed and activated from the body in movement …every part and function of the body can also be understood as metaphors for the expression of our being
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One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.
