Quotes About Functioning

I felt as you get older, you're trying to find ways to improve your well-being, functioning, and energy level.

Denial is huge for any alcoholic, especially for a functioning alcoholic, because I - you know, I'm not living under a bridge. I haven't been arrested.

I have the greatest respect for single parents who struggle and sacrifice, trying against almost superhuman odds to hold the family together. They should be honored and helped in their heroic efforts. But any mother's or father's task is much easier where there are two functioning parents in the home.

The party-state structure still showed considerable looseness in organization and mode of functioning.

We must make ourselves study as deeply as possible the technology we use, the functioning of the group we work in, the economics of our field, its lifeblood. We must constantly ask the questions—how do things work, how do decisions get made, how does the group interact?

not just every object but the whole culturally experienced world is an 'achievement' of what he terms 'anonymous' or 'functioning subjectivity'.

difficulties in interpersonal functioning, particularly with intimacy and empathy.

In those with narcissistic pathology in the higher range of functioning, enduring relationships may be maintained but they often are superficial and shallow, organized primarily to buttress self-esteem and protect the grandiose self

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

The more I'm let alone and not worried the better I can function.

The whole thing seemed to run better while I was away.

I think what Americans need and what Mainers need more than anything is government that functions and I think that the filibuster prevents us from functioning and making progress on issues.

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.

I got a sneak peek into the functioning of the film industries of the south through Telugu cinema. This industry has helped me understand how to adapt to various styles of filmmaking. It's been liberating.

The object of painting a picture is-however unreasonable that may sound... The object which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. The picture is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of that state.

El liderazgo es una filosofía, una actitud, un estado de la mente, una forma de funcionar. Y es algo que está al alcance de todos al margen del lugar que ocupes en una organización.

I'm tryin' to be part of a functioning society so I can't listen to Curren$y man. His rhymes make me high haha.

Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.

That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.

We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.

La théorie, c'est quand on sait tout et que rien ne fonctionne. La pratique, c'est quand tout fonctionne et que personne ne sait pourquoi. Ici, nous avons réuni théorie et pratique : Rien ne fonctionne… et personne ne sait pourquoi

La felicidad universal conserva los engranajes funcionando con regularidad; la verdad y la belleza, no. Y

A felicidade universal mantém as engrenagens em funcionamento regular; a verdade e a beleza são incapazes de fazê-lo.

They paid the deposit immediately and appeared to be good tenants although they were reluctant to invite him over the threshold once they had moved in. "There is no need for you to come in," he had been told by a burly Russian who answered the door when he had called to see whether all was well. "There is nothing wrong. Everything functions. We are very happy. Goodbye.