Functioning Quotes

241 quotes by 207 authors

Since the brain is unlike any other structure in the known universe, it seems reasonable to expect that our understanding of its functioning - if… — Richard Restak
But if the brain is not like a computer, then what is it like? What kind of model can we form in regard to its… — Richard Restak
All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift. — Peter Senge
If we took 75% of the worldâ€™s trashed rangeland, we could restore it from agriculture back to functioning prairies â€” with their animal cohorts â€”… — Lierre Keith
Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its… — Corliss Lamont
White is associated with purity because the entire spectrum is functioning in unity. White is a healing color. White is appropriate for weddings because the… — Tae Yun Kim
Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids… — Aldo Leopold
We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical… — Edward Bernays
For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they… — Marya Mannes
The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the initiative Â– destroying… — Kurt Lewin
In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained… — Georges Canguilhem
Well, you know, there's depression and depression. What I mean by depression in my own case is that depression isn't just the blues. It's not… — Leonard Cohen
I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate. — Michael Connelly
A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes… — Maureen O'Hara
Oxygen plays a pivotal role in the proper functioning of the immune system. We can look at oxygen deficiency as the single greatest cause of… — Stephen Levine
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like… — Tony Abbott
I'm not using drugs to get high like many people think. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this sh-. It's… — Layne Staley
As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the world in which… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy. — Amartya Sen

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