Function Quotations | Page 8

The difference in lung function between the highest and lowest quintiles of vitamin D is substantial and greater than the difference between former and nonsmokers.

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words. - (Where I'm Likely To Find It)

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

Form ever follows function.

Form follows function.

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

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

When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.

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.

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.

What's unique about transportation is that it's the one function that repeats itself throughout the supply chain.

Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.

In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

The main function of color should be to serve expression.

CD4 being the level of the lymphocyte that indicates the level of your immune function.

My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

How people talk to each other absolutely determines how well the organization will function.

illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions ...

Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. You were unable to function, but were actively despising yourself for it.

Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.

America should function as a Christian nation.

Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.

The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself.

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

Warranty – A notice telling the buyer when the product that was just purchased will no longer function.

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

My goal is to eliminate positions where I can't function.

These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

The manager's function is not to make people work, it is to make it possible for people to work.

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.

[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.

An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.

Health is a function of participation.

Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?

Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.

Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

A cabinet is a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.

The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work.

The instant people specialize, its in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.

We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.

Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

I can function and I couldn't have ever done that before this treatment,

Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.

I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.

Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.

Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.

It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

Still glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide;The Form remains, the Function never dies.

Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

If each and every party involved in those commissions had asked me to testify, it would have completely undermined the function of government.

Staff officers of inharmonious disposition, irrespective of their ability, must be removed. A staff cannot function unless it is a united family.

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.

The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.

Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.

So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.

A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people

Faith is the function of the heart.

Faith is a function of the heart....

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

Making the inner meet the outer is the function of the artist.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world."

The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.

To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government as a barrier against foreign foes... is [one of the] functions of the General Government on which [our citizens] have a right to call.

Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.

Priority is a function of context.

Frustration is a function of our expectations.

You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look