“Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.” IfsWorldWritingEndsDreamHappensAbleSleepMorningGoneMiddleBedFunctionWake UpAwakeShallowSurroundingsSession Author:Stephen King
“How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see the importance of recording and not let it move in any other direction? Very simply: you insult me, you hurt me, by word, gesture, by an actual act; that leaves a mark on the brain which is memory. That memory is knowledge, that knowledge is going to interfere in my meeting you next time obviously.” MindEndsMovingNextHurtMemoriesBrainFunctionImportanceMarkMeetingsInsultGesturesInterfereNext TimeHurt MeYou Hurt MeSimply You Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions.” EndsGovernmentSchoolPoliticalIndividualChurchDirectOrganizationFunctionInstitutionsZen Motorcycle Maintenance Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.” EndsPoliticalPracticeDangerFunctionActivismReach OutRepresentationSurrogates Author:Angela Davis
“The lesson I have learnt is that when a family and a business function, they function together. You have to have a family that works and a business that works and the two will end up working well alongside.” WellsTwoEndsTogetherLessonsFunction Author:John Elkann
“Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.” IfsShouldMindKindEndsMatterStatesGovernmentHappensIndividualNeededFunctionPrejudiceChiefsOfficialsIndividualismInitiativeConformInsistenceGovernment Officials Book:Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18 Source: Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18