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Function Quotes - Page 13

These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.

These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.

Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.33, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

I'm walking this walk and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

"Stephen Baldwin: 'Jesus or no Jesus, if my daughter started working in a strip club, I'd beat her ass'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

Who's got my Jaffa Cakes? You know I can't function without Jaffa Cakes.

Simon R. Green (2008). “Daemons Are Forever”, p.59, Penguin

Courage is a function of process.

"Jason Zweig Interviews Seth Klarman At CFA Institute Annual Conference". Interview with Jason Zweig, www.gurufocus.com. July 15, 2010.

Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.

Robert Warshow (1962). “The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre & Other Aspects of Popular Culture”, p.98, Harvard University Press

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.12, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

I felt it [Shakespeare's Coriolanus] is sort of an examination of our dysfunction as a nationalistic, tribal entities. I think the world is rocking and cracking open in weird and worrying places. And I think Coriolanus, the play, reflected that.

"Ralph Fiennes Talks THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, Collaborating with Wes Anderson, If He Will Direct More Shakespeare, and More in Berlin". Interview, collider.com. February 10, 2014.

The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.

Peter F. Drucker (2011). “A Functioning Society: Community, Society, and Polity in the Twentieth Century”, p.228, Transaction Publishers

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

"What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era". Book by Peggy Noonan, 1990.

As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. August 31, 2011.