Top 1200 Brain Function Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

Whenever you interact with people,don't be there primarily as a function or a role,But as a Field of conscious Presence

Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.

Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.

Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.

The products people like best start with function and wind up with look.

I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

Any government cannot work or function if it does not enjoy popular support.

I never needed much sleep. But I've always said that is a function of do you enjoy life.

I think we do have a better understanding now of how moral thought and discourse function.

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader.

No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago, are laid out in straight lines. Like the circuits on computer chips, there are a lot of right angles in cities like this. But London is a glorious mess. It evolved from a score or so of distinct villages, that merged and meshed as their boundaries enlarged. As a result, London is a labyrinth, full of turnings and twistings just like a brain.

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.

When he was on the streets, I was consumed with Nic. I was obsessed with him to the point that I could barely function.

With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.

A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.

Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag.

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.

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

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up.

As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.

I'm like a three-and-a-half, four-hour-a-night sleeper. It's not enough to function.

It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

We have to have a school board that's actually gonna be able to function and that has true parent representatives on it.

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates. The worst vaccine of all is the whooping cough vaccine... it is responsible for a lot of deaths and for a lot of infants suffering irreversible brain damage. In susceptible infants, it knocks their immune systems about, leading to irreparable brain damage, or severe attacks or even deaths from diseases like pneumonia or gastro-enteritis and so on.

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.

Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior.

I'm always really impressed when a movie can function like a novel does - that's so hard to do.

I function better in a world where I have to wake up every morning to go to work.

The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.

The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.

When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.

My dream is to produce a generation of actors who realise what the function of an actor in a movie is supposed to be.

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.

I had to learn how to function as a human being. And I really enjoyed that process.

The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.

The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.