Function Quotes - Page 8

I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.

To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.

Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough.

If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory.

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

People can't live with themselves much longer. The planet cannot live with humans much longer! We have the weaponry, destruction of the planet, pollution, destruction of forests, countless manifestations of humans using their intelligence in the service of the dysfunction, the madness. It's a strange juxtaposition. Humans are intelligent, but if you look at history or even watch TV, they're also incredibly stupid.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

We have to be careful that we don't keep multiplying disorders and diluting them. I think there is a difference. People talk about Asperger's as high-functioning autism, which I think it is. But it does have some of its own characteristics, like the preservation of language, particularly, which may be right brain dysfunction instead of left brain dysfunction, and we lose something in that, as things lose their specificity, and we keep diluting things. I'm not sure that's helpful.

The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.

Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

Adding functionality is not just a matter of adding code.

Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Quite simply, promotions are not just functions of ability, values, or the numbers you hit, but also rest critically on how you are perceived.

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.

Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed they won't function at all.

I know how my body operates differently from what it did when it was 30 and when it was 20. As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.

Labour is man's great function, his peculiar distinction, his privilege. Can he not think so? Can he not see, that from being an animal to eat and drink and sleep, to become a worker... He is nothing, he can be nothing, he can achieve nothing, fulfil nothing, without working.

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.