Functioning Quotes

241 quotes by 207 authors

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. — Chinua Achebe
Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a… — Evan Bayh
I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this… — Xavier Becerra
It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that. — Bill Bryson
A functioning police state needs no police. — William S. Burroughs
Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing. — Maynard James Keenan
Man is not only part of a field, but a part and member of his group. When people are together, as when they are at… — Max Wertheimer
All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of… — Ludwig von Mises
What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our… — Kathleen Turner
Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in community, and from… — Charles R. Swindoll
Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other. — Gene Hackman
Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these… — Vernon Howard
You shout and the valleys shout, or you sing and the valleys sing. Each heart is a valley. If you pour love into it, it… — Rajneesh
Remember, intelligence is not part of the mind. Intellect is, but intelligence is not; hence, the intellectual is full of mind but in life he… — Rajneesh
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and… — H. L. Mencken
American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. — Christine O'Donnell
Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know it is to… — Rajneesh
In samadhi, in the highest form of meditation, the same thing happens: the mind stops functioning... but you are conscious. That is the only difference,… — Rajneesh
You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you want to attain… — Rajneesh
In the moment of deep creativity you disappear, God again starts functioning. — Rajneesh

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