“The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.” ArtPoetryFocusObjectsMessagesFunctionFundamentalsSakePoeticPromotingDichotomy Author:Roman Jakobson
“When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brainthat is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious--to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.” PeopleMindPurposeLeftNumbersFocusExerciseConcernedFunctionTrainWesternEastBoundariesUnconsciousTunesLogicalPortionsLinearHemisphere Author:Edward T. Hall
“Scoring is a function of great execution, and winning is the result, but thinking about winning can pull your focus off of proper execution in a competition. Thinking about process is the answer.” ThinkingWinningProcessAnswersResultsFocusFunctionCompetitionExecution Author:Lanny Bassham
“Women need to be in key operational roles where they run businesses in the organization. Sometimes when organizations focus on leadership diversity, they're mostly in areas like HR or non-operating line functions.” NeedsSometimesRunningLinesRolesFocusKeysDiversityAreasOrganizationFunction Author:Gracia Martore
“Even though a definite article is supposed to bring something into focus, Donald Trump uses it in a very general way. It's seen by many observers as a kind of racial distancing. Often using that article seems unnecessary. [But] it is serving some function, which is to represent a group collectively rather than as individuals.” WayKindUseSeemsIndividualFocusGroupsTrumpFunctionServingArticlesUnnecessaryDefiniteObservers Author:Ben Zimmer
“That is one of the reasons why we have raised this matter about the need to focus quite sharply on the function of local government, but also on the resourcing of local government. Because it may very well be that we say to local government, you have got to run an indigent policy.” NeedsWellsMayMatterReasonGovernmentRunningFocusPolicyFunctionRaisedLocalsReason WhyLocal Government Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I attend many functions, go to different areas, you wouldn't have heard any political comment from me. If I go to a government function, I talk about government related topics. If I attend a Railway's function I talk about railways, if water then water, if water bodies, then water bodies. My focus is on governance.” IfsDifferentBodyGovernmentPoliticalWaterFocusHeardAreasFunctionRelatedCommentTopicsGovernanceRailway Author:Narendra Modi
“The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of the universe, any kind of creature imaginable. That's too big. It provides no focus for the artist. An artist needs, in order to function, some narrowing of focus. Usually, in the history of art, the narrower the focus in which the artist is forced to work, the greater the art.” NeedsWritingKindArtBigsPastArtistOrderUniverseSpaceFictionGreaterFocusTroubleCreaturesFunctionScience Fiction Author:Philip J. Klass
“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.” NeedsKindFightingGrowthInterestFocusBalanceProtectCapitalismFunctionFinancialStuckEmploymentPrimariesReasonableCanadaAssetsDelicateCompetingFavourInflationMandatesCreditorsDebtors Author:Linda McQuaig