Function Quotes

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.

The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.

Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.

It's not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.

The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

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

When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

There's no other product that changes function like the computer.

Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.

The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.