Quotessence
Home / Topics / Function Quotes

Function Quotes

Browse 2701 quotes about Function.

Related topics

IfsPeopleWayThinkingMenWorldHumansKnowsArtMindBodyWellsShouldGovernmentFormDoeMayNeedsGivingBrainSocialStatesImportantMeanBelieveIndividualIdeasDifferentArtistWholeCertainRealTwoUseHas BeensOrderWantFirstsLooksPoliticalPersonsFactsKindSeemsSelfWritingLawRealityScienceProblemValuesFeelsHelpingPurposeAbleStillsProcessReasonTryingChildrenEndsSoulStructureHuman BeingsMovingMatterObjectsNaturalArt IsLiteratureLongSpiritualActivityEconomyHeartPlayOrganizationUniverseAnimalLevelsCharacterI CanMadeMightPrimariesRolesAbilityConsciousnessEyeInformationJobsSchoolTermYearsActionCasesCultureExerciseMaterialsUnderstandingmore

Function Quotes

“Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same way. But let us never forget ... beyond Europe's borders, in a world where oppression and violence are very real, liberation is still a moral goal, and freedom and security still need defenders.”

WorldWayNeedsStillsRealCountrySometimesGoalDifferencesForgetMoralViolenceSecurityEuropeFunctionOppressionLiberationBordersAssumptionResolveNever ForgetNegotiationConsensusDefendersEuropean Countries
Author:George W. Bush
Create image

“Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.”

PeopleThinkingLoveProblemChallengesCompassionKnowingLove YouEmpathyAdvantageFunctionTrue LoveSolveIntellectFriendship LoveInsufficientCourage To LoveLove And CourageCompassion And Empathy
Author:Dean Koontz
Create image

“To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the occasional fulfillment of this function, to treasure ancient thoughts of others, to remember with incredulous amazement that the doctor universal is thought, is to confess our languor or barbarism. Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be." (Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote, 1939)”

ThinkingMenShouldBelieveIdeasRememberI BelieveNormalCapableDoctorsUniversalFunctionAncientEvery ManTreasureFulfillmentOccasionalGlorifyBarbarismAmazementBorgesRespiration
Author:Jorge Luis Borges
Create image

“Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”

BelieveIdeasRealActionLyingPoliticsI BelieveChangeTakenAliveImpossiblePolicyProduceDependsFunctionCrisisAvailableAlternativesInevitableNeoliberalismReal Change
Book:Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
Create image

“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”

ShouldFormSufferingEnemyFunctionPunishmentNew WorldPrincipalSymbolicBrave New WorldHuxleyBrave New World HappinessBrave New World FreedomBrave New World CharacterBrave New World TechnologyBrave New World ConsumerismBrave New World John
Book:Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books
Create image

“People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never occurred to them that plants were actually living things, busily performing all the living functions of respiration, ingestion, excretion, reproduction---and defense.”

PeopleWallFunctionPlantAppearanceDefensePerformingNaiveLiving ThingsReproductionRespirationActually Living
Book:Michael Crichton's Jurassic World
Create image

“How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?”

PeopleLittlesRealFeelingsLastsNightWalksSecretClassTeachMorningKnowingShareCarStrangeTerribleDrinkFunctionChaosManageMutualDisguiseConsentLast NightLingering
Book:White Noise: Text and Criticism
Create image

“Funny thing, your brain, how it always functions on one level or another. How, even stuck in some sort of subconcious limbo, it works your lungs, your muscle twitches, your heart, in fact, in symphony with your heart, allowing it to feel love. Pain. Jealousy. Guilt. I wonder if it’s the same for people, lost in comas. Is there really such a thing”

PeopleIfsFeelsHeartFactsPainLostLevelsBrainWonderFunctionGuiltStuckMusclesAllowingLungsSymphonyFunny ThingsComaLimboLove Pain
Book:Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy
Create image

“Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid, a motel, stands outside time. It's no coincidence that religious leaders emerge from the desert. Modern shopping malls have much the same function. A future Rimbaud, Van Gogh or Adolf Hitler will emerge from their timeless wastes.”

ReligiousCitiesLeaderMagicModernParticularWasteFunctionDesertShoppingCoincidenceTimelessExhaustedVansPyramidsMallsReligious LeadersMotels
Author:J. G. Ballard
Create image

“Interviewer: Have you ever considered writing nonfiction? Mary Doria Russell: Oh, honey, I did! Let's see...There was "A Reconsideration of the Evidence for Cannibalism at the Krapina Neandertal Site." That was a big hit. And who could ever forget "Cutmarks on the Engis II Calvarium"? Then there was "Browridge Development as a Function of Bending Stress in the Supraorbital Region." I got tons of reprint requests for that one. Trust me fiction is better.”

WritingBigsForgetFictionDevelopmentEvidenceFunctionStressRegionsHoneyNonfictionMarySiteTrust MeRequestBendingCannibalismInterviewersReconsiderationWriting Nonfiction
Author:Mary Doria Russell
Create image

“Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.”

PeopleKnowsWantNeedsGivingRealStatesFeelingsProblemDreamSpaceLove IsFantasySecurityEmotionalDrugCommitmentFunctionSolveStuckGenuineBlissInsightfulSteadyGood FeelingUnderminingReal PowerGenuine Love
Author:Bell Hooks
Create image

“I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.”

ThinkingBelieveBodyScienceLyingCertainI BelieveMemoriesTakenOne ThingShapesIllusionAll ThingsFunctionSensesLocationExtensionsBody Shapes
Author:Rene Descartes
Create image

“You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.”

IfsGamesUnderstandingFictionAcceptingFunction
Book:Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma
Create image

“Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the rest of the world, clears the decks, and lets evolution proceed to its next phase.”

ThinkingWorldHumansWellsKindSometimesEarthNextHuman BeingsAnimalEvolutionFunctionCleanDestructivePhasesPlagueDeck
Book:Michael Crichton's Jurassic World
Create image

“There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are..These occasions are rare, but they happen - despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths.”

KnowsHeartDifferentBodyHappensEarthNaturalBoysSupportForeverPathFateHugeDrinkEvidenceFunctionPoliceNotionTongueDespiteOccasionsTiesOfficialsDifferent ThingsGonzoDifferent Paths
Book:Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F
Create image

“The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.”

ThinkingMenMayReasonMoralTeachDangerousProveFunctionBrilliantCriminalsEfficiencyGiftedMenaceTrue EducationPurpose Of Education
Book:The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr
Create image

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”

ThinkingDoneSeemsJobsLeadershipBusinessResponsibilityLeaderAcceptingTeamTrustAuthorityTasksFunctionCreditTeamworkEffectivenessGreat LeaderPersonal ResponsibilityTeam BuildingInsperationalWorld LeaderBusiness LeadershipTeam WorkBeing A LeaderEffective LeadershipGreat LeadershipLeadership By Famous LeadersLeadership And ManagementGreat TeamLeadership SkillsTeam WorkingGood LeadershipBuilding A TeamLeadership By Great LeadersGreatest LeadershipInspirational Team BuildingBuilding TrustLeadership TeamworkTeam Work InspirationalGreat TeamworkTeam LeadershipTeamwork And LeadershipTeam CollaborationTeam ManagementGreat Team BuildingGreat Team WorkTeam LeaderTeams Not Working TogetherTeam BondingThere Is No I In TeamResponsibility Of Leadership
Book:Managing the Non-Profit Organization
Create image

“The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is responsible for lumbago as well as for hemorrhoidal disturbances. Elsewhere, we shall demonstrate an important connection between these disturbances and genital cancer in women, which is so common. Thus, the "deadning of the pelvis" has the same function as the deadening of the abdomen, i.e., to avoid feelings, particularly those of pleasure and anxiety.”

MenWellsImportantFeelingsPleasureCommonAnxietyConnectionsFunctionResponsibleCancerElsewhereDisturbanceAbdomen
Author:Wilhelm Reich
Create image

“How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.”

PeopleChildrenUniverseThreeCareersMinutesTasksFunctionMotherhoodPityBroadsSmallness
Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
Create image

“The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is”

WorldMayMatterShowsImaginationTakenPossibilityLogicFunctionRefuseAlternativesRationalityImpossibilityConstructiveAnalytics
Book:Our Knowledge of the External World
Create image

“Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.”

MenDreamFormSawsObjectsSeriousExpressionReturnFunctionInstrumentsArchitectureRationalBordersTowersIrrationalConvenienceUtopiaBaroqueEiffel
Book:The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies
Create image

“In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.”

PeopleIfsBelieveGodJobsAmericaI BelieveAnswersRoomsMilitaryForgivenessFunctionArmyMurderForgivingMeetingsKillingTerrorismTerroristInterviewsSeptember 11ArrangingAbet
Author:Norman Schwarzkopf
Create image