#function

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future. ↗

— Joel A. Barker

#function #future #make #past #prophecy

People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#destined #dysfunctional #families #life #people

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#believe #certain #comes #dysfunction #everybody

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this! ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#did #freud #functions #know #knowledge

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#formative #function #i #mirror #psychoanalytic

My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena. ↗

— Andres Serrano

#functions #implications #social #work

I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#banks #capital #clear #everyone #function

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. ↗

— Jack London

#exist #function #i #live #man

I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers. ↗

— Mike Lookinland

#child #child actors #different #everyone #functions

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. ↗

— David McCullough

#better #forgets #function #individual #nation