Best function & realizing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.”

Knows Real Reality Seems Past Realizing Events Identity Function Arise Dependent Remarkable Paradox Principal Future Events

Book:All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

“One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.”

Doe Art Culture Realizing Alive Art Is Ideals Function

Book:Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

Source: Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

“So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.”

Long War Might Realizing Situation Moral Failing Function Heat Substitutes Propose

Book:William James: Essays and Lectures

Source: William James: Essays and Lectures

“To desire to be an artist is to desire to be a complete man in respect to some one function, to realize yourself utterly. A man is a poor thing who is content not to be an artist.”

Men Desire Artist Realizing Poor Function

Author:Charles Horton Cooley

“American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.”

Jobs Politics Realizing Wealth Numbers Economy Labor Function Increase Rate Liberalism

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight.”

People Needs Wells Might Realizing Confidence Function Insight Encounters Liberating Being Loved Points In Life

Author:Erica Jong

“The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in striving to maintain equilibrium sufficient to at least realize survival in a way to astound the gods.”

Men Way Happens Realizing Simple Creative Limits Survival Function Strive Sufficient Engaged Equilibrium Endeavour Creative Work

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“I wasn't ever unable to function, but I did realize at some point that I had built a wall between myself and my childhood by saying, "I'm so glad that's over. Nothing can ever be as bad again," without understanding that my childhood was still very much with me.”

Stills Understanding Realizing Childhood Wall Built Function Glad

Author:Gloria Steinem

“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

“Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.”

Wells Action Realizing Vision Knowing Building Function Colleagues Know Yourself Building Trust Leadership Potential

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.”

Ideas Realizing Taste Function Intellect Active Senses Former Latter Faculty Passive

Book:The Collected works: Shorter works and fragments

Source: The Collected works: Shorter works and fragments

“Now I realize, and I acknowledge, that the right brain/left brain distinction is a tremendous oversimplification. We don't come neatly divided into right and left hemispheres, but the fact is that the two hemispheres of the brain do specialize in certain functions.”

Two Facts Certain Left Realizing Brain Function Acknowledge Distinction Divided Hemisphere Oversimplification Left Brain

Author:Darold Treffert

“You can drive.” When he raised an eyebrow, she said, "I've had enough contact with human males to realize you seem to have a congenital inability to function while a female is at the wheel, and I'd rather your full attention be on the case.”

Humans Said Enough Seems Realizing Attention Cases Car Female Function Raised Males Contact Wheels Inability Eyebrows Had Enough

Book:Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series

Source: Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series

“Everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.”

People Knows Life Seems Jobs House Realizing Awareness Function Stuck Taoism Tao Tao Of Pooh Where You Belong Wrong Job

Author:Benjamin Hoff

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