Top 373 Functional Quotes & Sayings

If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.

I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.

Through our perceptual systems, we represent our surroundings, aiming to do so accurately, where the aiming is functional or teleological, rather than intentional. And the same goes for our functional beliefs. Through our judgments, however, we do intentionally, even consciously, attempt to get it right.

Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly.

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

Once we have a nice, conceptual sketch and rendering and design approved, then it's really about pinpointing what's functional and what's not, because functional equals expensive.

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

Each piece of dialogue MUST be "something happening". . .The "amusing" for its OWN sake should above all be censored. . .The functional use of dialogue for the plot must be the first thing in the writer's mind. Where functional usefulness cannot be established, dialogue must be left out.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines

Light has an evident, functional and aesthetic impact on our lives.

Yet Buddhism is four hundred years older than Christianity, and if it's not a universal religion I don't know what a universal religion is. There's also a strong focus on selectionism and the notion that religion plays a functional role in the evolutionary process. But religion is dysfunctional all the time, as well as functional. It's not so simple.

As a kid I was very conscious of trying to be functional and not be too odd.

I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.

Grief is a bit of a journey, and it is evolving all the time but I am very functional.

To the designer, great design is beautiful design. A significant amount of effort must be placed into making the product attractive. To the client, great design is effective. It must bring in customers and meet the goals put forth to the designer in the original brief. To the user, great design is functional. It’s easy to read, easy to use and easy to get out of it what was promised Truly great design, then, is when these three perspectives are considered and implemented equally to create a final product that is beautiful, effective and functional.

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them.

The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only those technologies that prove functional for a culture and can be integrated into everyday life are 'left over.' However, the perception of what is functional, successful and useful is itself the product of social and cultural--and last but not least--political and economic processes. Selection processes and abandoned products and product forms are usually not discussed.

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.

Sunglasses are not only for functional use but also necessary for complementing your whole look.

When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this country are truly functional, Australia will be as beautiful in its own way as classical Greece.

My favorite outdoor activities are running, yoga, and functional training. My favorite indoor workouts are Pilates, kickboxing, functional training, and a lot of different exercises at the gym with and without weights - including TRX.

This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language is an irreconcilably anti-critical and anti-dialectical language. In it, operational and behavioral rationality absorbs the transcendent, negative, oppositional elements of Reason.

I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.

Very rarely is there actually a functional reason for a fashion rule

If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.

I'm a fan of functional strength.

I work out every day - and my daily routine is a mix of functional and strength training.

If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of functional design.

I'm proud to be working with LifeAid. The brand is focused on clean and functional ingredients.

I want to invest in a functional product that people are using.

I view my hair and clothes as functional art.

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

When a silhouette or shape is as beautiful as it is functional and relevant, that's true luxury.

A united, functional opposition really could stop Brexit.

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.

There are three different kinds of scripting: functional, informational and emotional.

My daughter is like a tether back to the functional world, and I'm aware of how helpful that is.

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

In a very dysfunctional business, CNN happens to be the most functional network I've worked at.

I try to make my things aesthetically pleasing; but, if it isn’t functional, people will ‘oo’ and ‘aah’ over it in an exhibit but they won’t buy it. … My feeling is a chair has to be functional and comfortable for tall and short alike.

When you're in a functional friendship or a functional relationship, and you feel like you've got something to share, you can share it with a friend, a lover or whatever.

I think I fully commit myself to any role to the extent to which I can. In other words there's some roles that maybe it's just not there, in other words on the page. You know, I mean your job is you need to play the governor and that's what you do. I mean I'm not going to stay up all night if I'm playing a functional role. And I've played a couple of functional roles. And so I'm not going to do anything other, look he's a functional guy. He says hey mister, you forgot your hat.

Rock bands are not exactly magnets of functional people.

Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition.

This is what I've always been interested in, trying to make timeless, functional, real clothes.

I was a functional addict.

We look at each one [project] and consider the context - what it is and what it can be - beyond the strictly functional concerns.

Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.

I like decorative, functional things that I feel comfortable in.

The goal of physiological research is functional nature.

For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.

Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Stop for a moment and let that sink in. We’re so used to evaluating everything (and everyone) by their usefulness that this thought will take a minute or two to begin to dawn on us. Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Which is to say, beauty is in and of itself a great and glorious good, something we need in large and daily doses.

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

JS will be a real functional language.

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional.