Quotes About Function

The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.

This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.

Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?

You see, if the function of a tool is removed, you have Art. Very witty, don't you think?

such as muscle weakness, gait instability, or sensory impairments, and to directly observe the performance of key functional tasks.

Journalism is a function, like going to the lavatory, best done at home and not talked about.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

We have to change the culture from one in which people simply do their own job in their own function to make their own numbers look good (a vertical focus) to one in which people are focused horizontally on the customer and on improving value streams that deliver value across functions.

The most fundamental principle of learning theory is that behavior is a function of its consequences. When

At issue for Peladan is the potency of the visual image: art's ability to construct images for viewing that can mobilize, concentrate and redirect instinctive responses. He brings out into the open the recognition underlying all decadent art; that is, the political function of the fascinated gaze.

A cesarean section is a wound that impedes normal digestive function, function that must resume following surgery. Breast milk is delayed. Seven layers of tissue and muscle are severed.

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

Any society, in order to survive, must mold the character of its members in such a way that they want to do what they have to do; their social function must become internalized and transformed into something they feel driven to do, rather than something they are obliged to do.

pleasure is just as often a function of our emotional associations as it is of our physical sensations — and for this reason, there can be psychology as well as physiology at play when it comes to pairing beverages with food.

You should drink at least eight glasses of water a day in order to stay regular, lose weight, and detoxify. Our bodies are mostly made of water, and yet we lose two to three quarts of it every day through perspiration and other bodily functions.

Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

Books should have a purpose. Books should be practical in some sense.

I do sometimes feel like I function within an echo chamber and I'm just kind of preaching to the choir.

Design is everything. Everything!

Well, that's what it was bloody well designed to do, wasn't it?

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

I've been accused of being a shell designer - you start with a machine and enclose it. But in many cases, the shell is essential. A locomotive without a shell would be nonfunctional.

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.