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“If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.”

Ifs Should Reason Use Quality Function Photographer Contrary Mediums Reason Why No Reason Realistic Lenses

Book:Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays

Source: Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays

“Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. You were unable to function, but were actively despising yourself for it.”

Ifs Mind States Depression Function Active Observers Frenzy Paralysis

Book:Kinflicks

Source: Kinflicks

“sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Activity Function Cease Sooner Or Later

Book:The Greek Way

Source: The Greek Way

“In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the baby's crib. In hospitals we do not take the food trolleys right through the operating chamber, and we rarely have the recreation room next to the convalescent room. We sort out the functions. We have to sort out the functions of the city and the streams of traffic and re-create arterial systems that allow us to breathe ... the shape, pattern and sense of community which you expect if it were a home.”

“if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability in the context of a work organization would tend to promote the image of women contained in the temperamental model - that companies must compensate for women's deficiencies and bring them together for support because they could not make it on their own. But job-related task forces serve the social-psychological functions while reinforcing a more positive image of women.”

Ifs Should Together Jobs Force Social Company Support Models Concern Female Tasks Organization Function Psychological Related Deficiency Sociability Task Forces Positive Image

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“If anybody wants to engage in any kind of sexual activity with any consenting partner, that is their business. Anybody can do anything they damn well please, as long as the relationship isn't exploitive. And I don't feel that legality should have anything to do with it. There are certain bodily functions of mine which I will not allow to be supervised.”

Ifs Want Feels Should Wells Kind Long Certain Can Do Mines Please Activity Should Have Function Sexuality Partners Damn Legality Bodily Functions

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?”

Ifs Mind Children Poetry Function Petty Cautious

Book:The Middleman and Other Stories

Source: The Middleman and Other Stories

“We all create expectations of what we would like to happen after a decision is made. The picture in our mind's eye might have served a valuable function in helping to make a decision. But once the decision is made, let the picture go. Since you can't control the future, the picture can create unhappiness if it's not fulfilled. Disappointment may make you miss the good that can come out of every situation in which you find yourself.”

Ifs Mind May Made Helping Might Happens Eye Decision Situation Missing Expectations Function Disappointment Valuable Finding Yourself Unhappiness Fulfilled

Book:Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway

Source: Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway

“I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has not experimented with all styles of painting and has not comprehended their potentialities one's work is not complete. Even an abstract painter must know how to draw as well as a figurative artist. As for me, drawing has never created any problem, since I know how to draw anatomy correctly if I had to, I understand the function of muscle groups and sculpture.”

Ifs Knows Wells Problem Artist Belief Strong Know How Groups Style Painting Skills Draws Function Drawing Painter Abstract Muscles Grounded Sculpture Anatomy Biased

Author:Guity Novin

“But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.”

Ifs Men Soul Activity Function Virtuous What Is Happiness

Author:Aristotle

“Wear whatever makes you less sad and feels right when it's on. Don't wear too many things that serve no function. Wear what you can wear on a bicycle. Wear what you can run in or survive in if necessary. If something feels right, wear it all the time. Don't look too cool. Keep some things in!”

Ifs Feels Looks Running Function Bicycle Feels Right Too Cool

Author:Margaux Williamson

“I have an argument that to master any field, it's simple: it's a function of time. How much you devote yourself to the process, how much experience you get, how much you're willing to expand your limits, how willing you are to develop your own style. If you're willing to put 10,000 hours, something amazing is going to happen.”

Ifs Happens Process Hours Simple Style Fields Willing Masters Limits Argument Function

Author:Robert Greene

“The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people's cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home, you feel impacted by not having it. It's an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.”

Ifs Feels Important Ideas Home Can Do Tools Function Phones Cells Cell Phone Prosthetics

Author:Aimee Mullins

“There's design and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!”

Ifs Looks Art Different Suffering Perfect Emotion Design Art Is Function Harmony Designer Branches Leafs Good Design

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.”

Ifs Our Lives Function Idols

Book:Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

Source: Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

“We have both a weak self and a strong self; the two are completely different. If we allow our weak side to dominate, we will be defeated. The thought ,"I am still young and have a lot of time, so I can relax and take life easy" is a function of our own weakness.”

Ifs Stills I Can Two Different Self Young Strong Easy Sides Weakness Weak Function Relax Defeated Strong Self

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.”

Source: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male

“If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.”

Ifs War Names Social Class Drug Racism Function War On Drugs Social Control

Author:David Simon

“The basic function of a comic is stand-up because it's so straightforward and simple. If the audience don't laugh, you didn't do your job. I've had some audiences where I didn't care if they laughed or not because they were either too drunk or stupid.”

Ifs Care Jobs Simple Audience Laughing Stupid Function Drunk Comic Laughed Straightforward

Author:Marcus Brigstocke

“If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.”

Ifs Made Funny Death Social Party Dying Function Favors Grants Disturbing Pumpkin Tiptoes Sneaking Up Sneaking Around Sneaking Out

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Humans Art Poetry Certain Difficult Moral Awareness Art Is Function Primaries Efficient Deceiving

Author:W. H. Auden

“Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime--and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis.”

“If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.”

Ifs Self Leadership Discipline Function Independent Managers

Book:Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

“Our father has an even more important function than modeling manhood for us. He is also the authority to let us relax the requirements of the masculine model: if our father accepts us, then that declares us masculine enough to join the company of men. We, in effect, have our diploma in masculinity and can go on to develop other skills.”

Ifs Men Important Enough Father Company Accepting Effects Goes On Skills Authority Models Function Relax Requirements Manhood Masculinity Masculine Modeling Our Father Diploma

Author:Frank Pittman

“If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the knowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast, a society which neglects its children, however well it may function in other respects, risks eventual disorganization and demise.”

Ifs World Wells May Children Opportunity Given Nations Education Risk Youth Capacity Function Neglect Contrast Prospects Demise Disorganization

Book:2 Wrlds Childhood

Source: 2 Wrlds Childhood

“Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.”

“If it is an element of liberation for Latin America, I believe that it should have demonstrated that. Until now, I have not been aware of any such demonstration. The IMF performs an entirely different function: precisely that of ensuring that capital based outside of Latin America controls all of Latin America.”

Ifs Should Believe Different America I Believe Elements Should Have Function Liberation Latin Demonstration Latin America Imf

Author:Che Guevara

“Everyone loves a hero. What we differ on is the question of who the heroes are, because we differ over what matters. And who matters is a function of what matters. [If] what matters is intelligence, the people who matter are the intelligent, and the people who matter the most, the heroes, are the geniuses.”

People Ifs Matter Genius Hero Function Intelligent What Matters One Love

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant!”

Ifs Way Giving Feels Trying Done Film Watches Special Ego Function Very Good Scripts Chairs Irrelevant Rehearsal Tourists Visiting Film Set

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Working as a lawyer, you have a lot of pressure. But if you go crazy, you are not going to get anything done! When I am under pressure, I am the most determined person in the world. I function very well.”

Ifs World Wells Persons Done Crazy Function Pressure Determined Lawyer Under Pressure

Author:Julie King

“My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some big incident, that we are losing our ability to function without it.”

Ifs Reason Bigs Ability Technology Taken Becoming Losing Function Dependent Incidents

Author:Bruce Boxleitner

“The brain is a dynamic system that constantly processes and creates your reality. It works best if you balance all the things that the brain is good at. The brain is good at being adaptable, flexible, creative, and intelligent. But it's also good at playing and just being. A balanced life provides time - every day if possible - so that every function of the brain is allowed to come alive and flourish.”

Ifs Reality Process Brain Creative Alive Balance Function Intelligent Balanced Just Being Flexible Balanced Life Adaptable

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function. I'm a spiritual teacher when somebody comes to me and some teaching happens, but the moment they leave I'm no longer a spiritual teacher. If I carry the identity of spiritual teacher, it will cause suffering.”

Ifs Moments Happens Spiritual Suffering Causes Practice Teacher Teaching Identity Function Temporary Hindrance Spiritual Teachers

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.”

“Principles are laws that are established by the creator or the manufacturer by which a product functions. If you violate those laws, then you produce malfunction, which is what we call failure. If you obey those laws and align yourself with those laws, then you are guaranteed success.”

Ifs Law Principles Produce Products Function Creator Malfunction

Author:Myles Munroe

“Failure of success is not race-related; it's not socioeconomics-related; it is really predictable, based on principles that are laid down by God the Creator by which we are supposed to function. If we find them and obey them, success becomes inevitable. That's why I was able to move from rats to 40,000 feet in the air in my own aircraft.”

Ifs Able Moving My Own Race Principles Air Feet Function Creator Inevitable Related Rats Predictable Aircraft

Author:Myles Munroe

“Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can't trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is honest but they can't perform, you're not going to trust them either. You won't trust them to get the job done.”

Ifs Done Character Jobs Courses Honest Integrity Function Competence Get The Job Done

Author:Stephen Covey

“If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.”

Ifs God Function Titles Exclusive Deities

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine, feminine, and neuter. So if you have a genitive present, there's room for everybody to fit in. I just did a project in Vienna about rock, paper, scissor; you change the gender and it simply changes the whole thing. Rock is no longer a male. It doesn't function the same way.”

Ifs Way Mean Whole Language Rooms Rocks Objects Fit Paper Projects Function Males Gender Feminine Masculine Vienna

Author:Lawrence Weiner

“I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I'm a better husband, I'm a better father, if my body is physically functioning at the highest possible levels.”

Ifs Wells Looks Body Spiritual Father Levels Emotional Husband Highest Intellectual Function

Author:Willi Smith

“If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.”

Ifs World Would Be Spiritual Teacher Identity This World Function Delusion Spiritual Teachers

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“My stories usually begin with the characters and some elements of how power (personal, political, magical) functions in the world. The rest develops as I write, and research helps a great deal with that. If you're going to write about an agrarian economy, research agrarian economies. If your main character is starving, then you should know what it means for a malnourished body to break down.”

Ifs Knows World Should Writing Mean Character Helping Stories Body Political Deals Break Economy Elements Research Function Breaking Down Starving Main Characters

Author:Leigh Bardugo

“We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at all - of any species. What we want and need is the enlightened and active interest of all men of intelligence and goodwill in their government, and their participation in its functions.”

Ifs Men Want Needs Government Interest Realizing Democracy Promise Function Species Intelligence Active Enlightened Dictatorship Participation Physicist Goodwill Wants And Needs

Author:Jerome Frank

“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.”

“There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were also his purpose. It is the function of the supreme ordeals of life to develop in men this power, to give to their life this distinction, this height of dignity, these vast horizons.”

Ifs Men Giving Purpose Universe Acting Elements Dignity Universal Function Supreme Height Distinction Horizon Ordeals Acting As If

Book:Life and destiny

Source: Life and destiny

“I don't think you could function on set if you think like that. I think once you start to think of the impact, then you're not really coming from a truthful place. I think the best thing to do for me is what's worked in the past.”

Ifs Thinking Past Function Impact Best Things Things To Do Truthful

Author:David Duchovny

“I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the villain, I concentrate on what their perspective of the events is. Not even to justify them.”

Ifs Play Events Judging Perspective Function Scripts Justify Villain

Author:Peter Sarsgaard

“I think with being blind the one thing you would have going is that you could still feel things, see your way around so to speak. And if you had had the experience of seeing at one time in your life, then you would know what it was like and be able to function. I've said this before, I think I could really photograph blind if I had to.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Feels Said Stills Able Speak Seeing One Thing Function Blind Photograph One Time

Author:William Eggleston

“I think there are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. We romanticize everything about people in movies. One of the things I don't like in movies is that people feel alone with their bodily functions in the real world, as if people in the movies don't do these things.”

People Ifs Thinking World Feels Real Bigs Function Real World Bodily Functions

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“It has a lot to do with just sort of trust in the relationship that builds between the filmmaker and the subject. There are some people who will never be relaxed in front of a camera, and in some ways that's my failing as a filmmaker to not put them at ease. It's also a function of time, and if you have that type of time.”

People Ifs Way Failing Subjects Fronts Type Function Cameras Ease Filmmaker Relaxed

Author:Liz Garbus

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