Quotes About Function

The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing.

The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing. Can you see the sharpest edge of that knife?

Anger is to make you effective. That's its survival function. That's why it's given to you. If it makes you ineffective, drop it like a hot potato.

Function must dictate form.

Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?

The hands are the feet of the arms.

Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.

Once a thing is nothing more than what it is, it's too useful to serve the cause of luxury.

It is a subject that is taboo unless there is some extraordinary social crisis—such as war—involving the mobilization of all the national resources of the common life to meet it. There is a conspiracy of silence about hatred, its function and its meaning.

When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi of Prajna, or liberation. Such a state is called the function of 'thoughtlessness'. But to refrain from thinking of anything, so that all thoughts are suppressed, is to be Dharma-ridden, and this is an erroneous view.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.

Virtualmente todas las organizaciones que conoces funcionan esencialmente gracias a tu codicia. Te atraen porque lo que dicen o hacen le resulta atractivo a tu codicia. Este factor está oculto debido a su mera apariencia. Si dejas de escuchar sus palabras y contemplas el efecto, pronto verás que es así.

No es Sufismo si no cumple su función para ti. Un abrigo deja de serlo si no mantiene a un hombre abrigado.

The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.

El hombre que sabe debe desempeñar una función. El que no sabe, no puede atribuirse una a sí mismo; sólo puede tratar de hacerlo.

All matter is infinitely divisible, shall we say. But for most practical purposes there is a limit to the number of divisions which you can make of a piece of chocolate if it is still to function as you expect a piece of chocolate to function.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

The little ADA had better do her job and keep him there.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical sprawl.

The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's also related to geometry and a certain understanding of the architecture in which there is a balance between expression and function.

I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper.