#function

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#aware #been #culture #function #high

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

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#architecture #bureaucrats #complicated #criticism #functions

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

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#being #definitely #difficult #dyslexia #fully

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation. ↗

— Robert Zemeckis

#function #human #human beings #isolation #well

For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#creative #functioning #i #next #part

Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#between #capable #children #doing #even

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#after #body #consciousness #could #death

Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#foods #function #healthful #improve #our