Quotes About Function

At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.

A government should not become too big to fulfill one of its most basic functions: representation.

We have to have a school board that's actually gonna be able to function and that has true parent representatives on it.

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

Deskilling devices - they make us dumber. We're immersed in a system that now requires the use of a cell phone just to get around, just to function, and so the logic of that cell phone has been imposed on us.

I'm always really impressed when a movie can function like a novel does - that's so hard to do.

Our mistake has been to categorize things as art by considering certain phases of the process of creation. But logically this can make all man-made objects art. It is more useful to categorize art by what has become its social function. It functions as property.

Si elle ne s'était pas évadée de leur monde, elle serait amorphe et fainéante comme un Doigt. Car, elle l'avait vu à la télévision, les Doigts sont toujours partisans du moindre effort. [...] Comme le dit bien un adage myrmécéen : la fonction fait l'organe, mais l'absence de fonction défait l'organe.

People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.

Professionalism is the grease that lubricates an organization's functional gears. Of course, professionalism alone is inadequate to ensure business success. It must be accompanied by the leadership's compelling vision for the business and the execution of a well thought-out strategic plan. Assuming these exist, the organization's people will make the difference in the end.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them.

The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.

To be able to function in late capitalism without being a psychological wreck, it is necessary to accept the insane as standard.

Wrestling was the first time I thought, 'My leg is the thing that functions in this way to do this move, to get from A to B.' Instead of, like, 'My body's purpose is to suck it in so the male showrunner thinks it's attractive.'

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body.

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

I don't want the baggage of knowing things when I walk on to a set. I am more comfortable being an empty slate, surrendering before a director and writer's vision. I've realised that this is the best way for me to function.

Desde los cincuenta, ya no representó ninguna edad. Y, siempre silenciosa, erguido el talle y mesurados los ademanes, parecía una mujer de madera que funcionara automáticamente.

Do you know how I picture God myself? he said. As an enormous, creative organ beyond our ken, who scatters millions of worlds into space, just as one single fish would deposit its spawn in the sea. He creates because it is His function as God to do so, but He does not know what He is doing and is stupidly prolific in His work and is ignorant of the combinations of all kinds which are produced by His scattered germs.

Acaso ha dejado de funcionar en mí una de las imperceptibles teclas del teclado cerebral?

How strange it is that a simple feeling of discomfort, of impeded or heightened circulation, perhaps the irritation of a nervous center, a slight congestion, a small disturbance in the imperfect and delicate functions of our living machinery, can turn the most light-hearted of men into a melancholy one, and make a coward of the bravest?

Dont tout «avoir» effectif doit tirer son prestige immédiat et sa fonction dernière.