Function Quotes

I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine.

A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.

It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

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.

Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work.

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices.

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

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.

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.