Functions Quotes

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

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.

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

People at .08 are too impaired to drive. Studies show that at .08, the ability to perform critical driving functions is decreased by as much as 60 percent.

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient.

There are some very significant changes in the way the fluids are distributed in our body, the way our heart functions initially, and as well as our bone and muscle.

In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.

You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.

The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

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

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.

I'm a people person, very approachable. I go out every night, tons of functions. I love all facets of this industry... Music, film, TV, books, art. I love being around creative people.

My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena.

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.