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.
View quotes by Anthony RobbinsMinds are like parachutes. They only
function when they are open
View quotes by Sir James DewarThe test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to
function.
View quotes by F Scott FitzgeraldThe body is an instrument, the mind its
function, the witness and reward of its operation.
View quotes by George SantayanaEvery legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root
function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
View quotes by James BaldwinThe aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The
function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
View quotes by Susan SontagMorality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred
function of motherhood?
View quotes by Emma GoldmanThe
function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level
View quotes by Norman MailerThe
function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
View quotes by Ralph NaderForm follows
function.
View quotes by Louis SullivanToday is a memorable day and I am happier today than I was when I scored the triple century, because my university has organised a special
function to award a degree to a single student [on his degree]
View quotes by Virender SehwagThe
function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
View quotes by A J LieblingThe
function of posterity is to look after itself.
View quotes by Dylan ThomasThe
function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
View quotes by Soren KierkegaardI would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The
function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
View quotes by Jack LondonPlay is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special
function of its own in human experience.
View quotes by Johan HuizingaIt is the
function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.
View quotes by William PlomerThe
function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
View quotes by Lionel TrillingIn its
function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
View quotes by Michel FoucaultThe defining
function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
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