Function Quotes

I do sometimes feel like I function within an echo chamber and I'm just kind of preaching to the choir. Weyes Blood
Sometimes Preaching Kind Echo Feel Like Within Just Just Kind Choir Function Chamber
Our desire for interconnectedness, our desire to be seen, our desire to be acknowledged, our desire to be liked - these are all deep needs, these survival instincts we've evolved to function in a tribal society. Weyes Blood
Needs Survival Tribal Seen Society Our Evolved Instincts Liked Interconnectedness Acknowledged Deep Function Desire
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal. William Ernest Henley
Confusion Whatever Appropriate Immortal Only Select Raw Raw Material Idle Material Accidental His Perpetuation Artist Irrelevant Which Gross Function Actuality Eliminate Copy
I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word on the street is unreliable. It's no more unreliable than that. You can find the truth on the street if you work at it. I don't think of the Internet or the virtual as being inherently inferior to the so-called real. William Gibson
Work Truth You Word Internet Think Virtual Find More Unreliable Part Real Than Inferior Being So-Called Inherently Large Function Large Part Street Extent
Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen. William Masters
You Natural People Sex Make Make It Happen Happen Teach Function
It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected. William Plomer
Man Creative Perceive Seemingly Connect Function
Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. Once it's done, fortunately, it doesn't mean there's closure. Wolfgang Tillmans
Work Me Books Once Wrap Understand Up Done Closure Mean Fortunately Help Function
As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also. Wynton Marsalis
You People Responsibility Power Jazz Other Musician Individual Also Sound Context Create Jazz Musician Who Function
Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it. Yolandi Visser
Machine Kind Able Record Record Companies Leaving Were Personal Personal Thing Certain Companies Function Thing
There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed. John O'Toole
People Communicate Speed Other Enough Enough People Way System About Economic Economic System Advertising Without American Information Products Function
The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all. Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Saying Sometimes Think Paper Object Something Prevent Indiscreet True Ambassador Anything Function Briefing
When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time. Santiago Calatrava
Work Time Architecture Think Worry Must About Piece Sculpture Function
The function of arts centers goes far beyond being places for performance. They might not be explicitly religious, but they are civic and social spaces. Santiago Calatrava
Religious Civic Performance Beyond Goes Arts Being Spaces Centers Places Social Explicitly Might Far Function
Human beings have been manipulating the biological world for thousands of years without understanding how DNA codes function. Frances Arnold
World Understanding Thousands Thousands Of Years DNA Without How Been Years Human Human Beings Manipulating Beings Function Codes Biological
What's the biggest function of a cell phone? What does a cell phone do for humanity? It makes people more productive. Martin Cooper
Cell Phone Humanity People Phone More Makes Does Cell Biggest Productive Function
Prisons function by isolating those of us who are incarcerated from any means of support other than those charged with keeping us imprisoned: first, they physically isolate us from the outside world and those in it who love us; then they work to divide prisoners from one another by inculcating our distrust in one another. Chelsea Manning
Work Love World First Other Our Those Charged Distrust Physically Divide Outside Outside World Support Another Isolate Prisoners Prisons Imprisoned Than Any Then Us Means Who Function Keeping
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure. Xavier Becerra
Failure Experience Result Chronic Kidney Deterioration More End End Result Disease Gradual Patients Where Which Function Twenty Million
Organizations are accumulations of historical debris. They are not consciously thought. So when you ask the Education Ministry ‘What's your core function and who's your client?' they laugh at you. When I say that the client is the Afghan child - and the Ministry is an instrument, not the goal - it's greeted with shock. It's a new idea. Ashraf Ghani
Education You Thought Say Laugh Ministry Idea New Instrument Client New Idea Goal Historical Debris Shock Child Afghan Ask Your Organizations Function Core
You would think that the U.S. government would not think that American firms needed subsidizing to function in developing countries, provide advice, but they do. Ashraf Ghani
Government You Advice Think Would U.S. Government Developing Developing Countries Countries Provide American Function Needed
The military is diverse and large, and it's public: it serves a public function; it serves a public duty. Chelsea Manning
Duty Military Diverse Public Large Function Serve
A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set. Tom Stoppard
Writer Movie Movie Set Much Really Function Set
Having kids, you can't function with a hangover. Ioan Gruffudd
You Kids Having Hangover Function
I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it. Deirdre O'Kane
Tea Know Real Just Psychological Whether Function Necessity Need
You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look. T. D. Jakes
Good Looks Outside Surprised Dysfunctional Function
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