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“Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.”

Individual Talent Advantage Function Historical Environmental Bounds Factors Steady Accumulation Individual Talent

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“The food you eat is among the most significant factors affecting your genes and pushing them toward cancer by causing mutation or disruption in their function. That is, what you eat can either prevent cancer and other chronic illnesses or help cause them.”

Helping Causes Function Cancer Illness Significant Factors Pushing Genes Disruption Chronic Illness Mutation

Book:Food As Medicine: How to Use Diet, Vitamins, Juices, and Herbs for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life

Source: Food As Medicine: How to Use Diet, Vitamins, Juices, and Herbs for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life

“Even an organization that doesn't do much work internationally will benefit from a culturally intelligent strategy to innovation. Working across different generations, business units, regions, and functions are all factors that can also influence the innovation process.”

Different Process Generations Influence Benefits Organization Function Intelligent Innovation Strategy Factors Regions Units Different Generations

Author:David Livermore

“All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.”

Political Emotion Machines Organization Function Factors Unpredictable

Author:William S. Burroughs

“It is true that it feels very differently to enjoy a good meal, taking part in an interesting conversation, or to think of how successful your children are. Suppose we do all these things at a particular time. How happy are we at the time? We do not need to calculate the value of each such feelings on any singular scale to answer this question. We need not see our happiness at the time as a mathematical function of these items. It is rather that all these experiences, together with many other factors, causally puts us at the time at a certain level of happiness, i.e. in a certain mood.”

“I had a lot of fantasies about being an architect when I was young, and I think I still do. On a visceral level, I'm very intellectually and emotionally attracted to acknowledging how space functions in our lives, both in terms of pleasure and in terms of control, and in terms of all those factors that form a life. I'm also very anxious and maybe repulsed by how superficial that whole dialogue can become.”

Thinking Stills Whole Form Young Term Space Pleasure Levels Fantasy Our Lives Function Dialogue Factors Anxious Architect Superficial Visceral

Author:Tom Burr

“It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.”

Seems Might Science Process Function Simplicity Invention Factors Aesthetic Equations Simplification

Author:Raymond Loewy

“Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another, intertwining of external and internal factors, and adaptive processes which overcome impediments that the child encounters.”

“The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.”

Mind Science Attention Progress Function Factors Inattention

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.”

Spiritual Spirit Materials Activity Function Familiar Psychological Factors Our Time Dependent

Author:Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“One reason milk consumption may lead to cancer risk is insulin-like growth factor, IGF-1 (not to be confused with bovine growth hormone, rBGH). Milk contains IGF-1 for good reason: milk is designed for babies, and IGF-1 helps us grow. IGF-1 affects growth, as well as other functions, and is normally found in our blood. Higher levels of IGF-1, however, appear to stimulate cancer cells.”

Wells May Reason Helping Found Grows Growth Levels Risk Blood Baby Higher Function Cancer Factors Cells Confused Milk Consumption Hormones Higher Level Insulin Bovine Growth Hormones

Author:Alison Stewart

“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.”