Quotes About Function

Your lungs are built to provide precisely the amount of air your body needs for all of your organs to function effectively.

But metaphors set up not only similarities but also oppositions. A cup and a shield are alike in their form (round and concave), but opposite in their function (peace vs. war), just as Ares and Dionysus are alike insofar as they are gods, but opposite with regard to the ends they pursue and to the instruments they use.

Cartea a dovedit ce poate, È™i nu vedem un alt obiect mai bun pe care l-am putea crea pentru aceeaÈ™i întrebuinÈ›are.

By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.

Hiperactividad de la función intestinal en menoscabo de la cerebral

But in biological systems there is a deep unity between structure, function, and origin. You cannot make very much progress understanding any one of these unless you are also paying close attention to the other two.

The math is unavoidable: it is an inevitable property of long-lasting exponential growth that it ends up in a singularity, a point in time when a function reaches an infinite value, making anything instantly possible.

Recruiting Is a (Guerilla) Marketing Function

Una persona, en la sociedad, desempeña una determinada función de acuerdo con su capacidad. Y el dinero es la recompensa. Ahora, piensa en una persona que tenga la facultad de enamorarse de alguien. ¿Qué habría de malo en que le pagasen si esa persona se enamorara valiéndose de las facultades que tiene?

Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did not function independently of each other, which handicapped her expressions of suspicion and disdain.

I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.

plans." To be sure, illusions have their function. Small children often need security blankets to soothe their fears. Yet for the mature adult, a high need for certainty can be a dangerous thing. It prevents us from learning to face the uncertainty pervading our lives. As hard as we try, we cannot make our lives risk-free the way we make our milk fat-free.

Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them and their owners. Whether the curves imposed are the ebullient arabesques of the tit-queen or the attenuated coils of art nouveau, they are deformations of the dynamic, individual body, and limitations of the possibilities of being female.

Por otra parte, como escribía Milton Erickson en 1930, refiriéndose a las técnicas de inducción hipnótica, «las sugestiones indirectas funcionan mejor que las directas».

I didn't hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)

It came to me that I was crying, a steady runoff, a bodily function like anything else the body does on its own, a beating heart, a breath[...]

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating.

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary & virtuous function.

Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.

I'm afraid Mr. Everhard is right, he said. LAISSEZ-FAIRE, the let-alone policy of each for himself and devil take the hindmost. As Mr. Everhard said the other night, the function you churchmen perform is to maintain the established order of society, and society is established on that foundation. But that is not the teaching of Christ! cried the Bishop. The

Apple changed the competitive landscape by shifting the raison d'être of smartphones from something that was functional to a product that was beautiful. "I learned that beauty matters.… RIM was caught incredulous that people wanted to buy this thing.