Linear Quotes

Linear Quote of the day

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.

Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.

Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways

I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.

I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies.

Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

No one else can match the environment we're creating for expanding the game experience to everyone. Our path is not linear, but dynamic.

In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.

Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.

In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.

Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical geometry. Out with them!

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.

Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.

I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible.

The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

People who think achieving success is a linear A-to-Z process, a straight shot to the top, simply aren't in touch with reality.

A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.

Linear thinking is patriarchal.

Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid to really stretch.

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.

Life doesn't move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

I'm not a big believer in linear paths. I would always have these sort of five-year plans and think, 'Ok, I wouldn't mind to try to get here in five years.'

Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.

All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the vortex of time and space, when your consciousness is fixated in a body.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print

One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.

Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

Reincarnation is not necessarily linear. Sometimes people actually become more immersed in darkness or illusion than they were in previous lifetimes.

The linear, mechanistic view of the world which pervades orthodox economics is simply not capable of capturing the richness and complexity of the rhythms and fluctuations of developed economies.

Non-linear means it's hard to solve.

I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.

It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly.

Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it.

There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.

Could it be we stifle our children's genius by languaging them too quickly away from their hearts and into the straight and narrow confines of linear thinking?