#functions

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#functions #i #imagination #much #people

I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career. ↗

— Herman Cain

#become #burger #burger king #career #corporate

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#aspect #beautiful #being #consideration #family

In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#animal world #characterised #consequent #departments #differentiation

We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#actually #beast #bigger #bugs #everything

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#cell #energy #functions #living #maintenance

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#chosen #determine #elders #entitled #exercise

As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions. ↗

— Michael Behe

#carry #diverse #even #examples #functions