Quotes of: Functional Keyword

The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.

Irwin Redlener

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

The heart of [J.G.] Ballard's vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time.

Tacita Dean

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

Thurgood Marshall

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

Michael Behe

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

Martin Luther

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

Robert Smithson

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

Stokely Carmichael

In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Mine is a job that never ends, a function where it is almost impossible to set aside time to rest or take a breather.

Alber Elbaz

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Johan Huizinga

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

Carter G. Woodson

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

Arthur Capper

Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.

Irwin Winkler

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

John Rawls

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

Kevin Kelly

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

Edward Thorndike

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

Havelock Ellis

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

Farley Mowat