Best function & play Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.”

Has Beens Play Government Running Ought Function Congress Disaster Affected

Author:David Plouffe

“Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.”

Play Function Work And Play

Author:Cristina Saralegui

“There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence (now called "state security" in a throwback to both apartheid and the ANC's old Stalinist past), police and communications are all die-hard Zuma loyalists. Whatever their line functions, they will also play the role they have played so ably to date: keeping Zuma out of court - and making sure the state serves Zuma as it once did Mbeki.”

“To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we are playing with baubles, with our Legislative Councils, our Simultaneous Examinations, our ingenious schemes for separating the judicial from the executive functions, - while we, I say, are finessing about trifles, the waters of the great deep are being stirred and that surging chaos of the primitive man over which our civilised societies are superimposed on a thin crust of convention, is being strangely and ominously agitated.”

“The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in the present tense (if it is a valuable one), and its music -- its special noise -- is always contemporary. The most valuable function of the theater as an art form is to tell us who we are, and the health of the theater is determined by how much of that we want to know.”

Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

“By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.”

Thinking Play Couple Areas Function Rings Curious Playwright Brass Mischance

Author:Edward Albee

“1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are related to each other. This spacing is the simultaneously active and passive (the a of différance indicates this indecision as concerns activity and passivity, that which cannot be governed by or distributed between the terms of this opposition) production of the intervals without which the "full" terms would not signify, would not function.”

Mean Play Term Differences Activity Elements Concern Function Productions Active Related Opposition Passive Systematic Intervals Indecision Passivity Spacing

Author:Jacques Derrida

“Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here.”

World Doe Has Beens Play Fairs Function Fair Play English Words

Author:Arsene Wenger

“Our Sages refer to Prayer as "Service of the Heart". But the heart cannot work properly unless the brain functions to stimulate and control its operation. In the physiology of Prayer, too, the mind plays as vital a role as the heart.”

Mind Heart Play Prayer Brain Roles Function Operations Sage Physiology Brain Function

Author:Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

“Being a father can unreason your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. Its sad that childrens open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.”

Play Father Fun Wonder Approach Function Insight Fades Minimum Adolescence Flexible Worldview Fading Being A Father Fathering

Author:Clyde Edgerton

“Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free.”

People Play Worry Listening Function Utility Tempo Dance Music

Author:Stan Kenton

“Friends serve central functions for children that parents do not, and they play a critical role in shaping children's social skills and their sense of identity. . . . The difference between a child with close friendships and a child who wants to make friends but is unable to can be the difference between a child who is happy and a child who is distressed in one large area of life.”

Want Children Play Social Parent Differences Roles Identity Skills Areas Function Critical Close Friends Social Skills Close Friendship

Author:Zick Rubin

“A silly comedy needs a straight guy, and that guy needs to be as straight as possible. The moment you start playing straight you're not straight anymore, you're bent straight, so it really requires the usual serious, straight-forward analysis and research, looking into it and finding the dramatic function, all of what you do until you feel you've collected enough points to safely and securely play the part.”

Needs Feels Enough Play Moments Guy Comedy Serious Findings Research Function Silly Analysis Dramatic Usual Bent That Guy

Author:Christoph Waltz

“You need experience around you when you are a young player. You need to know how to run a team, to lead a team and to play as a team which means, your team has leaders but you still function as a team.”

Knows Needs Mean Stills Play Running Young Leader Know How Player Team Function

Author:Berti Vogts

“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

“The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.”

Play Happens Roles Economy Function Financial Active Financial Markets

Author:George Soros

“It's nice to play someone who functions in a very different way than I do.”

Way Different Play Nice Function Different Ways

Author:Devin Kelley

“[The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise to its conclusion, avoiding subjectivity. Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered forms would play no part in the outcome. The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloguing the results of his premise.”

“I was never very good at math and science, to be honest, so it's fun to play a character that is so scientific and mathematical, and whose brain functions at such a high pace. The biggest difference is that Maura is very linear in her thinking and very logical. I'm not quite like that. I'm much more laid back and not quite so type A. That's the big difference.”

Thinking Play Character Bigs Fun Differences Brain Honest Type Function Very Good Math Mathematical Being Honest Logical Pace Linear Math And Science Laid Back Brain Function

Author:Sasha Alexander

“My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I used to buzz it. And my mother played piano and sang in the church choir for different functions. So there was always music in the house, jazz, gospel, or whatever. Especially jazz records.”

Different Play Kids Used Mother Found Father House Church Records Saws Function Jazz Piano Choir Buzz Mouthpiece Church Choir Jazz Records

Author:Johnny Griffin

“I can't marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics. I believe that we have to play the game of strategy, and understand how to move the pieces because this is how the political spectrum functions.”

Believe I Can Ideas Play Moving Form Political Games I Believe Understanding Pieces Function Strategy Spectrum Political Spectrum

Author:Bocafloja

“Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening. Almost the way puns function.”

Way Enough Play Happenings Function Narrative Pun

Author:Garry Winogrand

“It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.”

Writing Play Numbers Function Playwright Large Numbers Small Numbers

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“It's important to recognize the vital role that the financial markets play in our economy and that so many of you are contributing to. To function effectively those markets and the men and women who shape them have to command trust and confidence, because we all rely on the market's transparency and integrity. So even if it may not be 100 percent true, if the perception is that somehow the game is rigged, that should be a problem for all of us, and we have to be willing to make that absolutely clear.”

“Like someone once said, "If you're going to play the part, you better wear the eye patch." You need to perform the function, you know.”

Ifs Knows Needs Said Play Eye Function Patches

Author:Rufus Sewell

“I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.”

Important Play Helping Community Roles Support Groups Function Locals Corporations Fund Suspects Discharge

Author:David Rockefeller

“To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.”

People World Giving Trying Mean Reason Play Stories Happens Reading Games Fiction Happened Anxiety Happenings Function Narrative Immensity Consoling

Author:Umberto Eco

“You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.”

Play Government Care Fall Nations Roles Majors Function Fundamentals Take Care Agency Etc Reserves Banking Private Sector Treasury Fall Back Federal Reserve Banking System

Author:Dick Cheney

“Living as if the world out there were somehow separate from us opens the door to the belief system of judgement and the chemical expressions of that judgment in our bodies. Thus we tend to see our world in terms of good germs and bad germs, and use words such as toxins and waste to describe the by-products of the very functions that give us life. It is in such a world that our bodies may become a combat zone for forces at odds with one another, creating the biological battlegrounds that play out”

“I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Way Has Beens Play Able Wanted Function Mainstream Fringe

Author:Pat Metheny

“While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.”

Persons Play Moments Roles Subjects Function Photographer Photograph Metaphor Appearance Symbols That Moment

Author:Minor White

“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

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