Function Quotes · Page 47

Polish the heart, free the six senses and let them function without obstruction, and your entire body will glow.

— Morihei Ueshiba

For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very…

— Jaggi Vasudev

The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding…

— Edward Abbey

I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for…

— Britt Ekland

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic…

— Frederick Pollock

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified…

— Emma Goldman

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

— Glenn Greenwald

We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does…

— Michel de Montaigne

The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function…

— Louis O. Kelso

If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality.…

— Itay Talgam

My comic sense, although deliberately Americanized, is, in its intent, much closer related to the crazy wisdom of Zen monks and the…

— Tom Robbins

I am in a fabulously lucky position in that I get to wear beautiful, beautiful gowns for functions, which I can then…

— Helen Mirren

A president is a high-level official who is elected to carry out a function. He is not a king, not a god.…

— Jose Mujica

“When you are depressed you are not at peace. You are not at peace because you are not using your creative potential.…

— Kate McGahan

[L]et us say that we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order…

— Michel Foucault

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know…

— Ayn Rand

Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in…

— Hermann Weyl

In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on…

— Auberon Waugh

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present…

— Anonymous

We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of…

— C. D. Darlington

I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause…

— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second,…

— Plato

1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are…

— Jacques Derrida

Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's…

— David Stern

My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

— George H. W. Bush

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

— W. Edwards Deming

Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing.

— Carl Jung

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really…

— June Jordan

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

— Lawrence Bossidy

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

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Charles Duhigg

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

— Maynard James Keenan

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

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