Function Quotes

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Lighting is not about function. It's much more about the mood and the emotion that the playwright and the director are trying to create. Our… — Jules Fisher
The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours. — Lee Adams
The experience of a century and a half has demonstrated that our system of free government functions best when the maximum degree of information is… — Brien McMahon
For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to… — Eleanor Roosevelt
...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory… — Tim Bray
Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the… — Hermann Hesse
We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a… — Joey Skaggs
I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its nature… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger
It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected. — William Plomer
There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew.… — Rider Strong
In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function. — Edmund Burke
Then the highest state of love is prayerfulness. In prayerfulness there is communion. In sex there is the I/it relationship, in love the I/thou relationship.… — Rajneesh
Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble. — Marya Mannes
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a… — Stephen Covey
As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings… — Stephen Covey
It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and… — Samuel Johnson
It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first and second half… — B. C. Forbes
It appears that a simple rule, of something adhering to another similar idea, repeated, leads to stabilities. This seems to be a function of relational… — Cecil Balmond
Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions? For in this… — Peter Matthiessen
Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification. — Bertrand Meyer

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