Function Quotes

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

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.

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.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution.

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.

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved.

This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.

Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.