#function

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved. ↗

— Herbert Read

#art #between #contradiction #democratic #does

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves. ↗

— Jay Roach

#addiction #am #control #dysfunctional #feeling

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. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#beliefs #cannot #capability #consider #function

The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#away #awful #body #body shop #company

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created. ↗

— Ida Pauline Rolf

#coin #created #enhance #exist #form

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#dysfunctional #generic #i #i think #know

Adding functionality is not just a matter of adding code. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#code #functionality #just #matter

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#because #business #cannot #deposits #failed

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#function #had #invented #mind #new

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document. ↗

— J. Reuben Clark

#constitutes #dependence #document #each #executive