#function

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#function #intellect #life #may #means

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids? ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#children #education #expect #functioning #god

I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor. ↗

— Aida Turturro

#bad girl #dysfunctional #girl #her #i

The most important consideration I have is I want my legislative shop to have a functional office suite that is conducive to getting their work accomplished. ↗

— Steve Womack

#conducive #consideration #functional #getting #i

You see people on TV flying in to places just to pick up a baby, or brush some flies away. That's great if they can bring that issue to public attention. But that's not what I wanted to do. I was interested in committing to something that I could function in whether I was Debra Winger or not. Because nobody might care about that next week. ↗

— Debra Winger

#attention #away #baby #because #bring

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction. ↗

— James Young

#band #behind #dysfunction #dysfunctional #fun

In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation. ↗

— James Young

#both #current #family #functional #group

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood? ↗

— Emma Goldman

#anything #criminal #function #glorified #indeed

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#direct #familiar #feelings #function #i

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire. ↗

— Norman Granz

#function #genuine #producer #repertoire