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Quotes About Function

I might seem biased, but I use Evernote every day. It came to me through my readers, who I'd asked for software recommendations via Twitter and Facebook. For seemingly every function, the answer was 'Man, you have to use Evernote.'
~ Tim Ferriss
MPs have no real knowledge of how to function other than via gimmick and briefings.
~ Dominic Cummings
I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.
~ Herbie Hancock
The warp factor is a function that changes the overall scale for position, time, mass, and energy at each point in the fifth dimension.
~ Lisa Randall
Men have two outstanding features--their brains and their genitalia. Unfortunately, both rarely function simultaneously.
~ Lois Greiman
When I mention to my shrink that I play roles in public—acting wild-style—she smiles and I ask her what's funny. "You're a trickster, Kit," she says. "That's not a bad thing. Tricksters have a key function in life and art.
~ Unknown
Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.
~ Jim Butcher
Our physical body knows it cannot function without physical water. So, too, our spiritual life should realize that it can't function without the living water of Gods Word.
~ Jim George
Research to date has shown that, like many other stressors, grief frequently leads to changes in the endocrine, immune, autonomic nervous, and cardiovascular systems; all of these are fundamentally influenced by brain function and neurotransmitters." There
~ Joan Didion
It is not, Ianthe, a priest's function to be a bottomless well of woolly uncritical forgiveness. That would only devalue virtue.
~ Joanna Trollope
Its refugee members were hobbled by their structural function in the American Dream, which was to be so unhappy as to make other Americans grateful for their happiness.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
What often happens is that people would construct their own standards and rules about how a righteous God ought to operate, and then they would invent all sorts of complicated arguments and distinctions to explain how God has never violated their standards and rules. It is as if they are embarrassed by the God of the Bible because he is too different from how sinful man functions and because he disregards the standards imposed upon him by spiritual rebels.
~ Unknown
Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.
~ Unknown
The collective body functions in the same way as the individual body: if the system is over-anxious, it spontaneously gives rise to self-destructive patterns.
~ Virginie Despentes
Every system is perfectly designed to get the result that it does.
~ W. Edwards Deming
In activities other than purely logical thought, our minds function much faster than any computer yet devised.
~ Unknown
Besides, REAL computers have a rename system call.
~ Larry Wall
It's not being angry that's important, it's being angry about the right things. I told her, Look at it from the Darwinian perspective. 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.
~ Philip Roth
I will proceed by asking a question: Would you not say that a horse has some end? I should. And the end or use of a horse or of anything would be that which could not be accomplished, or not so well accomplished, by any other thing? I do not understand, he said. Let me explain: Can you see, except with the eye? Certainly not. Or hear, except with the ear? No. These then may be truly said to be the ends of these organs? They may.
~ Plato
pas encore quelle est cette vertu, je demande seulement s'ils s'acquittent bien de leur fonction par la vertu qui leur est propre, et mal par un vice contraire. Certainement.
~ Plato
The sphincter which serve to discharge our stomachs has dilations and contractions proper to itself, independent of our wishes or even opposed to them.
~ Plato
When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential.
~ Dean Koontz
smartphone with functions specific to this mission, and a radio-wave jammer.
~ Dean Koontz
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, The Abolition of Man
~ Dean Koontz