Function Quotes - Page 6

Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem.

The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function.

Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions.

A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.

No system of balance functions automatically.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things?

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.

If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.

So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project

Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.

The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.

The woman's function is to fascinate men.

One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.