F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Functional exercise is not defined by what it looks like, it's defined by what it produces”
“Functional goods sold en masse earn a good return but breakthrough profits come from satisfying emotional needs.”
Source: Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth
“Functional neurological and psychosomatic disorders are often a manifestation of a maladaptive response to the mistakes made by the human system of perception.”
Source: The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
“Functional societies need algorithms which reward us for being of service to those who need it most. Instead we have algorithms which reward us for being of service to those who need it least”
Source: Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale
“Functional things cannot thrive in dysfunctional systems.”
“Functionality is an asset, but code is a liability.”
“Functionality is overrated.”
Source: The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
“Functionality of resources plays a pivotal role in defining quality education, as the effective utilization of resources directly impacts the learning outcomes and experiences of students.”
“Functionality should follow sensuality, not the other way round.”
“Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward towards something.”
“Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.”
“Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."”
“Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.”
Source: The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns
“Fundamental [tax] reform almost always runs the risk of making things worse.”
“Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.”
Source: Pound/Joyce; the Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce: With Pound's Essays on Joyce
“Fundamental analysis seeks to establish how underlying values are reflected in stock prices, whereas the theory of reflexivity shows how stock prices can influence underlying values”
Source: The Alchemy of Finance
“Fundamental and flagrant contradictions rarely occur in second-rate writers; in the work of the great authors, they lead into the very center of their work.”
“Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are so hard to overcome because they are irrational and therefore do not yield to logical argument.”
“Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.”
Source: The Mayor of Casterbridge
“Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.”
“Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“Fundamental movements are generally preoccupied with criticism, and with a desire for revenge and justice, a justice which is not tempered by mercy. ... Criticism, even when justified, can attract so many enemies that any spiritual possibilities one may have will be jeopardised because, to put it in its mildest form, having many enemies means having no peace.”
Source: The Mystical Way and the Arthurian Quest
“Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.”
“Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.”
“Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.”
“Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.”
Source: Science and Philosophy
“Fundamental questions are being asked about the future of the Eurozone and therefore the shape of the EU itself. Opportunities to advance our national interest are clearly becoming apparent. We should focus on how to make the most of this, not pursue a parliamentary process for a multiple choice referendum.”
“Fundamental reasons create technical charts, but not the opposite. That is, technical charts cannot change fundamental reasons.”
“Fundamental relationships are being called into question, as is the very basis of marriage and the family. I can only reiterate the importance and, above all, the richness and the beauty of family life.”
“Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change”
“Fundamental rights are for everyone and have to be respected by everyone. But we can't be naïve in dealing with those who are abusing the principles protecting fundamental rights.”
“Fundamental rights are not a given today. We have to protect them.”
“Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being.”
“Fundamental rule in your life, is to know what your deserve in life and getting what you deserve. That's winning always.”
“Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system over which it had previously presided. The profound instability of the interwar period owed much to Britain's inability to maintain its role.”
“Fundamental to British politics is not the Scottish or Northern Ireland question, but the English question: can the English remake themselves and thus contribute to the making of a new Britain? [Christopher] Harvie's new-found scepticism answers: 'It will be very difficult given the nature of capitalism is so directed by the City of London. British particularism, the constitutional anomalies that make up the UK such as the bolt-holes for capital such as the Channel Islands are a product of a casino, carnivore capitalism.”
Source: Cencrastus No. 50: Winter 1994
“Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.”
“Fundamental, Bible believing people do not have the right to indoctrinate their children in their religious beliefs because we, the state, are preparing them for the year 2000, when America will be part of a one-world global society and their children will not fit in.”
“Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.”
“Fundamentalism and nationalism turn the brain into broccoli.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts of the world. Let us hope that a dialogue between the followers of the three great monotheistic religions could help in putting an end to this.”
“Fundamentalism fills you with answers before you even think to ask the questions.”
“Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is simply orthodoxy without the Holy Ghost. Everywhere among conservatives we find persons who are Bible-taught but not Spirit-taught. They conceive truth to be something which they can grasp with the mind.”
“Fundamentalism in most of its forms is the active creation of antibodies to some threatening [god] virus. As long as threatening religions or mutations [heresies] are present, fundamentalism will churn out antibodies to keep the population under control and prevent mutations from getting out of hand.”
“Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals.”
“Fundamentalism is a kind of decision not to change your mind about something...Many of us are fundamentalists...because it worked pretty well for us.”
“Fundamentalism is another problem. I mean, Dawkins in a way is almost a fundamentalist himself, of another kind.”
“Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy.”
“Fundamentalism is only a problem if the fundamentals are a problem”