People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge… — David Adam Copy Share Image
Wrath, unlike love, is not one of the intrinsic perfections of God. Rather, it is a function of God's holiness against sin.… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A real Master is not a teacher: a real Master is an awakener. His function is totally different from a teacher; his… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. — Robert Brustein Copy Share Image
I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I read everywhere. It's like a bodily function. I don't need quiet. I write and read with the TV on. I follow… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions. — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
A lot of people in this country are obese because of a form of malnutrition. One thing I'd like to do is… — Lori Silverbush Copy Share Image
The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To be enlightened doesn't mean you end up stupefied and unable to function. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the… — Robert Nozick 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
But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I'm always playing a role, whether it's the role of the mayor, the role of a news anchor, or a role of… — Jerry Springer Copy Share Image
In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Its such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, Im… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children? — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“The wave quality of light is the same as that of the electron. The wave determines the probable location of the photon… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
No matter how closely we look, it is difficult to find a mental act that can take place without the support of… — Moshe Feldenkrais Copy Share Image
Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
The home is the basis of a righteous life and no other instrumentality can take its place nor fulfill its essential functions. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. — George Santayana Copy Share Image