Function Quotes

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I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well. — Jenny Slate
Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions. — Cal Thomas
I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites… — David Talbot
Any society has to delegate the responsibility to maintain a certain kind of order. Enforcing regulations, making sure people stop at stoplights. We can't function… — Joseph Stiglitz
Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated,… — Michel Foucault
... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we… — Michel Foucault
Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in… — Stephen King
My key to living an inspired life involves Embracing my history, Understanding the function of expectations and gently learning to have none; Recognizing the power… — Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation or immediacy to… — Mary Anne Radmacher
The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever… — Lydia Lunch
Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as… — Charles C. Mann
I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours -… — Erin Morgenstern
Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by… — Ernest Mandel
The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process… — Eva Zeisel
All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do… — Laozi
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective… — Gerhard Richter
Business only has two functions - innovation and marketing. — Milan Kundera
Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that world;… — Gerhard Richter
My pictures are devoid of objects; like objects, they are themselves objects. This means that they are devoid of content, significance or meaning, like objects… — Gerhard Richter
Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an… — Norman Mailer

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