Function Quotes - Page 8

• In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.

  Elaine Equi

  Needs, Machines

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

  Bassem Youssef

  Denial, Way, Facts

  "Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, February 3, 2016.

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• If managers knew how deeply their behaviors could affect brain function - whether they are piling up too much work on someone or yelling at them for "motivational purposes", they would quit doing it.

  John Medina

  Yelling, Brain, Purpose

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.

  Ryan Shapiro

  Government, Democracy, Information

  Source: news.vice.com

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• I don't think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory's function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even a little sheepish, about its ex cathedra pronouncements.

  Paul Fry

  Thinking, Self, Criticism

  "Originality matters". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 10, 2012.

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• I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred years, and to argue that this "exceptional figure" serves a conservative function in modern culture that bears closer interrogation than it has commonly received.

  Richard Marshall

  Book, Writing, Years

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a stylistically daring writer in love with surrealism, credited with being 'the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali literature'. But though the (male) establishment used this label of erotica to dismiss her work, the sex scenes have exactly the same transgressive function as her use of chronology and narrative voice.

  Deborah Smith

  Sex, Narrative Voice, Males

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Brain, Wells

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Well, the actual function of the brain, not so sure yet. There's a lot of different theories about it, but when you talk about psychologically in your brain, a lot of people with insomnia, though not all, report that they can't turn their minds off.

  Shelby Harris

  Insomnia, People, Brain

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece function as a prologue, but I find the word "intention," confusing ("trust the art," as D.H. Lawrence said, "not the artist"). These speculations are perhaps better responded to by text and reader, rather than author.

  Laura Mullen

  Art, Book, Confusing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You know, there's a growing level of disenchantment with governing institutions in Brazil. And in a sense, it's a healthy development because you have investigators and prosecutors going to work and finding out these things and revealing them to the public. But as a result, you have a lot of growing distrust in the way that government functions in Brazil.

  Simon Romero

  Government, Healthy, Growing

  "Brazil's Former President Questioned In Corruption Investigation". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• One of the functions of literary criticism, or reviewing, generally - and I, most of my reviews actually are not about literature - but one of the functions of that is basically the sort of Consumer Reports function of letting readers know whether this is something they want to read.

  Louis Menand

  Criticism, Literature, Want

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a sort of witness to what is going on in our organisms.

  Antonio Damasio

  Simple, Self, Organization

  "What Is Consciousness?" by David Hirschman, bigthink.com.

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• Emotional function and cognitive function aren't unrelated to each other. They're completely intertwined.

  Amishi Jha

  Emotional, Intertwined, Cognitive

  Source: www.gq.com

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• We've looked at sleep diaries of patients with insomnia, and they'll say that they don't sleep for one or two days. And the body actually has a natural function, after about the third day to start catching up and you get a little bit more sleep the third night. And that's usually what I tell my patients.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Night, Insomnia

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making religious artifacts and sacred art. That is what I would call a direct culture, in that everybody in it is directly in touch with all the elements, both of the culture and of the environment.

  Michael Ventura

  Religious, Art, Creativity

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I try to write lyrics that will be able to function on their own if they get separated from the music. But I wouldn't want to take anything away from poets, who work without the frames songwriters get from melody, and I think lyrics should be considered as their own thing.

  John K. Samson

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• When women and blacks were let in, the system didn't miss a beat. When gays are given their equality, the system will be as stable/unstable as it was before. And when animals are liberated one day, the world will be a beautiful place and the system will still function.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Beautiful, Gay, Animal

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry.

  Ryan Shapiro

  Democracy, Informed Citizenry, Citizenry

  Source: news.vice.com

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• To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.

  Zicheng Hong

  Attitude, People, Deception

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• There's also an aspect which I tried to express yesterday by saying the same "something" that looks out through Curlys eyes is also the same exact thing which looks out of Moe's eyes, and that's harder for people to grasp. So the thing is, you have to find a way to ultimately embrace both sides or else you can't function. If you only embrace the side of pure oneness then you end up sort of spacing out and sitting under a blanket.

  Brad Warner

  Eye, Oneness, Yesterday

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Even an organization that doesn't do much work internationally will benefit from a culturally intelligent strategy to innovation. Working across different generations, business units, regions, and functions are all factors that can also influence the innovation process.

  David Livermore

  Intelligent, Organization, Innovation

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I do think that it is legitimate to talk of goals and functions in nature, and that these things can be made sense of in naturalistic terms. There is nothing at all contrary to naturalism in the idea of goal-directed systems.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Thinking, Ideas, Goal

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I went and studied graphic design, because it seemed to me that advertising is more honest - the image actually has a function. But once I started on that, I realized that was really boring.

  Brian Froud

  Design, Honest, Advertising

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Creativity is one of the most important brain functions in developing youth. It is the ultimate road to invention. I believe it is really important to both nurture and encourage this in children - and adults, too!

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Children, Believe, Creativity

  "This Is the Secret to Letting Your Kid Get Messy Without Losing It". Interview with Kate Schweitzer, www.popsugar.com. March 2, 2016.

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