Function Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

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.

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.

If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

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

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.