Quotes About Function

The human brain works in, so far, mysterious and wondrous ways that are completely different than the ways that computers calculate. Things like appetite or emotion, how do those function in the brain?

I've got a beautiful kitchen, which looks like a '60s version of space, with silver chrome, orange glass work surfaces, and brown leather, and it's entirely visual and has little function. I've hardly got any knives, and there's only one wooden spoon and one saucepan. But I think I've got a cheese grater, so that's good.

I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally, I don't believe in the creative function of the artist. He's a man like any other.

In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.

If you look at Mormonism, it's a very appealing community. It takes care of itself; there are active charities. It's got a successful work ethic. Whatever you might think about the authenticity of their theology or their history, it's immaterial in terms of how the religion itself actually functions.

The politicization of the presidency would pose a real threat to the institution and its function.

Climate change is a threat to the conditions in which our economy can function at all.

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.

With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.

I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function.

No matter how your breading or batter is constructed, it serves the same function: Adding a layer of 'stuff' around the item being fried means the oil has a tough time coming in direct contact with it, and thus has a hard time transferring energy to it.

I could barely function as an adult; I slept through alarm clocks and lost train tickets mid-journey.

The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the mind's strength, and awareness is its flexibility. Without these abilities, we cannot function. When we drink a glass of water, drive a car, or have a conversation, we are using mindfulness and awareness.

everybody was afraid and that the trick was to learn to function with fear.

The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

mates with the river imagined as a wild cow. Then, to make sure that the Tigris and Euphrates function properly, he appoints the god Enbilulu, the "canal inspector," to take charge of them.

Any factor—from smoking to high cholesterol levels—that affects the blood flow system in the brain has a significant impact on its function and risk for decline.

Physical exertion, in fact, has thus far been the only thing we've scientifically documented to improve brain health and function.

Many people can talk for a long period of time. But controlling, you know, your urinary tract is maybe the more difficult issue.

Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it's a waste of time.

Priority is a function of context.

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.