If consciousness can function independently of the body during one’s lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.
Desserts are all about form and function, about warm and hot and cold. I want every component to hit your palate on different levels at different times.
Too much redesign has to do more with fad and fashion than with fitness and function. It is change for the sake of change. Such redesign is not only unnecessary, it is all too often also retrogressive, leading to things that work less effectively than those they were designed to replace.
When I work on sculpture, I don’t have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
I support the Volcker rule, but there needs to be proper definitions around the Volcker rule so that banks can understand exactly what they can do and what they can’t do, and that they can provide the necessary function of liquidity in customer markets.
Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won’t be able to function properly.
It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.
Michelle Obama blows my mind. Form and function, style and grace.
The military is diverse and large, and it’s public: it serves a public function; it serves a public duty.
As a function of the easy access to information provided by the Internet, and the ease with which it can be shared thanks to social media, consumers are now better informed as to the behavior of brands and the multiple global crises we face.
The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes… cities so packed that they will no longer function… vertical sprawl.
I’m learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that’s how it is. I’m really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don’t need to drink.
I was dancing when I was acting as well. Actors generally dance in performances like in an award function.
I think ‘The Avengers’ is a Black Widow movie. She saves the day. And if you take her out, the plot does not function.
My job is to hire the best and brightest employees and empower them to do their best work. As a manager, I am not a mind reader nor an expert at every job function. Therefore, it is incumbent on all hires to feel empowered to tell me what resources they need to do their job.
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
Economies typically do not function well in hyperinflation. The real value of government debt might disappear, but the economy is likely to disappear with it.
It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
Now, I was one of those kids who grew up privy to both his parents’ secrets, who acted as the intermediary between them and eased their estrangements: that was my function in the household.
Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.
If your home is anything like mine, it contains several rarely explored crannies stashed full of archaic chargers, defunct cables, and freshly antiquated gizmos whose sole useful function in 2011 is to make 2005 feel like 1926, simply by looking big and dull and impossibly lumpen.
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
I function better in a world where I have to wake up every morning to go to work.
Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.
Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.
By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning.
I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences… essential to that institution’s ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.
The Democratic Party, the mainstream media are using fear to control people and to control African Americans in particular. You cannot function properly if you live in an irrational fear.
I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles of populism and social consciousness I aspire to in my own practice.
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
The human brain works in, so far, mysterious and wondrous ways that are completely different than the ways that computers calculate. Things like appetite or emotion, how do those function in the brain?
I believe in breakfast. It’s the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that’s huge. As for myself, I can’t function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper.
I didn’t know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don’t know their mothers had it; that’s the sad thing about depression. You know, you don’t function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.
People try to function in the real world – the analog world – while they’re texting in the digital world, and they run into the car in front of them. It doesn’t work to be in both.
I suppose I was always attracted to the producing function – trying to put things together and make things happen.
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well.
Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.
I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we just function on assumptions and secondhand knowledge.
I learned how to handle myself in the kitchen – where to stand and how to be out of people’s way and how to function like a machine.
Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.
There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Society can’t function without shared prosperity.
But which is the State’s essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.
Vests are for more than just function – they are fashion.
I really had to go back and remind myself that trusting makes society function on an individual level related to health and on a social level related to economic growth and development.
There’s design, and there’s art. Good design is total harmony. There’s no better designer than nature – if you look at a branch or a leaf, it’s perfect. It’s all function. Art is different. It’s about emotion. It’s about suffering and beauty – but mostly suffering!
What I argued in ‘The Great Divide’ is that societies can’t function without trust, both politically and economically.
Increasingly, we are embedding artificial intelligence into the core of our clients’ businesses across every function and process.
I spend my days in an office in my house. There are things to be done that I don’t have the skill set for. I’m able to learn on the fly, thank God, so I can function. But it’s difficult.
Remember, Obama was elected by a bigger margin than George W. Bush. He deserves to have his appointees, and he deserves to have votes on the issues, to have the government function, and to fight for the policies on which he was elected.
If we become aware of what’s happening before we act, behaviour becomes a function of choice rather than a result of an impulse or trigger. You begin to control your world more as opposed to the outside world controlling you.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
