#function

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#characteristics #child #classmates #function #his

I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#come #design #flash #function #functional

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#bring #function #imagination #meet #myth

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#contribute #fail #far #freedom #function

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#although #art #arts #away #better

I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people. ↗

— Phil Crane

#first #function #government #guarantee #hand

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#capital #come #doing #dysfunctional #elected

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#bear #broader #brought #companies #consequences

In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#companies #company #contribution #expressed #function

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#balance #check #cozy #democracy #essential