Function Quotes

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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other… — Alan Cooper
In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show the rule of… — Nadine Gordimer
To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success. — Jacob Needleman
To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master. — Rajneesh
The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no… — Gerhard Richter
Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too… — Raymond Chandler
One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self. — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created. — Ida Rolf
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things. — Maya Lin
In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you swim in your lane. That can… — Daniel H. Pink
The notion of dream interpretation far antedates the birth of psychoanalysis, and probably served an important function in most, if not all, historical societies. In… — Neel Burton
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive… — Parker J. Palmer
The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or â€œproveâ€) existence as such, or consciousness as such. These are irreducible… — Ayn Rand
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson
Normal muscles should function naturally in much the same manner as do the muscles of animals. — Joseph Pilates
No matter how much talent you have in your mind and spirit, if your body is not able to function, you are not able to… — T.D. Jakes
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure. — Xavier Becerra
Therefore, for me, living true to my self may be defined as: Making the daily choices in all areas of my life that are in… — Walt F. J. Goodridge
I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to… — Seth Godin

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