Function Quotations | Page 2

Capitalism actually encourages morality because capitalism can't function well if people can't trust each other and people aren't honest, if a deal isn't a deal.

Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do.

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.

There are many females in my life I couldn't function on a daily basis without who I've purposely put there that work with me.

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.

Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.

Cinema isn't just a good medium for translating graphic novels. It's specifically a good medium for superheroes. On a fundamental, emotional level, superheroes, whether in print or on film, serve the same function for their audience as Golden Age movie stars did for theirs: they create glamour.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

Most of us function under the model we have to get something in order to do something, in order to be something. If this happens, then I will be happy. And I'm suggesting to you that we live our entire lives based on that model, and that model is fundamentally flawed.

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.

In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

You see people on TV flying in to places just to pick up a baby, or brush some flies away. That's great if they can bring that issue to public attention. But that's not what I wanted to do. I was interested in committing to something that I could function in whether I was Debra Winger or not. Because nobody might care about that next week.

As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon - it's a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

Mine is a job that never ends, a function where it is almost impossible to set aside time to rest or take a breather.

Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.

If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also.

I know how my body operates differently from what it did when it was 30 and when it was 20. As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

Life being so short, and the possible books to write so many, it's good to function by night as well as by day; but would anybody become a writer if they realised at the outset what the working hours were?

People ask me what's the most important function when you're starting an organization or setting up the kind of culture and values that are going to endure. The discipline I believe so strongly in is H.R., and its the last discipline that gets funded.

One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.

It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid out in claims is another dollar made in profits for the company.

There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service.

Unrelieved stress affects almost every function of the body, causing insomnia, high blood pressure, constipation, depression and an assortment of anxiety-driven aches and pains.

There are countries like Paraguay and others, their neighboring countries, they're all interested in being able to grow and function in a manner that's free of external influence and to do things in ways that fit their history and their circumstance,

We're going to have robots in the home, but they're not going to be walking. Legs are complicated, unreliable and costly. Robots are going to look and be designed to meet the function they're supposed to perform. People will still name them and connect with them.

Very few studies have examined the influence of neighborhood conditions on physical disabilities. We found the quality of the neighborhood had a very high impact on lower-body function in the people we surveyed.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.

I function better when my back is to the wall.

What these open government laws do is break down that wall of government secrecy so that everybody knows what's going on. A democracy can only function if we have information. You can only have oversight of government if you have information.

Whenever something like that happens, it's always a function of poor organization less than poor talented people.

We want it to be a private event and corporate function venue, rather than a vertical drinking establishment. We are in negotiations with the police, with whom we are building bridges. They are fairly receptive and co-operative. It's really a question on agreeing on wording.

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.

Form follows function straight to hell.

The dash helps to indicate that the two thoughts are intimately related, and it's less stodgy than a semicolon, which would have performed the same function (and who talks in semicolons?).

Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

We'll see. We might not do it at all, ... That might just be smokescreen because we do have other venues that we attack with. To have the emergence of Earnest Graham is big. We all know that Pittman can function in any formation and Carnell is a guy we think can be great, so yeah, we're really excited. It's been a while.

You can't suppress Bodily Functions

We always correct people who say, 'You're trying to make this look better.' Well yes, we want it to look better, but that's easy. The look and the function are one and the same. They are not separate. It looks good because it functions beautifully. That message is very hard.

Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.

I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.

It is not music's function to express rational necessities.

what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.

It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

We want to change the way people look at art, what its purpose can be, what social function it has. It can be playful and fun.

The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.

What we lack is a coordinated public information system in the event of a major incident. What we need is a system that will function instantaneously and automatically every time. . . . That doesn't exist now.

There are no longer really state economic systems that can function by themselves. Most of our largest corporations are in every major market in the world. We're intertwined.

There are different cowboy boots. There's fashion with function and the boot for utility. Basically, it's Fifth Avenue or fashion in the Western world.

We hope to dispel some of the myths, identify knowledge gaps, sort out some of the issues related to juniper woodland expansion and increase the overall understanding of western juniper place and function in the northern Great Basin.

I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.

We have quite a few styles that perform more than one function to fulfill small- or limited-space needs. Most of Ikea's furniture is designed around the European market, which is calling out for smaller-scale items.

We've seen growing respect for NGOs' impartiality, which is a function of a long-term trend of people losing faith in the impartiality of scientists.

The creation of this new set of professional qualifications, which will be recognized on an international level, will raise the profile of the compliance function even further and help create a respected career path for compliance professionals across the world. This can only serve to reinforce the integrity of global markets and increase investor confidence.

Hope is a function of struggle.

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals

Privacy is a function of liberty.

We have had success getting guys through here with this injury, ... I know it's magnified when it's your quarterback or a player of his magnitude. I understand how it becomes magnified, but we have a track record of being able to manage that injury, and we will see if we can't do the same. If he can't function at some point, we'll shut him down.

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.

The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

We need to make sure everything was above-board, ... It's an important business, an important sector of our economy and we can't function without that. We need to make sure other types of companies aren't facing that same type of problem.

There are people who really believe in and fear of ghost. Some of them even are too afraid that cause their minds and senses are no longer function properly to be able to distinguish whether something is ghost or else.

Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.

Legislators of all people should understand that we have three branches of government, and the ultimate function of the judiciary is to determine cases under the constitution.

Legalized sports gambling in Nevada serves a very important function of providing a watch over fixed games. There's no question about that.

She's really, really athletic and she's got an athletic mind. You can put her anywhere and she'll function well.

Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.

Share buybacks are just a necessary financial function in modern markets, something you have to do almost regardless of stock price. It's almost like paying your bills.

Mote's function is doing the research, not advocating which (method) can or cannot be used but which is most effective, and which has adverse effects on the environment.

Meditation is coming into the workplace as stress management. Stress acts directly on productivity. Stressed workers don't function very well. They don't turn up to work on Monday mornings.