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function
«Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.»
Author: An Wang
(Computer engineer, Inventor)
| About:
Common sense,
Success
| Keywords:
common sense, consistent, function
«Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Scientists
| Keywords:
biological, breasted, breasts, function, primaries, primary, scientists, stupid, The Scientists
«I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.»
Author: Jack London
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
another planet, ashes, atom, blaze, blazed, blazes, brilliant, burn, burned-out, burnt-out, burn out, days, drier, dries, driest, dry, drying, drying up, dry rot, dust, exist, function, glow, glowed, glows, magnificent, meteor, meteors, Of Man, our planet, out in, permanent, planet, prolong, prolonging, prolongs, rot, rots, rotted, rotting, sleepy, spark, sparking, stifled, stifles, stifling, superb, trying, waste
«The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but 'we' gets the credit.... This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.»
Author: Peter F. Drucker
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
creates, credit, credited, crediting, credits, effectively, enables, function, In Training, job, leaders, responsibility, sidestep, task, team, The Task, The Team, trained, train of thought
«It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
| About:
Magic
| Keywords:
as if by magic, familiar, familiar with, function, magic, perception, renew, scene, shakes, writer
«Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
critic, function, proper, tale, The Critic
«Perhaps it will seem to you that the sunshine is brighter and that everything has a new charm. At least, I believe this is always the result of a deep love, and it is a beautiful thing. And I believe people who think love prevents one from thinking clearly are wrong; for then one thinks very clearly and is more active than before. And love is something eternal--the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and it was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
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