If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.
A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.
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.
When a silhouette or shape is as beautiful as it is functional and relevant, that's true luxury.
I bought a pair of Birkenstocks today - let's be real. I wanted a chunky sandal that was functional. That should tell you where I am at as far as fashion.
There's Hobbes, who understood in the 1640s that the sovereign is not an appointee of God, or even a figure of superior virtue and wisdom, but just a functional device whose role is to keep people from hurting and killing each other.
Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.
I think a master craftsman is someone who is unpretentious. He has a physical object in front of him and, while he works with a higher aim, he doesn't let his personality get in the way of his art. It's simply about the task at hand and to make it as functional and necessary to the world as he can.
Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of functional design.
There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.
With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.
It is imperative to create luxury products that are also functional. My vision for fashion precludes frivolous, fantasy-only designs. That said, fashion does tend to move more quickly than interior design. One doesn't change their couch every season as one does their wardrobe.
When you're in a functional friendship or a functional relationship, and you feel like you've got something to share, you can share it with a friend, a lover or whatever.
Think of how much furniture you need. What's the best way to have it be functional in a great way? If it's in groups, define it.
Clothes are functional but that doesn't mean they're not a form of art. They're just another way to express creativity. It could be film, it could garment.
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.
We look at each one [project] and consider the context - what it is and what it can be - beyond the strictly functional concerns.
