Top 1200 Brain Function Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Without a stable mind, it's difficult for anything else to function.

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

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.

Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.

If you analyse the function of an object, its form often becomes obvious.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

If it is a woman's function to give, she must be replenished, too.

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open.

I really do not want to carry some kind of party function.

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

Play like dreams serves the function of self realization.

Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.

Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.

I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.

The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

Success in battle is not a function of how many show up, but who they are.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.

... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

I view all art as an effort to translate brain concepts into a work. These brain concepts are synthetic ones - the result of many experiences. But a single work of art, or even a series of works, more often than not cannot translate these synthetic concepts adequately. Yves Saint Laurent once said that he suffered greatly when creating. He is not alone in that. Most artists do the same and say as much.

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

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

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

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

Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.

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

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

A computer doesn't have a mind of its own - it needs someone else's to function.

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

The right kind of practice is not a matter of hours. Practice should represent the utmost concentration of brain. It is better to play with concentration for two hours than to practice eight without. I should say that four hours would be a good maximum practice time-I never ask more of my pupils-and that during each minute of the time the brain be as active as the fingers.

You know, you don't see with your eyes You see with your brain And the more words your brain has The more things you can see

the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

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

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.

Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Most importantly, I strive for function above all in every house.

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.

Just as important as getting enough sleep is thinking about sleep in the right way. Stop thinking of sleep and naps as “downtime” or as a “waste of time.” Think of them as opportunities for memory consolidation and enhancing the brain circuits that help skill learning. Nor should you feel guilty about sleep. It's just as crucial a part of successful brain work as the actual task itself.

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.