Function Quotes - Page 9

If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.

The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.

I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.

With words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

Wear whatever makes you less sad and feels right when it's on. Don't wear too many things that serve no function. Wear what you can wear on a bicycle. Wear what you can run in or survive in if necessary. If something feels right, wear it all the time. Don't look too cool. Keep some things in!

Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequality—and the harder we compete, the more unequal we become.

Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

Sometimes you have to rely on sex and bodily functions.

On his contract negotiations with the Devils: It's beyond money at this point. They're not even treating him as a member of their family, unless it's a dysfunctional family.

Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.

I hate that word dysfunction.

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.

I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

And I think that, of course, there is some dysfunction of needing to be liked or noticed or to feel part of things, something going on there for most actors. For some there's not and I think they really struggle with it.

The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous.

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing

The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.