Quotes on Function

All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two — basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are 'costs'.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our thought, but our feelings and actions too, in a way which goes far beyond its official function as a biological theory.

The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.

I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, and placing our rising generation on the level of our sister states (which they have proudly held heretofore), I was discharging the odious function of a physician pouring medicine down the throat of a patient insensible of needing it.

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the soul, till men of science, speculating, in their non-scientific intervals, like other men on what science may possibly lead to, have prophesied that we shall soon have to confess that the soul is nothing else than a function of certain complex material systems.

But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation.

My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright. They are all very kind to me.

The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,_x000D_ _x000D_ Lives not alone immured in the brain;_x000D_ _x000D_ But, with the motion of all elements,_x000D_ _x000D_ Courses as swift as thought in every power,_x000D_ _x000D_ And gives to every power a double power,_x000D_ _x000D_ Above their functions and their offices.