Function Quotes
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Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.
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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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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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Frustration is a function of our expectations.
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Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
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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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How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?
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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 see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't change. Storytelling is a primitive tribal function. The elders sat around the fires and told these stories as a way to pass on the 'dos' and the 'don'ts.' That will never change.
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The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.
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Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
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Everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it and get it incorporated into prices.
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My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.
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Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.
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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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The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.
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People have always asked whether evolution is constantly driving onwards and upwards. Is there always going to be improvement? The answer is no: evolution is a progression of form and function, but it is not purposeful.
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Which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built.
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At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.
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To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.
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Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.
