Top 25 Function Quotes of 334 - Page 7

Hope is a function of struggle.

Struggle, Function

Brené Brown (2013). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.143, Penguin UK

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

William S. Burroughs

Happiness, Virtue, Function

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

Vincent Massey

Understanding, Function, Turns

"Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey. Address on the occasion of the Centenary of Trinity College, Toronto, Ontario, April 17, 1952, 1959.

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

Val Kilmer

Thinking, Selling, Function

The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress.

Thomas I. Emerson

Censorship, Function, Interest

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

Talcott Parsons

Personality, Function, Behalf

Talcott Parsons, Robert Freed Bales (1956). “Family Socialization and Interaction Process”, p.16, Psychology Press

Priority is a function of context.

Stephen Covey

Priorities, Time Management, Function

Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.653, Mango Media Inc.

Frustration is a function of our expectations.

Stephen Covey

Frustration, Expectations, Function

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.206, Mango Media Inc.

The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Mind, Want, Function

In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness.

Shauna Niequist

Graciousness, Function, Cases

Shauna Niequist (2010). “Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way”, p.11, Zondervan

The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Robert Brustein

Theatre, Talent, Function

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

Rick Perry

Democracy, Function, Active

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Exaggeration Is, Vices, Function

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

Michel Foucault

Punishment, Different, Function

Michel Foucault (2012). “Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison”, p.303, Vintage

Everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it and get it incorporated into prices.

Merton Miller

Investing, Information, Function

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

Melissa Gilbert

Dysfunctional Family, Grew Up, Grew

The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

Matthew Fox

World, Way, Function

Habits are a function of your subconscious mind.

Marshall Sylver

Mind, Habit, Function

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.

Malcolm Gladwell

Hard Work, Persistence, Function

Faith is the function of the heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Heart, Emotion, Function

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”