Top 1200 Brain Function Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

Nothing gets done (in Congress) unless it's bipartisan. And the reason that matters is that it's a function of reality.

You see, writing down your meanderings gets something started deep in the recesses of your brain. That distant part of your mind knows that you want to write stories or poems or plays and not endless jabber, and it will get to work. It may take a while. You may have to write this stuff for hours or days or weeks, but eventually that subterranean part of your brain will come through and begin to send you ideas.

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.

There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

"Jack Reacher" was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.

The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'

Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

The iPod Shuffle was something unique for Apple: a device stripped down to a single function.

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.

I was dancing when I was acting as well. Actors generally dance in performances like in an award function.

MPs have no real knowledge of how to function other than via gimmick and briefings.

My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully. "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever." "And he has Brain." "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain." There was a long silence. "I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."

Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

My brain does like the idea of hosting a late-night show. My brain does like the idea of maybe having a show about me. So, I often pitch ideas and work on scripts and do that just because I may not be right about how I feel, so why not just do this, and if it happens and I got my own show, well maybe I would really end up falling in love with it.

In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

Every thought, feeling, and emotion creates a molecule known as a neuropeptide. Neuropeptides travel throughout your body and hook onto receptor sites of cells and neurons. Your brain takes in the information, converts it into chemicals, and lets your whole body know if there's trouble in the world or cause for celebration. Your body is directly influenced as these molecules course through the bloodstream, delivering the energetic effect of whatever your brain is thinking and feeling.

All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

They perform an essential function in keeping our borders secure and I oppose an abolishing of ICE.

Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.

If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.

What I argued in 'The Great Divide' is that societies can't function without trust, both politically and economically.

One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall.

In this age, if the currency of a major nation collapses, or its access to borrowing ends, it just can't function.

Warranty ? A notice telling the buyer when the product that was just purchased will no longer function.

I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.

Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.

And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it

Technical advisor. Since you know our enemies so well, we’re going to pick your brain. (Jericho) I’ll tell you what you want to know. There's no need to torture me for it. (Asmodeus) Pick your brain is an idiomatic expression, Asmodeus. It means we’ll have you tell us things. We’re not actually going in there to mess with your head. (Delphine) Oh, thank the Source. I can’t stand it when someone opens my skull. It really hurts. (Asmodeus)

My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure".

Language [can] be expressed . . . by movements of the hands and face just as well as by the small, sound-generating movements of the throat and mouth. Then the first criterion for language that I had learned as a student—it is spoken and heard—was wrong; and, more important, language did not depend on our ability to speak and hear but must be a more abstract capacity of the brain. It was the brain that had language, and if that capacity was blocked in one channel, it would emerge through another.

We have to be careful that we don't keep multiplying disorders and diluting them. I think there is a difference. People talk about Asperger's as high-functioning autism, which I think it is. But it does have some of its own characteristics, like the preservation of language, particularly, which may be right brain dysfunction instead of left brain dysfunction, and we lose something in that, as things lose their specificity, and we keep diluting things. I'm not sure that's helpful.

A flag translates into everything, from tacky souvenirs to the names of organizations and the way that flags function.

What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion.

I think our collective psychosis is hilarious. With the world moving as fast as it is, if we weren't dysfunctional, we couldn't function.

To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt a lot of fear in early stages, when they're just realizing what's happening. But then things really seemed to be at their peak of terror, the fear went away. You can imagine why that's useful. At that moment your brain needs to focus all its attention on surviving, so people will feel a sense of calm as their brain tries to sort out a plan.

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.