Function Quotes - Page 11

What's unique about transportation is that it's the one function that repeats itself throughout the supply chain.

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself.

If you grew up in a dysfunctional family, then there is really no hope for you to have a good relationship. That is another myth that we have to throw off, so that we can get into what I call Reality.

Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air.

Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure.

Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree that humanity, and probably the planet, would not survive for another hundred years if human consciousness remains unchanged.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are.

The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part.

The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed.

A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions.

If you're playing someone who's impeded by fear, or shyness, or has whatever dysfunction your character might have, you have to achieve the dysfunction first, imaginatively, in order to play someone who is trying to negotiate their way out of it.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.

Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.

I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

I find it gross to talk about bodily functions like shitting or farting or your period, if you're a girl, unless it's extremely necessary.

The quality of your life is a function of who you go through life with.

Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

"What is normal?" really becomes the question. What is normal, and how are we fooled into thinking it's something other than what we're doing at any given time. Every family has either a drug addict or an alcoholic or some sort of dysfunction that the family is dealing with. And I think the grace of this family is that they actually could be that far out there but also be forgiving, and be really human, and be human in front of each other without much shame.

Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.

The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world."

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.