Quotes About Function

So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.

A function indicates a relationship in prospect, and so belongs to a family of concepts. Relationship, as in related; relationship, as in connected, corresponding to or caused by, united or bound together; relationship, as in linked or yoked, coupled or conjoined, associated or allied. Relationship, as in dependent, indeed, relationship, as in function of, at which point the moving conceptual point may be seen revolving around the perimeter of a circle.

Making music is like constructing a machine whose function is to dredge up emotions in performer and listener alike.

We live in a world where to be powerless is a risk The future is not a mystery but a function of what we do today

The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities that make it precious and by indicating the angle of visions from which its beauties are visible. But many critics do not realize their function. They aim not to appreciate, but to judge; they seek first to draw lines about literature and then bully readers into accepting these laws.

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

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, arguably the greatest discovery in biology in the twentieth century, famously said, "If you want to understand function, study structure.

It may be, for example, that one key difference between the brains of straight women and lesbians is the function of a particular protein, like a voltage-sensitive potassium channel, that influences the electrical behavior of certain neurons in a brain circuit that influences sexual and gender-typical behavior.

Of course, one of the main legitimate functions of thought has always been to help provide security, guaranteeing shelter and food for instance. However, this function went wrong when the principle source of insecurity came to be the operation of thought itself.

God designed the world in such a way that everything functions on principles. Principles are eternal laws established and inherent in creation that make creation function.

If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory.

So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.

Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?

Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'

Behind every attractive room there should be a very good reason.

I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.