Top 101 Functional Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Functional Quotes from famous people such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Roman Reigns, Marv Levy, Steve Bannon, Brian Shaw, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and

It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city.
Jhumpa Lahiri
The Tae-Bo guy has a good body on him. I believe in evolution as far as lifting and training and building muscle. I was doing functional movement before CrossFit was ever a thing. I was playing football, doing platform lifts, all kinds of wacky kettle-bell stuff before kettle bells were kettle bells.
Roman Reigns
Chronological age is only an approximation of your functional age.
Marv Levy
We don’t believe there is a functional conservative party in this country, and we certainly don’t think the Republican Party is that.
Steve Bannon
Being a strongman is a real test of functional strength. What can you pick up, carry and how fast can you move it. It’s not a weight room strength, it takes brute strength and power to lift, carry and pull all types objects from fire engines, Mack trucks, transport planes and large stones.
Brian Shaw
We’ve been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn’t have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.
Dan Marino
After you have kids, you feel differently about your body. Aesthetically, am I happy with my body? No. I definitely think you come to view it as more functional. But you just get past it.
Helen Skelton
A really fun fan moment was when a fan gave me a copy of ‘Legend’ that he had turned into a functional clock!
Marie Lu
Yeah I got all sorts of guns. I got functional guns, I got guns for looks, I got hunting rifles, and everything in between.
Dan Bilzerian
The goal of physiological research is functional nature.
Walter Rudolf Hess
I do a lot of weight training, and my workouts are intense, which include cardios, core body workouts, and functional training.
Karan Patel
There’s no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it’s hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of ‘Great Expectations,’ even among the minor characters.
David Nicholls
Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I’m happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look – it’s useable, functional muscle.
Channing Tatum
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.
Izabel Goulart
For me, the most important consideration is to choose attire that is functional, but looks stylish too. That means going for colors that are understated and use smart fabrics.
Chris Hoy
As a young boy in Libya, it was hard to escape the conclusion that the women were the most feeling and most functional part of society.
Hisham Matar
Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.
Martha MacIsaac
The ability of the humans to not only function in space but be very functional when they arrive at their destination, those are the kinds of things we’re learning from the science. Fuel transfer technologies and all the things we can learn about the space environment are all valuable to us for pressing on out.
Kevin A. Ford
A functional biological clock has three components: input from the outside world to set the clock, the timekeeping mechanism itself, and genetic machinery that allows the clock to regulate expression of a variety of genes.
Jeffrey C. Hall
If someone arrives, fully functional yet a tabula rasa, how does their environment influence, educate, even mold them? And if that is a nurture question, then where does that character’s nature fit in? How does that manifest?
Greg Rucka
I do the functional stuff. I go to the gym and do all these things by myself. I don’t have a routine. I like to do new stuff all the times.
Isabeli Fontana
If you could literally ‘rid’ yourself of your problems by voicing them, I’d be all for it. But since that isn’t so, why not reserve the spoken word for functional interactions and witticisms, if not declarations of love?
Amity Gaige
I like CrossFit. I agree with a lot of their coaching tips and the foundation of functional movements and hard work. They embody all that stuff. But I also think there’s a bit of a cult following within the CrossFit community, a bit of a fraternity, which obviously creates a bias and a little bit of a tunnel vision.
Roman Reigns
I don’t know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.
Andie MacDowell
I think that the climate within the band has changed, it’s now in a more functional situation.
Billy Sherwood
In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable of generating behaviors and, ultimately, thinking. Instead, the true functional unit of the central nervous system is a population of neurons, or neural ensembles or cell assemblies.
Miguel Nicolelis
I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.
Ahmet Zappa
As a kid I was very conscious of trying to be functional and not be too odd.
Pendleton Ward
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
Arne Jacobsen
Being resourceful and creating is a big part of my Lithuanian culture. My grandfather is part of who I am, too. He was a professional wrestler. He had a very functional, very slick, long frame.
Rose Namajunas
I’m proud to be working with LifeAid. The brand is focused on clean and functional ingredients.
Kevon Looney
Sunglasses are not only for functional use but also nec

Sunglasses are not only for functional use but also necessary for complementing your whole look.
Fala Chen
One killer exercise that’s really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That’s my favourite. It’s such functional core strength, and that’s why I can climb up trees and down vines.
Bear Grylls
A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.
Jay Griffiths
Besides controlling my diet, I did functional training, weights, pilates and cardio everyday.
Daisy Shah
The circadian neurons are one of the few circuits in neurobiology where we have a chance to understand at multiple levels how different sets of neurons communicate with each other – including understanding the wiring rules, the biochemical rules, and the functional behavioral rules.
Michael Rosbash
The two most important functional aspects to be fulfilled in a transportation facility are ease of wayfinding and easy orientation.
Santiago Calatrava
Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly, it’s about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it, and introducing it to a customer. What they’ve done just inspires me.
Mickey Drexler
There’s very little admirable about being a pirate. There’s very little functional about a pirate. There’s very little real about a pirate.
Will Oldham
There’s different ways to approach music for sleeping. Things like white noise are functional, like a lullaby. This is more like an inquiry, a question about how music and sleep fit together.
Max Richter
The affinity towards suits was a functional thing for me early on because I was thrifting at secondhand shops, and it was also initially a way of grieving – my father had passed, and he used to wear suits all the time.
Jidenna
Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
Ferdinand Porsche
People craved orientation. It was a very basic primal need. So we could create a boundary that served lots of functional purposes and especially create boundaries that people would camp along.
Larry Harvey
EDM is very functional. It’s meant to make people jump up and down and go crazy and it’s real good at that. I just think in terms of expression, it’s very very limiting.
Porter Robinson
Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.
Victor Grignard
There are two big benefits from moving conversations from a mode where you’re addressing individuals, or groups of individuals, to addressing a channel which is a topic, a project, a functional discipline, or whatever.
Stewart Butterfield
Function is fundamental to design, of course. If something doesn’t work, it’s a bad product, and I certainly get frustrated by things that aren’t functional. But there has to be more than function. A house has to function, but if that’s all it does, you don’t love it.
Marcel Wanders
I do a healthy blend of mixed martial arts, dancing, functional training, and swimming. These exercises give me ample strength, endurance, flexibility, and stamina.
Urvashi Rautela
A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion – several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
Bennet Omalu
I train five days a week hard – but it is short and sharp – 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.
Bear Grylls
African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It’s not a dormant. It’s not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
Mos Def
My husband and I own a CrossFit Gym. Crossfit is perfect for me because it’s always competitive, all the workouts are in a class environment, and it’s different every day. It’s a constantly varied functional fitness workout done with intensity.
Chelan Simmons