Quotes About Function

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

I want this boat's primary function to be crocodile research and rescue work," Steve said. "So I'm going to name her Croc One. " "Why don't we call it For Sale instead?" I suggested. I'm not sure Steve saw the humor in that. Croc One was his baby.

Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.

There are disasters that happen - Hurricane Harvey came up, and you had people self-organizing through the community and getting in boats and driving around rescuing people coordinated ad hoc through this network. That's not a media function.

Neurons are living cells with a metabolism. And they need glucose in order to function. Glucose is the fuel of the brain, just like gasoline is the fuel of your car.

Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and they have no meaning.

True poet's depression is a rigor mortis of agony. It's a full body inability to function. You don't want to leave your room.

In other words, it is impossible: we cannot function properly, and the evening ends in confusion and awkwardness, and very early.

There is no sensible way to invoke functional notions as explanatory concepts at the synchronic or ontogenetic level.

It is, indeed, virtual dogma that the function of language is communication.

La función de los programas concurso es que nos sintamos mejor cuando pensamos en todos esos datos aleatorios e inútiles que es lo único que nos queda de la educación que hemos recibido

Organizations typically structure themselves around function or business unit or geography—but successful growth companies optimize around the job.

Olvidar es una función tan importante de la memoria como recordar.

An audience that is unwilling to suspend its own presuppositions and biases while considering an opposed (or even unopposed) viewpoint not only frustrates the function of extended argument but effectively denies its own beliefs a rational basis.

Literature is not a pattern of ideas but a pattern of images. Ideas do not matter much in comparison to a book's imagery and magic. The word, the expression, the image is the true function of literature. Not ideas.

I looked up "skin" in the encyclopedia and confirmed that, sure enough, it is the human body's largest organ, a fact that suggests our surfaces are critical to who we are, not just the gateway to physical or spiritual depths but a profoundly important web of cells that, in protecting us, gives us form and function.

There was more. Cartagena was to function as the eyes and ears of the king throughout the voyage.

Our society needs a functional mythology of the Dark. We need a spirituality that reminds us that we have to share one half of our existence with the Dark. We can do this willing or unwillingly. The paradox must be lived in our lives in order for us to be truly enlightened.

Like steps of a staircase, and notes on a piano, each part MUST be present for the whole to function properly. Just because one plane vibrates at a lower frequency than another plane, the former is not inferior to the latter. Bass tones vibrate at a lower frequency than treble tones, yet both tones are essential to the total effect of the music.

Unfortunately, the two hemispheres of our brain have become separated and no longer function as a holistic gestalt.

Gnosticism does not need the structure of a church to function. It is therefore, a threat to the existence of many denominations.

But the dead, they have ghosts. Ghosts are very useful for haunting. Never forget the dead, Tula. They have their function. They sometimes speak at the most useful or inopportune times.

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.