Function Quotes - Page 2

If you analyse the function of an object, its form often becomes obvious.

Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.

There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.

Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried.

I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure".

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.

The form follows the function.

Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that are adopted, and in the evaluative self-reactions to one's own behavior.. Problems at any one of these points can create self-dissatisfactions and dejection. dysfunctions in all aspects of the self system are most apt to produce the most chronic self-disparagement and despondency

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open up to one another. And if that sounds touchy-feely, let me explain, because there is nothing soft about it. It is an absolutely critical part of building a team. In fact, it’s probably the most critical.

To serve the Word is to fulfill the highest function of which man is capable.

Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it

The creature we finally ended up building is biomechanical to the extent that he has physically grown into, or maybe even out of, his seat, - he's integrated totally into the function he performs.

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.