Function Quotes - Page 39

• In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you swim in your lane. That can be very effective for certain processes and in certain stable conditions. But it doesn't work in unstable conditions.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Organization, Swim

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• The notion of dream interpretation far antedates the birth of psychoanalysis, and probably served an important function in most, if not all, historical societies. In having lost this function, modern man has also lost the best part of his nature, which he obliviously passes on to the next generation of dreamers.

  Neel Burton

  Dream, Men, Historical

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• What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Political, Analysis, Tools

  "Real-World Change Can Come From Within" by Parker J. Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2012.

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• The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Reality, Men, Numbers

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• One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or “prove”) existence as such, or consciousness as such. These are irreducible primaries. (An attempt to “prove” them is self-contradict ory: it is an attempt to “prove” existence by means of nonexistence, and consciousness by means of unconsciousness .)

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Self, Study

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• A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

  Roman Jakobson

  Language, Poetic, Deaf

  Roman Jakobson, Krystyna Pomorska, Stephen Rudy (1987). “Language in Literature”, p.94, Harvard University Press

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• Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life's biggest questions,
  but actually, the opposite is true.
  
  The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to
  answer your questions, but to question your answers.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Teaching, Thinking

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• Normal muscles should function naturally in much the same manner as do the muscles of animals.

  Joseph Pilates

  Animal, Normal, Pilates

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• No matter how much talent you have in your mind and spirit, if your body is not able to function, you are not able to fulfill your destiny.

  T. D. Jakes

  Destiny, Mind, Body

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• Therefore, for me, living true to my self may be defined as: Making the daily choices in all areas of my life that are in the best interests of my survival, evolution and prosperity, that aid the ongoing achievement of the highest physical, mental and spiritual objectives of which I am capable, that are based on the most correct assessment of reality I have available, and that honor the evolving truth of who I am and who I choose to be, all in the personal pursuit of freedom, function, fun, as well as the highest good of all.

  Walt F. J. Goodridge

  Spiritual, Fun, Reality

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• I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.

  Seth Godin

  Life, Work, Writing

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• It is not God's function to create or uncreate the circumstances of your life. God created You, in the image and likeness of God. You have created the rest.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Faith, Conversations With God, Circumstances

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jan 24, 2014

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• Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

  Ned Rorem

  Artist, Fire, Each Day

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

  Jules Feiffer

  Frustration, Imagination, Tradition

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• Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Light, Law

  Aleister Crowley, John Symonds (1974). “The Complete Astrological Writings”, p.120, Dubois Publishing

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• Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.

  Ayn Rand

  Soul, Fountainhead, Values

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.514, Penguin

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• As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not function superbly... yes, beauty matters. Boy, does it matter. It is not surface, it is not an extra, it is the thing itself.

  Stephen Fry

  Boys, Style, Does It Matter

  "Welcome to dork talk" by Stephen Fry, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2007.

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• The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

  Thomas Beecham

  Conscious, Release, Music Is

  Quoted in Harold Atkins and Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978).

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• A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people

  John Wooden

  Player, People, Should

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• The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.

  James Madison

  Government, Majority, Minorities

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• Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Independence, Labels

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• [L]et us say that we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are forced to tell the truth, we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it.

  Michel Foucault

  Order, Needs, Demand

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• The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.

  John Chancellor

  Add, Information, Journalism

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• A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favourite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student's vulnerability and causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being. Martial art should not be passed out indiscriminately.

  Bruce Lee

  Teacher, Art, Mind

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• Learn respect for the feeling function: Become aware of and undo some of your (improper) cultural training so that you grant the moods and messages of the heart the same respect that you give the thoughts and ideas of the mind.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Heart, Ideas, Giving

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