Quotes About Function

Many religious doctrines serve, among other things, a sociological function, and over the centuries the traditional understanding of hell has served one function especially well: it has enabled religious and political leaders to cultivate fear and to employ fear as a means of social control.

La medicina académica evita cuidadosamente la interpretación del síntoma, con lo que destierra tanto el síntoma como la enfermedad al ámbito de lo incongruente. Con ello, la señal pierde su auténtica función; los síntomas se convierten en señales incomprensibles.

I hope that 'House of Suns' functions as an independent novel.

Education from the lowest to the highest form must have for its object the training of the individual so that, in seeking the fullest satisfaction of his own nature, he will harmoniously perform his function as a member of a corporate society.

Controlling the design of an everyday object is very satisfying.

Our life experiences shape the way key systems in our brain organize and function. So each of us sees and understands the world in a unique way.

The human mind is happiest when it is most active in performing the functions which it was intended to perform. One of man's greatest passions is that of achievement, the passion for doing things, the ambition to accomplish. This is one of the greatest satisfactions of life, and satisfaction is the chief ingredient in happiness.

whether it is an engine or a human brain,—exercise or deteriorate is the law of life.

Whoop-de-do, said Ram. What? I'm celebrating. Was that irony or loss of mental function? asked the expendable. Was that a rhetorical questions, a bit of humor, or a sign that you are losing confidence in me? I have no confidence in you, Ram, said the expendable. Well, thanks. You're welcome.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

We spoke about furniture in theory for eight years," recalled Powell. "We spent a lot of time asking ourselves, 'What is the purpose of a sofa?'

the sequence of letters in the DNA did not reveal how it worked; what was important was

The difference between saints and the rest of us isn't that they have loving, pure beliefs and we don't; rather, they function solely from their essence

Shape clay into a vessel; it is the space within that makes it useful.

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful. —C. S. Lewis

Thus, 1 is actually a function with the two bound variables f and x. Just offhand, those two variables seem like two more variables than are needed to define a simple number.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

Nowhere else in the whole range of life on earth, is this degradation found--the female capering and prancing before the male. It is absolutely and essentially his function, not hers.

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

Not long afterwards it all broke out into the open. The spark was an entirely random and unrelated event. At a big function on the evening of 17 November 2004 attended by the 'cream of corporate captains' in Mumbai, Mukesh had introduced a talk on 'Unlocking Innovation' by the visiting chief executive of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, who had been a classmate at Stanford University's School of Business.