#function

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#destroying #die #effectiveness #eventually #everything

In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#frustrated #function #mission #organization #people

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#apparent #defense #democracy #failures #forces

I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#both #consequences #discussion #function #genuine

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming (EP). By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#construction #each #functionality #goal #hierarchies

I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#before #better #functioning #getting #hope

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

There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that. ↗

— Rider Strong

#between #crew #functions #hate #hollywood

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#fertility #functions #important #management #most