Function Quotes - Page 9

• I think we should be worried about the fact that we have become, as a society, very focused on the way people look, the way they dress. I do think we should worry about that because we should be worried about content. We should be worried about ideas. We should not be putting form over function.

  Christy Clark

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Meditators are shown to have thickening in parts of the brain structure that deal with attention, memory and sensory functions. This was found to be more noticeable in older, more practiced meditators than in younger adults which is interesting because this structure usually tends to get thinner as we age.

  Philippa Perry

  Memories, Interesting, Brain

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial sway - which was attuned to furnish the raw materials for the British manufacturing ascendance. So they were mutually reinforcing.

  Charles R. Morris

  Military, British Navy, Essentials

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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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'll work on patient's thoughts about sleep, "So I must get eight hours of sleep tonight or I won't sleep tomorrow." That sometimes - or "I won't function tomorrow." That sometimes makes it very difficult for you to sleep at night

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Night, Eight

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.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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• 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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• I think what we need is better understanding of how to do risk analysis of a CDO, but that they still can perform a very valuable function because they can aggregate these risks and pass them around so that mortgages or other kinds of loans can be packaged and sold to investors all over the world, who in most times, would justify a small amount of each one.

  Robert F. Engle

  Thinking, Understanding, Risk

  Source: bigthink.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In order to function and pay our bills and our taxes and feed our families and stuff, musicians have to make a living. It's not about being a millionaire. It's about being able to survive. When there are people constantly stealing from you, it's quite frustrating. It's a matter of changing the public's option about doing it.

  Matt Snell

  Order, People, Musician

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely - I think these stories function as a kind of mythology for us.

  Adam Frank

  Thinking, Superhero, Zombie

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in the future. We know only that it is something dynamic - unlike many ideas that have governed us.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Art, Ideas, Today

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• Neorealism taught us to follow the characters with the camera, allowing each shot its own real interior time. Well, I became tired of all this; I could no longer stand real time. In order to function, a shot must show only what is useful.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Real, Tired, Character

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• Now I realize, and I acknowledge, that the right brain/left brain distinction is a tremendous oversimplification. We don't come neatly divided into right and left hemispheres, but the fact is that the two hemispheres of the brain do specialize in certain functions.

  Darold Treffert

  Two, Brain, Hemisphere

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part III:". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 15, 2011.

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• The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Second Amendment, Obsolete, Amendments

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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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• I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the answer." It's not an op-ed.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• People will find some ways of identifying themselves, becoming associated with others, taking part in something. They're going to do it some way or other. If they don't have the options of participation in labor unions, political organizations that actually function, they'll find other ways. Religious fundamentalism is a classic example.

  Noam Chomsky

  Religious, Organization, People

  Source: chomsky.info

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• After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing the world. And each individual believes his way is reality.

  David Eagleman

  Believe, Reality, Differences

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.89, Vintage

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