Quotes About Functioning

It goes without saying that before its culture and literature can continue to evolve, Latvia first must endure the political comedy of creating a stable, functioning and unthreatened democracy.

It's not clear whether the brain actually is designed to have nightmares or whether this is actually the process going awry.

Gdy siedzÄ™ w korku, serce bije mi z normalnÄ… szybkoÅ›ciÄ…. Nie jestem sam. UtknÄ…wszy tam, mogÄ™ uchodzi? za normalnego czÅ'owieka, który wraca do ?ony i dzieci, który ma dom. MogÄ™ udawa?, ?e moje ?ycie jest czymÅ› wiÄ™cej ni? tylko czekaniem na kolejnÄ… katastrofÄ™. Å»e wiem, jak funkcjonowa?. Tak samo, jak dzieci bawiÄ… siÄ™ w dom.

It occurred to me that I had a fine brain in beautiful working order and that I might as well use it.

But what happens if such a patient, say myself, for instance, has rarely if ever experienced a normal state of functioning? What happens if such a patient has spent much of her life in mental hospitals, both pursuing and being pursued by one's illness after another? What happens if "regular life" to such a person has always meant cutting one's arms, or gagging?

the captain depended on them for dead reckoning and changing the watches. A ship without a functioning ampolleta was effectively disabled.

the captain depended on them for dead reckoning and changing the watches. A ship without a functioning ampolleta was effectively disabled. Operating the ampolletas aboard the armada had religious

Of course, if you accept the materialist belief that memories can be created only if the brain is functioning, then that will be your conclusion. But that's exactly the point in question: whether mental functions like perception and memory can occur without the brain.

There was a cool calm solace of protection in the unreasoning rage. But his mind was functioning enough to recognize it was a false protection.

I know how my body operates differently from what it did when it was 30 and when it was 20. As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

In well-functioning markets, price equals opportunity cost. Meaning that the proper way to price out and charge us for things is to charge us what those resources could otherwise have produced. This is a lesson the Soviet Union never learned at all, and the rest is history.

The mission of the Secret Service (to keep the president of the United States safe and secure) is, by its very nature, pivotal to the proper functioning of the country, and any failure to accomplish this mission has the potential to cause an immediate international crisis.

Niemand kann immer nur funktionieren. Wenn man sich selbst nich die nötige Zeit und Fürsorge gönnt, dann rebelliert der Körper in Form von Krankheit und Erschöpfung.

This stuff only works in practice. In theory, it's a mess.

If you take your mind to a level of functioning that is beyond age, then your body will begin to be touched by the same quality.

Immobilization: A state, however mild or serious, in which you are not functioning at the level that you would like to. If feelings lead to such a state, you need to look no further for a reason to get rid of them.

It is futile to plan a city's appearance, or speculate on how to endow it with a pleasing appearance of order, without knowing what sort of innate, functioning order it has. To seek for the look of things as a primary purpose or as the main drama is apt to make nothing but trouble.

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

We learn to function successfully by experiencing success. Memories of past success act as built-in 'stored information' which gives us self-confidence for the present task.

God is the only properly functioning community in the universe

What's happening to me is I'm still happy and functioning, being able to listen to music, see good movies, read good books. What else is there that I can't, you know, I mean, I'm OK.

I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.

Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's physiological systems are functioning.