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Quotes About Function

researchers investigated the association between curry consumption level and cognitive function in elderly Asians.7 Those who ate curry "occasionally" and "often or very often" scored much better on specific tests designed to measure cognitive function than did people who "never or rarely" consumed curry.
~ David Perlmutter
DHA, is its role in regulating gene expression for the production of BDNF. Put simply, DHA helps orchestrate the production, connectivity, and viability of brain cells while at the same time enhancing function.
~ David Perlmutter
Bletchley said, sweating freshly in the heat of the bus. 'Some of the species adapt, others don't. In effect, when coal is acquired by wholly mechanical means or perhaps isn't even needed at all, people like Batty and his brothers, and Stringer, won't have a function. And when the function ceases so does the species, or those parts of it that can't recognize or create a further function.
~ David Storey
Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.
~ Scott Adams
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
My part is not a heroic one, but I shall play my part.
~ Jean Anouilh
Marriage does not serve primarily to accommodate or to mitigate social tragedy of this sort. Its principal function is to prevent or limit the occurrence of such tragedies in the first place.
~ Jean Bethke Elshtain
A response is thus a particular case of interaction between the external world and the subject, but unlike physiological interactions, which are of a material nature and involve an internal change in the bodies which are present, the responses studied by psychology are of a functional nature and are achieved at greater and greater distances in space (perception, etc.) and in time (memory, etc.) besides following more and more complex paths (reversals, detours, etc.).
~ Jean Piaget
Memoria - fie memoria individual?, fie memoria colectiv? care este cultura - are o dubl? funcÈ›ie. Una, într-adev?r, e s? conserve anumite date, cealalt? s? cufunde în uitare informaÈ›iile ce nu ne folosesc È™i care ne-ar putea înc?rca inutil minÈ›ile.
~ Jean-Claude Carrière
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.
~ Jean-Francois Lyotard
These effects result in depletion of cellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and potentially severe detrimental effects on cell function. It is important to note that the inflammatory response also causes release of vasoconstrictor substances including thromboxane and endothelins.
~ Jean-Louis Vincent
Nicardipine is metabolized by the liver, and excretion can be impaired in patients with abnormal hepatic function.
~ Jean-Louis Vincent
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.
~ Jeff Hawkins
If anyone was ever cognizant of the need and function of 'litanies', it was Kafka.
~ Elias Canetti
the Upanishads suggest that so-called chaos may have an actual divine function, even if you personally can't recognize it right now: The best we can do, then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally-no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
He realized that "failure has a function. It asks you whether you really want to go on making things.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Todos os planetas e signos estão envolvidos com o corpo humano, e se você deseja compreender o processo ou a função de algum deles, observe o que ele rege no corpo e como contribui para o todo.
~ Alice O. Howell
Reason is only one part of the souls economy and requires a balance of the other parts in order to function properly.
~ Allan David Bloom
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
~ Alvar Aalto
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~ Alvin Schwartz
Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem... some strategy in order to pave the reader's way to the impact of this or that line.
~ Joseph Brodsky
A lot of the weaknesses we have are based on a lack of lateral movement, which can set you up for injury. When you exercise in multiple planes, you see improvements in balance, mobility, and function.
~ Harley Pasternak