“I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.” IfsPoliticalAbilityEconomyInfluenceAchieveEssentialsFunctionIndependentInstitutionsObjectivesCommitteesPolitical Influence Author:Ben Bernanke
“For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power....When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.” ChildrenEndsStatesGovernmentSpiritFoundChurchInfluenceModernCenturyTheoryOppositesFunctionClaimsRevolutionaryRemoveEducateSovereignBehalfContradictoryChurch And StateAbsolutism Author:Lord Acton
“Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to the God idea, and opposes the theistic principle as such. Gods in their individual function are not half as pernicious as the principle of theism which represents the belief in a supernatural, or even omnipotent, power to rule the earth and man upon it. It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.” MenIdeasActionEarthHumanityFightingIndividualBeliefHalfPrinciplesAtheismInfluenceEffectsConceptsAspectFunctionRefusePositive AtheismDefiniteAllegianceServitudePerniciousTheismOmnipotentThoughts And ActionsPhilosophicAbsolutism Book:Mother Earth Bulletin Source: Mother Earth Bulletin
“The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.” InfluenceConceptsPerformancesFunctionCoreMeant To BeBribe Author:Peggy Noonan
“No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality. That's one of the positive features of markets. That's why they function.” IndividualAttentionInfluenceMoralityFunctionPay AttentionFeaturesParticipants Author:George Soros
“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.” DifferentProcessGenerationsInfluenceBenefitsOrganizationFunctionIntelligentInnovationStrategyFactorsRegionsUnitsDifferent Generations Author:David Livermore
“The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.” SchoolIndividualSocialEnvironmentInfluenceFunctionVariousDiverseDispositionSocial EnvironmentCoordinating Book:Democracy And Education Source: Democracy And Education
“The similarity is that concentration of capital influences virtually everything that goes on. It influences the way the media functions, it very powerfully influences how the government works and it of course influences corporate sector elements, like say how Google or Amazon present materials that reach the public.” WayGovernmentCoursesInfluenceMediaMaterialsGoes OnElementsFunctionCorporateConcentrationGoogleVery PowerfulSimilarityAmazonGovernment Work Author:Noam Chomsky
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” GodChristianSpiritualFaithNatureChangePrayerInfluenceHuman NaturePrayingFunctionHave FaithTheologianPositive ChangeSpiritual TransformationTalking To GodI Pray To GodInspirational PrayerChange GodPowerful Prayer Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised.” ImportantUnderstandingInfluenceFunctionObviousConventionalRealisedGeneticsGenome Author:Robert Winston
“Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our thought, but our feelings and actions too, in a way which goes far beyond its official function as a biological theory.” WayFeelingsAgeActionViewsInfluenceCreationTheoryEvolutionShapesFunctionMythOfficialsOur ThoughtsCreation Myths Book:The Essential Mary Midgley Source: The Essential Mary Midgley
“[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of the function of the state. The theory that the state originates in an agreement between men was assailed by the German thinkers and the historical, organic, evolutionary idea substituted for it.” MenIdeasStatesGovernmentSchoolInfluenceTheoryFunctionRelationHistoricalObviousAgreementContractsThinker Author:Charles Edward Merriam
“The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person, is imperfect, after all. The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions, is an odd concept. In my youth I was running from my family to try to find out who I was-their influence distracted me. Now I see what a powerful hold they have, no matter what.” ThinkingTryingPersonsIdeasMatterRunningPurposeLostPowerfulInfluenceYouthConceptsMy FamilyFunctionNo Matter WhatOddImperfectDistractedDysfunction Author:Susan Minot
“Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the nature of man and animals, and their relations to external objects; whoever would establish, on the intellectual and moral functions, a solid doctrine of mental diseases, of the general and governing influence of the brain in the states of health and disease, should know, that it is indispensable, that the study of the organization of the brain should march side by side with that of its functions.” KnowsMenShouldStatesCausesSidesAnimalBrainMoralStudyInfluenceObjectsIgnoranceDiseaseIntellectualResourcesOrganizationFunctionRelationPhilosophicalDoctrineMarchIndispensableGlancesGoverningNature Of Man Author:Franz Joseph Gall