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“In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions of incompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability to create. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completion date, then do it.”

Inspirational Needs States Energy Loss Ability Results Activity Function Satisfaction Release Items Completion Prioritize Completing

Author:William Arthur Ward

“Exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function…exercise has a profound impact on cognitive abilities and mental health. It is simply one of the best treatments we have for most psychiatric problems.”

Problem Ability Powerful Brain Exercise Tools Function Impact Mental Health Profound Treatment Most Powerful Cognitive Psychiatric Brain Function

Author:John Ratey

“I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.”

Ifs Political Ability Economy Influence Achieve Essentials Function Independent Institutions Objectives Committees Political Influence

Author:Ben Bernanke

“Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.”

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man. For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.”

Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt

“As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.”

Men Running Desire Ability Path Function Formulas Efficiency Maximum Gratification

Book:Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some big incident, that we are losing our ability to function without it.”

Ifs Reason Bigs Ability Technology Taken Becoming Losing Function Dependent Incidents

Author:Bruce Boxleitner

“The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.”

Thinking Humans Human Beings Ability Forget Consciousness Effects Self Help Function Ill Producers

Book:You Can be Happy No Matter what: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective

Source: You Can be Happy No Matter what: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective

“F. Scott Fitzgerald has an indespensible quote: 'The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at once and still retain the ability to function'. Or, as I like to call it, 'O.J. killed his wife, and the police are corrupt.'”

Mind Firsts Stills Two Ideas Ability Wife Tests Function Police Rate Scott Fitzgerald

Book:When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

Source: When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

“Your body's ability to function as a clean and efficient channel is limited by stiffness, lack of strength, and lack of endurance. Your mind's ability is limited by the way it thinks about itself, by the way you think about you. The process of yoga is one of undoing the obstructions and limitations in your body and mind that inhibit the free flow of creative life force.”

Source: Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln

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

Values Ability Numbers Function Promotion

Author:Sylvia Ann Hewlett