as I became Speaker in 1986, I made a point of setting up a public information office to respond to requests and… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person, is imperfect,… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy. — Charles Tart Copy Share Image
It is not the function of religion to answer all the questions about God's moral government of the universe, but to give… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
There are many fans of hard rock music that have been wrongly pigeonholed as apathetic. This music is not music for the… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
One of the powerful functions of a library-any library-lies in its ability to take us away from worlds that are familiar and… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however… — Ernest Starling 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
If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Abortion is a moral right-which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this… — Jaggi Vasudev 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
In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and… — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how… — Nick Murray Copy Share Image
Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are - or else to close them down. They are specialized… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Vision is the Source and hope of life. The greatest gift ever given to mankind is not the gift of sight, but… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
The first thing we better get going is strengthening our economy, because if we don't have a strong economy, we can't pay… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
If form follows function, as we know it does in this Universe, then consciousness will adapt to whatever form it requires in… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
The nervous system functions in a fourth, unique way, as different as dreaming is from sleeping as sleeping is from waking. When… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
Integration proceeds by just the opposite route: a deliberate heightening of every organic function; a release of impulses from circumstances that irrationally… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I do think that it is legitimate to talk of goals and functions in nature, and that these things can be made… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
These problems have been here so long that the only way I’ve been able to function at all is by learning to… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
