Function Quotes · Page 21

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

— John Dewey

One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there.

— Gwethalyn Graham

Quite simply, promotions are not just functions of ability, values, or the numbers you hit, but also rest critically on how you…

— Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a…

— Aristotle

Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized…

— Ludwig von Mises

I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I…

— Ben Brantley

State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly.

— Charles Duhigg

There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.

— Nicholas Sparks

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level…

— Anna Friel

In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack…

— John N. Bahcall

I think the personal and psychological aspects of war remain the same. War is about killing and dying. A man or woman…

— George Friedman

In his condemnation [Karl] Marx referred to institutionalized religion,that has precisely the function of anesthetizing men till they do not notice the…

— Erich Fromm

The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect…

— Alice Miller

Jackie O was so capable in so many ways. Hillary tried to redefine the role when she got into public policy, and…

— Bellamy Young

I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of…

— John Travolta

The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do…

— August Krogh

Money is indispensable to a long-circuit heavy load energy system. It must be used when a sufficient surplus is being produced to…

— Isabel Paterson

I consider that all Jews in the Diaspora, and thus it is true in France, should everywhere they can lend their support…

— Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first…

— George Will

The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo,…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective…

— James Clerk Maxwell

The most interesting characteristic of the cube is that it is relatively uninteresting. Compared to any other three-dimensional form, the cube lacks…

— Sol LeWitt

If a hungry lion suddenly appeared, you'd be terrified. So terrified you'd probably run away. Great, fear's doing its job. But you…

— David D. Burns

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge…

— Albert Einstein

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

— Maynard James Keenan

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

— Gertrude Stein

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was…

— Aaron Yoo

The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle…

— Carl Jung

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

— Steven Pressfield

SUCCES is not to be what but when you can perform the function of what well, that's the real SUCCESS.

— Anonymous

To my mind, healing means returning a malfunctioning human body to full unrestricted function, not to remove parts of it by operation…

— Rudolf Breuss

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

— William Plomer

The current Eurozone is obviously dysfunctional. And serious people within Germany and elsewhere know this to be the case and know things…

— Tariq Ali

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

— John Murphy

What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can…

— H. L. Mencken

I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

— Dave Eggers

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

— Clive Bell

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

— Ang Lee

I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have…

— Arthur C. Clarke