Quotes About Functioning

members of the Athenian assemblies were chosen by lot, a method meant to protect the system from degeneracy. Luckily, this effect has been investigated with modern political systems. In a computer simulation, Alessandro Pluchino and his colleagues showed how adding a certain number of randomly selected politicians to the process can improve the functioning of the parliamentary system.

Post-'Gangaajal,' I changed my way of functioning, choosing my roles carefully and mixing them up.

Outright collapse is not an outlandish scenario for petrostates like Ecuador or Venezuela, where the virus could overwhelm the countries' few functioning hospitals very quickly.

Regardless of your history, you are magnificent intelligent beings who have chosen this incarnation to enhance your planetary functioning and expand your spiritual awareness en masse. This is your sacred agreement and a powerful co-creation began when the Divine Forces combined with your Collective Consciousness in your planet's energetic shift. It is Man's "asking" and your Divine Creator

In the age of Big Data, the von Neumann bottleneck has philosophical implications. The more knowledge that is put into a von Neumann machine, the bigger and more crowded its memory, the further away its average data address, and the slower its functioning.

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.

The trick of functioning with grief is that of remembering and forgetting all at once. Of letting the ghost walk at your side but not block the way.

A well-functioning transmission should at some point go from the overnight right up to 40 years, and that is the ultimate objective in having monetary transmission that affects the whole gamut of borrowing tenure.

One way to express choice is through the market. Well-functioning markets provide choices and, ultimately, the ability to express one's pursuit for happiness.

I couldn't do anything without help and was unable to function in everyday life.

Creo que tenemos la peculiar idea de que nuestro gobierno es perfecto sin saber real y verdaderamente cómo funciona».72

To be true to the Bauhaus is not to follow a "style." It is to maintain impeccable standards, consider every nuance, and make successful functioning the priority.

You need community support. You're pretty defeated when you're laid low with a mental illness. It's a frightening place to be, and to get up and be able to stand and to move forward and to start functioning again, you need so much support. You need to feel you're not alone.

I know how to deal with jet lag, and I know just how much rest I need and when I need to take naps. When you walk on stage, you need your brain working at its highest and most fully-functioning, so it's not always easy, but I sort of figure it out.

We have the facade of a functioning capitalist democracy but underneath it is a species of corporate totalitarianism.

gratefulness is an attitude that underlies successful functioning over the life course.

So you're a functioning drunk. You don't have to be falling down in the street or pissing yourself or sleeping with unsuitable men or losing whole days at a time to be a drunk.

SBI securities have done such thing to its trading platform that no matter how much you try you as client can't sell your shares as all keys of its web trading have been stopped functioning as it does everyday

I knew better than to believe a family was anything like the ones you saw on TV, and my own experience was disaster oriented at almost all times, but I knew—if only from the family I'd begun to form with Sean and Maya—that there was such a thing as people functioning together. Maybe not every minute of every day, but long enough to form a decent holiday. Maybe even a decent life.

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.

There is no doubt that physical activity is the basis of efficient functioning of the human mechanism, both physical and mental.

Age had nothing to do with how well my brain worked.

For a book to function... it has to be a functioning reality. The character has to be real, and I imagine that's exactly what happens for a spy who is in deep cover.