Quotes About Functioning

To get our economy back on track and keep it functioning properly without the problems of our financial institutions, we need reasonable regulations that will protect Main Street while at the same time allow Wall Street to do what it does best - make money for American investors.

The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.

We only share our ignorance with others, infact only it IS capable and contagious for it breeds in unawareness, on the contrary Intelligence belongs to an individual's territory, for his very functioning is 'other worldly' and he stands out from the mediocre crowd. What are YOU!

The financial crisis involved significant failures in the functioning, regulation, and supervision of OTC derivatives markets.

The American people deserve to have a fully functioning Supreme Court.

This brings us to one of the most poignant aspects of the intellectual's position. Anti-intellectualism, as I hope these pages have made clear, is founded in the democratic institutions and the egalitarian sentiments of this country. The intellectual class, whether or not it enjoys many of the privileges of an elite, is of necessity an elite in its manner of thinking and functioning.

For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.

It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.

Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.

The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned.

What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.

I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Art functioning as propaganda is not art.

What is a negative emotion? An emotion that is toxic to the body and interferes with its balance and harmonious functioning

In the social learning view, people are neither driven by inner forces nor buffeted by environmental stimuli. Rather, psychological functioning is explained in terms of a continuous reciprocal interaction of personal and environmental determinants.

A system of conservation based solely on economic self-interest is hopelessly lopsided. It tend to ignore, and thus eventually to eliminate many elements in the land community that lack commercial value, but that are essential to its healthy functioning. It assumes, falsely, I think, that the economic parts of the biotic clock will function without the uneconomic parts.

Experience has shown that communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted.

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'

One definitely wants to have a functioning hippocampus. It's all about learning and memory, the part blown out of the water by Alzheimer's disease. It's also the part that is most vulnerable to the effects of stress.