Function For Quotes: top 76 famous quotes about Function For

Function For Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Function For quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display. — Herbert Wilf

Sometimes it's learning how the play wants to function rather than imposing something on it. For me, that's the thrill in directing. — David Rabe

At what point do we admit that the NFL's true economic function is to channel our desire for athletic heroism into an engine of nihilistic greed? — Steve Almond

I think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America's action film. — Paul Dano

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. — Neil Gaiman

Loss of mental function, taste for Frank Sinatra music, and similar degenerative effects. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives. — John Zerzan

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. — Lucian Freud

Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood. — Henry Ward Beecher

Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer. — Wole Soyinka

Our capacity for production and enjoyment is ?a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity. — Stephen Covey

A good soul like a good body should be as unobtrusive as possible; in so far as it functions properly, it should not be noticed for good or for ill. — C.E.M. Joad

The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it. — Benjamin Graham

I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what happened, I couldn't function. — Torii Hunter

It is the historian's function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever. — Jacob Burckhardt

A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function — Gottfried Bohm

The function of advertising is simply to promote and sustain competitive advantage for brands. — John Hegarty

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. — George Santayana

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people. — George Bernard Shaw

The form came out of the function because it is for the audience that already knows the show, while hoping to get a new audience, too. — Mitchell Hurwitz

New synonyms for sex: Going to a family function, getting the hard part over with, anti-fillet. Get it? Sex! — Dana Gould

There is a role and function for beauty in our time. — Tadao Ando

Leaders know where they can function better. They don't cry over what they cannot do. — Israelmore Ayivor

It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm. — Idries Shah

I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function. — Britt Ekland

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. — Morris West

Serotonin, the "feel-good" brain chemical that is boosted by Prozac, depends on magnesium for its production and function. — Carolyn Dean

A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently. — Tamra Davis

But though we must pretend otherwise in order to function, none of us can know the script for any day. — Jill Fredston

statins may lessen brain function and increase risk for heart disease. The reason is simple: The brain needs cholesterol — David Perlmutter

How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate? — Beatrice Sparks

The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours. — Lee Adams

For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him. — Carl Jung

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. — Clive Bell

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government. — Barry Goldwater

For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very existence an offering. — Jaggi Vasudev

B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two; Once prized for the function, Now for the view. — Robert Smith

The manager's function is not to make people work, it is to make it possible for people to work. — Tom DeMarco

Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always. — Morgan Freeman

Even if dogma has a purpose, it can never function as a substitute for faith, only as a dry aspect of it. — Nathan Lopes Cardozo

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. — Margaret Barber

The stereotype of aging as a progressive loss of function is generally true only for people who stop functioning. — Joan Z. Borysenko

You may be scorned in the public because of your race it is a function that there is an assignment for you there — Sunday Adelaja

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies. — Stephen King

A bot had to find his own way, and I'd figured out that functioning for function's sake was pointless." - Mack Megaton — A. Lee Martinez

Money is a function of value creation. The more value you create for other people, the higher the sales of your organization. — Robin Sharma

The greatest leverage for healing is found at the subtlest levels of function. — Rudolph Ballentine

Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other. — Carol Saline

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels. — Andy Goldsworthy

TV dramas function as vehicles for remodeling female subjects for the new social order - in other words, as an agent for change. — Jie Yang

The purpose of subduing is a function of taking responsibility for the entire earth — Sunday Adelaja

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein ... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function. — Frederick Pollock

Sometimes it's nice to be sick, to give up trying to function, to crawl into bed and be cared for a little. — Laurel Snyder

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value? — Bernard Berenson

while fiction is but a form of symbolic action, a mere game of "as if," therein lies its true function and its potential for effecting change. — Ralph Ellison

I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function. — Noah Baumbach

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it. — Etgar Keret

We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action. — J. D. Bernal

Mysticism is the function of a mind looking for alternatives to reality. — Neal Asher

The convenient function of every celebrated machine for living is to produce machines to live in them. — Chris Campanioni

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience — William James

For every function there is an order — Sunday Adelaja

I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them. — Dennis Kucinich

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. — William S. Burroughs

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles. — Umberto Eco

It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason. — Robert Morrison MacIver

There is no doubt that nations come to an end when they have ceased to fulfill the function that God meant for them. — Billy Graham

'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means. — Joshua Prince-Ramus

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. — Daniel Webster

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't. — Colum McCann

The body's immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host. — Anthony Fauci

We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function. — Paul Park

The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such. — Ron Silliman

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action. — W. Edwards Deming

I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out. — Jack Dee

How difficult it is to find a good name for a function is a good indication of how clear a concept it is that — Marijn Haverbeke