Function Quotes

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Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better. — Peter Shaffer
Happiness, for me, is a function of the number of people I love, and I think joy and happiness is directly related to how many… — Mitt Romney
To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself. — Buzz Aldrin
The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies… — Jim Webb
We may regard the solar systems as separate sponges, swimming in a World of Divine Spirit, and thus it will be apparent that in order… — Max Heindel
A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not… — Jean Giraudoux
Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself. — Lindsay Wagner
The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience. — Mitch Kapor
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any… — Aristotle
The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx,… — August Krogh
Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure. — Henry Petroski
Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution. — Henry Petroski
Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They… — Henry Petroski
Too much redesign has to do more with fad and fashion than with fitness and function. It is change for the sake of change. Such… — Henry Petroski
I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to… — Kevin Spacey
Neurobiological research has shown that in people with chronic PTSD, both stress hormone secretion and areas of the brain connected to memory function, such as… — Siri Hustvedt
I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and… — Damien Chazelle
I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function… — Myles Munroe
There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products… — John O'Toole
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. — Ralph Nader

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