Functional Quotes

177 quotes by 168 authors

I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can… — Alan Ball
Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional. — David Byrne
In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not. — John Hardon
The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain. — Carlos Castaneda
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence. — Maria Montessori
The number of possible "on-off" patterns of neuronal firing is immense, estimated as a staggering ten times ten one million times (ten to the millionth… — Daniel J. Siegel
The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has skill, but it… — Rajneesh
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are… — Kenneth Tynan
The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates… — Stephen Jay Gould
Your brain receives, stores, and processes information, dispenses results, and controls your biological equipment. When properly programmed, computers can do likewise, except that they control… — John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth
In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes,… — Ivan Pavlov
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only be tackled by… — Bridget Riley
It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only to those richly endowed with… — Marjory Stephenson
[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing-one great,… — Paul Halmos
A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist. — D. Todd Christofferson
When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this country are truly… — Robin Boyd
A balance is necessary in life. To achieve this we must move away from broad definitions of workplaces as functional and households as emotional. Similarly,… — Eva Cox
I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional. It… — Gil Garcetti
Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical knowledge. Within this… — Thomas Berry

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