Function Quotes

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The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions. — Alfred Hitchcock
The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so… — Charles Bukowski
Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train… — Neve Campbell
Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never… — Clayton Christensen
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to… — George Orwell
Everything in the phenomenal universe is straight line and circle. The horizon, our heads, arms, electrons, the oceans, planets and stars. Their principle function is… — Alonzo King
The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy. — Dean Koontz
The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly… — William James
Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created… — Joseph Campbell
I think one of poetry's functions is not to give us what we want... The poet isn't always of use to the tribe. The tribe… — Heather McHugh
The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child bearing.… — Dorothy Day
One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to… — Adrienne Rich
Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every… — Henry Ward Beecher
As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene… — Edward Lawrie Tatum
A coachâ€™s job is to put his team where it can function effectively and win, — Pete Carril
No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him. — Frank Pittman
America should function as a Christian nation. — Randall Terry
Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will… — R. D. Laing
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where… — Bjarne Stroustrup

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