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“Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital.”

People Two Character Records Integrity Skills Function Track Motive Two Things Capability Competence Track Record

Author:Stephen Covey

“Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.”

Should Wisdom Conscience Function

Book:Conversations with Ernest Hemingway

Source: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway

“The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts”

Has Beens Art Function Museums Pedestal Patron Clique Socialites

Author:Albert C. Barnes

“Being healthy is a complete lifestyle for me. It allows my brain to function at a very high degree so I can comprehend all the new things that are thrown at me. It also allows me to sleep well so that I am rested when I need to perform. Finally, being healthy will hopefully allow me to live a long and fun-filled life.”

Needs Wells Long I Can Fun Sleep Brain Healthy Degrees Function Filled Lifestyle Hopefully Thrown New Things Sleep Well

Author:Derrick Rose

“The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.”

Persons Art Ideas Soul Example Capable Art Is Function Aim Rendering

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“More than a career, I feel that I've got a function. I see things in a much more holistic way. Some people bake the bread, and some people write the songs.”

People Way Feels Writing Song Careers Function Bread Holistic

Author:Jackson Browne

“The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people.”

People Should Government Support Taught Ought Lessons Function Paternalism

Author:Grover Cleveland

“One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.”

Way Looks Use Learning Stupid Function Difficulty Prejudice Stupidity Remove Literacy

Book:Philosophical Investigations

Source: Philosophical Investigations

“Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.”

Death Dies Loses All Things Seasons Function Destroying Effectiveness

Book:Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)

“The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.”

Way Trying Dream Materials Balance Function Psychological Subtle Psychics Equilibrium

Author:Carl Jung

“I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.”

Work Function Chaos Noise Recreation

Author:Vangelis

“It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success is a ruthless competitor for it flatters and nourishes our weaknesses and lulls us into complacency. We bask in the sunshine of accomplishment and lose the spirit of humility which helps us visualize all the factors which have contributed to our success. We are apt to forget that we are only one of a team, that in unity there is strength and that we are strong only as long as each unit in our organization functions with precision.”

“Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidneys is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.”

Said Philosophy Might Science Stuff Views Function Kidneys

Author:Homer Smith

“Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.”

Wells Doe Government Function Private Sector Public Servants

Author:Ronald Reagan

“According to physiological law, all natural, normal functions of the body are achieved without peril or pain. Birth is a natural, normal physiological function for normal, healthy women and their healthy babies. It can, therefore, be inferred that healthy women, carrying healthy babies, can safely birth without peril or pain.”

Body Pain Law Natural Baby Birth Healthy Normal Function Pregnancy Peril Childbirth Physiological

Author:John Dye

“No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception”

Should Natural Birth Function Painful Exception Pregnancy Childbirth Midwife Birthing Bodily Functions Birth Of A Child Natural Childbirth

Author:Grantly Dick-Read

“The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are ever likely to make use of that particular possibility. To grant no more freedom than all can exercise would be to misconceive its function completely. The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.”

Men May Important Use Would Be Used Freedom Millions Possibility Particular Exercise Function Importance Majority Grants One Man Beneficial Being Free

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.”

Thinking Should Body Causes Sleep Brain Duty Habit Evidence Function Radio Wide Awake Phenomenon Time Of Day Wide Awake

Author:Evan Davis

“As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function.”

People Able Responsibility Clear Sea Function Cancer Officials Visible Public Officials

Author:Lindy Boggs

“If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.”

Ifs Support Type Members Losing Research Function Cancer Our Society Agony Organisms Grandchildren Family Members Living Organisms Great Grandchildren Basic Research

Author:Paul D. Boyer

“Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.”

Government Function Smallest Participation

Book:Considerations on Representative Government

Source: Considerations on Representative Government

“I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.”

Knows Doe Art I Can Past Artist Judging Honor Function Meetings Endure Forgotten Revenge Invisible Innocent Guts Judged

Book:Keeping a Rendezvous

Source: Keeping a Rendezvous

“If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what then? The answer, of course, was very simple. He had a whole board of circuits for dealing with exactly this problem, in fact this was the very heart of his function. He would continue to believe in it whatever the facts turned out to be, what else was the meaning of Belief? The Door would still be there, even if the Door was not.”

Ifs Believe Heart Stills Whole Facts Problem Hands Courses Belief Simple Answers Pay Doors Function Positive Atheism Boards Circuits

Book:Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together.”

Ifs Love Long Together Social Sex Term Function Species Long Term Rely Ritual Seconds Mates Sole Ceremony Courtship Mammals

Author:E. O. Wilson

“An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.”

“Practicing yoga is like tuning up your car: it allows the bode to function in accordance with what it was designed to do.”

Car Yoga Function Tuning

Author:Alan Finger

“Web services fits into the original vision of the ASP model in that there are these functions out on the Internet and you can just go out there and rent them.”

Vision Internet Fit Models Function Originals

Author:Eric A. Meyer

“The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.”

Angel Function Raises Wings Heavy Regions

Author:Plato

“Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite complex ways. But realism, being a view about the status of such normative theories, insists that the truth of any firstorder normative standard is not a function of what anyone happens to think of it.”

Thinking Way Firsts States Happens Action Order Views Attention Moral Psychology Theory Standards Ethics Function Complexes Agents Variety Salt Realism Worth It

Book:Moral Realism: A Defence

Source: Moral Realism: A Defence

“A restaurant wine list is praised and given awards for reasons that have little to do with its real purpose, as if it existed only to be admired passively, like a stamp collection. A wine list is good only when it functions well in tandem with a menu.”

Ifs Wells Littles Real Reason Purpose Given Function Wine Lists Restaurants Collections Awards Stamps Menus Tandem

Author:Gerald Asher

“For society to function some kind of reasonable balance has to be stuck between the competing interests of creditors and debtors. Although the mandate of the Bank of Canada was to maintain a delicate balance between encouraging growth and fighting inflation, the Bank opted to focus exclusively on fighting inflation. In doing so it came down heavily in favour of those with financial assets to protect, and against those whose primary need was employment.”

“All appeals to Scripture are appeals to interpretations of Scripture. The only real question is: whose interpretation? People with differing interpretations of Scripture cannot set a Bible on a table and ask it to resolve their differences. In order for the Scripture to function as an authority, it must be read and interpreted by someone. According to "solo" Scriptura, that someone is each individual, so ultimately, there are as many final authorities as there are human interpreters.”

People Humans Real Order Asks Individual Differences Authority Function Tables Finals Scripture Appeals Resolve Interpretation Catholicism Solo Interpreter Real Questions

Author:Keith Mathison

“If you can capture a womans imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.”

Ifs Love Needs Romance Imagination Strange Creatures Function Distance Capture Time Of Need Time And Distance

Author:Kathleen Tessaro

“The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.”

Body Natural Race Divine Function Wings Heavy Flying Flight Aviation Soar Great Aviation

Book:Plato: With an English Translation

Source: Plato: With an English Translation

“Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose the latter?”

Fun Enjoy Function Live Life Latter Just Live Just Living Life

Author:Arthur Nersesian

“Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now and then you catch a glimpse of the photographer's reflection. The mirror is just another function of the window.”

White Pure Photography Reflection Window Function Mirrors Photographer Photograph Description Frank Now And Then Minors Glimpse

Author:Alec Soth

“Natural childbirth allows the hormones that have been working for women for thousands of years to fulfill their functions. This is more important than just helping a woman through labor and delivery. Birth-related hormones also affect well-being much later in life.”

Years Wells Has Beens Important Helping Natural Birth Labor Function Well Being Related Pregnancy Delivery Childbirth Hormones Later In Life Natural Childbirth

Author:Janet Schwegel

“The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.”

People Way Wells Kind Art Different Culture Creativity Serious Function Ambassadors Different Cultures

Author:Herbie Hancock

“In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen, to prohibit within its jurisdiction all criminal practices ... Nor can any ecclesiastical organization be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the National Government.”

States Government Church Religious Atheism Duty Citizens Degrees Judgment Organization Function Congress Conviction Presidential Smallest Scruples

Author:James A. Garfield

“Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.”

Humans Play Special Function Human Experience Subordinates Playing Games Adaptive

Author:Johan Huizinga

“In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to render them by different modes of election, and different principles of action, as little connected with each other as the nature of their common functions, and their common dependence on the society, will admit.”

Littles Different Government Action Political Common Principles Republican Authority Function Election Connected Branches Divides Remedy Dependence Legislature Republican Government

Book:The Federalist

Source: The Federalist

“For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy reads: 'Though goodness without knowledge . . . is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous. . . . Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind.'”

Heart Character Together Form United Mankind Dangerous Goodness Weak Function Constitution Foundation Lays Humanist Academy Usefulness Head And Heart Exeter

Author:Corliss Lamont

“I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals. . . .”

Ifs Thinking May Art Stills Ideas Philosophy Form Religious Moral Greater Duty Function Ancient Humanist Pointing Guise Falsity

Author:Corliss Lamont

“Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression.”

Source: Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

“The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.”

“Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular.”

Firsts Persons Self Function Contemplation Opposition Superficial First Person Transcendent

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.”

Ifs Men Real Philosophy Use Differences Principles Tree Conditions He Man Function Philosophical This Life Grass Adapted Basic Principles Tree Of Life Old Trees

Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things makes our lives worthwhile. My teacher, and one of the founders of the Pratt industrial design program, Rowena Reed Kostellow, said, "Pure, unadulterated beauty should be the goal of civilization." From a pragmatic point of view, for something to be beautiful, it has to work. In order to make this idea clearer I have combined the ideas of beauty and function into one word: Beautility.”

“Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs it, which materials best suit its functions and so on.”

Needs Trying Reality Asks Effort Design Materials Function Suits Consideration

Author:Gianfranco Frattini

“With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.”

Form Process Design Flow Function Bases Entity Comprehension

Book:Visual Design in Action: Principles, Purposes

Source: Visual Design in Action: Principles, Purposes

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