Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working. — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America's… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
We do all kinds of things to remain beautiful yet we spend surprisingly little time taking care of what matters most: the… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Music brings people together. So my function in anything I do is to help bring people closer in. — Gord Downie Copy Share Image
The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a… — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing...… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the… — Peter Sarsgaard Copy Share Image
The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
“Some might question whether it makes sense to talk about setting up the experiment and running it again with exactly the same… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Imagine how differently American business would function were our faith in the power of goodness to replace our faith in the power… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It's been a real success - one of the great business successes in the United States - to break down organization, to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function. — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are. — Gary Wright Copy Share Image
When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state,… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize… — Maurice Blondel Copy Share Image
I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value? — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
The economic function of space industrialization is to generate jobs on Earth, not in space. — Krafft Arnold Ehricke Copy Share Image
Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Innate directs its vital energy through the nervous system to specialize the coordination and sensation and volition through the cumulative and vegetative… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
India must achieve the real goal?that is energy independence or an economy which will function well within total freedom from oil, gas… — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. — Robert Brustein Copy Share Image
