Function Quotes - Page 4

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself.

It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.

Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.

Form follows function straight to hell.

The greatest malfunction of spirit is to believe things.

Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.

What we are left with is an overmanipulated economy that can't function normally.

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

The function, what a nice form!

Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open.

People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.

An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

Most people suffer from the self limiting dysfunction "rear-view mirror syndrome" driving through life with their subconscious mind constantly looking in their own self-limiting rear-view mirror. They filter every choice they make through the limitations of their past experiences. Always remember that your potential is TRULY unlimited, and that you are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of achieving everything you want as any other person on earth.

No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet.

We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal.

the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.

The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.

The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.

There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.

I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.

Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.