Quotes About Functioning

In a functioning liberal democracy, we cannot normalize political violence.

In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices.

I have a very competent case of ADD.

If you're experiencing symptoms such as depression, anxiety, uncontrolled use of substances, or any other behaviors that affect your functioning, please see a professional.

Still alive, he thought, heart beating senselessly, veins running without point, bones and muscles and tissue all alive and functioning with no purpose at all.

Manic-depressive illness, often seasonal, is recurrent by nature; left untreated, individuals with this disease can expect to experience many, and generally worsening, episodes of depression and mania. It is important to note, however, that most individuals who have manic-depressive illness are normal most of the time; that is, they maintain their reason and their ability to function personally and professionally.

This is a great universal truth; we are by nature healthy; illness is an unnatural, temporary state when certain systems of the body are not functioning as they should. The harmonious flow of chi restores a person's natural functions. It is also excellent for overcoming emotional and mental problems and managing stress.

our brain's healthy functioning requires regular physical activity despite the passage of time and ills of the aging process.

You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.

God is not a being among other beings, but the infinite Whither that makes possible the very functioning of our human spirit.

When children don't sleep, or don't sleep enough, many things can go wrong. Examples include being so sleepy that they cannot learn or function normally, or having abnormal hormone function, which may predispose them to obesity and diabetes.

even a one-hour shortage in appropriate sleep time will compromise a child's alertness and brain functioning and increase fatigue.

You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society.

A well-functioning judicial or education system is just as much part of the wealth of a nation as its roads, ports and factories.

Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.

I don't think that I will say that we are less talented in Bollywood, but our functioning is different. We cater to a different kind of audience.

Psychotherapy and medication both produce similar changes in brain functioning.18 There is a biochemical process in depression, but the individual has been made susceptible to depression through life experiences.

Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most Americans) reports mostly what the people in power do, and repeats what the people in power say, the public is badly informed, and it means we cannot really say we have a functioning democracy.

Everything hinges on how you relate to your brain. By setting higher expectations, you enter a phase of higher functioning. One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do.

Hay un antiguo dicho de la facultad de medicina: las personas utilizan tan solo alrededor de un 10 por ciento de su cerebro. Literalmente, no es cierto. En un adulto sano, las redes neuronales operan al máximo de su capacidad todo el tiempo.

But I no longer believe that trust is essential to organizational functioning or even to effective leadership. Why? Because the data suggest that trust is notable mostly by its absence. Nevertheless, organizations continue to roll along, as do their leaders who seemingly suffer few consequences for being untrustworthy.

Engrave this Quote Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

Pressure is how you know everything's working