Quotes About Functioning

We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.

For me, arguably, the European Parliament is the best-functioning European institution. They are extremely good at law-making; they're extremely good at finding compromise under pressure.

The financial sector is vital to the economy. A well-functioning financial sector promotes job creation, innovation, and inclusive economic growth.

Self-preservation was a basic directive, but there wasn't a robot functioning that prioritized it at the top of the list. Like biologicals all robots were seeking a purpose. Autos and drones were lucky enough to have that built into them. A bot had to find his own way and I'd figured out that functioning for function's sake was pointless. The real question was finding a directive worth getting scrapped for.

It is surprising how much disruption the structure of normal life can absorb and still keep functioning. But then again, considered mathematically, society has never been an assemblage of things so much as an assemblage of variables.

It is important to note that most of the patients in Ohio's mental health facilities have never committed crimes. They are institutionalised because they have lost touch with reality and are having problems functioning unaided in the community.

The modern brain is clogged with information, a huge percentage of which is non-essential to effective daily functioning.

I am a functioning human being. Mostly. Just so you don't make too much fun of me, the mostly above refers to functioning, not to human being.

The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.

I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, 'cause you know you go to work again.

I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.

Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the government and the Opposition.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

I was also surprised by the alacrity and dedication we devote to the damaging exercise of remembering, which after all brings nothing good and serves only to hinder our normal functioning, like those bags of sand athletes tie around their calves for training.

The crowd always has a stake in pretending that the "abnormal" (in this case, being blind and begging) is "normal," for such a recharacterization of the abnormal as normal precludes some from full socioeconomic, political functioning.

It is very likely that intrinsic variability in the functioning of the brain also affects the quality of our judgments in ways that we cannot possibly hope to control.

What would be the worth of a body whose marvelous functionings were not operating? How would consciousness spherically unfold itself within a frozen form not tending toward natural fluidity?

That's not how it works around here, and our whole existence depends on things working.

Do people still function—live their lives, go to work, whatever—when they're drugged out?" "They do what they need to do, but they're much more … relaxed about it. You could be a fireman rescuing thirty children from an inferno, but you won't stress if you happen to drop a few of them into the flames along the way.

As the child gets older, the discrepancy between his chronological age and the level of his psychological functioning widens. He develops a "borderline personality disorder" which becomes progressively more entrenched over time as the individual encounters and struggles with the challenges of each life phase.

In our research, we tried to provide an environment that would maximize those characteristics that tend to improve functioning, while minimizing those that might hinder any improvement.

When it is most effective, machinery will have no effect at all.

This was a public telephone so it was clearly an oversight that it was working at all.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.