Function Quotes

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.

Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well.

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.

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.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

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.

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.

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.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people's concerns seriously.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.