Vertical Quotes
Vertical Quote of the day
Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.
Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.
I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.
In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the vertical dimension of faith and the horizontal dimension of love for ones neighbor and political change.
I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies.
Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.
Dallas Mavericks want me as a bald-headed 5' 8" guard with a 95" vertical. Vince Carter respect my legs, ask Shawn Kemp.
Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.
There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.
The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.
A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary.
Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?
In the spiritual life, you must take one step forward each day in a vertical line, from the bottom up.
The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.
The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.
I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical.
The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.
There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.
Nest is one vertical implementation of a set of smart products for the home. But we will support other peoples smart products for the home.
Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.
Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.
With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers.
It is really important for us that people understand what the strategy is and that the real approach is to make everything social, not to build a vertical approach.
A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement and repose.
The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.
The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.
In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.
Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.
But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.
Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.
Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.
There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods.
A lot of the players I'm with, thank God, we're all still vertical. We've lost so many great players through the years, and we're still standing, as Elton John says.
Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.
Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.
my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in the vertical dimension of the timeless Now.
The vertical thinker says: 'I know what I am looking for.' The lateral thinker says: 'I am looking but I won't know what I am looking for until I have found it.'