Linear Quotes - Page 10

• The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.

  David Foster Wallace

  Thinking, Way, Loops

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.37, Melville House

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• A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.

  Renata Adler

  Strategy, Conversation, Wit

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.82, New York Review of Books

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• Linear thinking is patriarchal.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Thinking

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• The best possible solutions come only from a combination of a rational analysis based on the nature of things, and imaginative reintegration of all the different items into a new pattern, using non-linear brain power

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Brain, Different, Analysis

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• I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded. I ran into `out-to-lunch' free jazz, and the notion that groove was old-fashioned. All around the United States, I could see jazz becoming linear, a horn-player's world. It made me realize that we were not jazz musicians; we were territory musicians in love with all forms of African-American music. All of the musicians I loved were territory musicians, deeply into blues and gospel as well as jazz.

  Joe Sample

  New York, Moving, Player

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• Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical process of writing itself keeps the mind active and focused on the job at hand. Usually I write in about 5 drafts, but that simply means there are 5 definite times when I go in a linear fashion from the beginning to the end of the book.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fashion, Jobs, Book

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Vladimir Arnold

  Mathematics, Mechanic, Topology

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• With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.

  Lucy Walker

  Real, Mean, Technology

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• every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

  Robin Morgan

  Tragedy, Actors, Elements

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.377, Open Road Media

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• By definition, revolutions are not linear, one step at a time, event A leading to event B, and so on. Many causes operate on each other at once. Revolutions shift into place suddenly, like the pattern in a kaleidoscope. They do not so much proceed as crystallize.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Events, Patterns, Definitions

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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

  Shirley MacLaine

  Friendship, Moving, Teaching

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• If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.

  Joel Salatin

  Appreciate, Giving, Soul

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• I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to show that, like life, thinking is not linear.

  Stanley Cavell

  Running, Philosophy, Thinking

  Source: www.bookforum.com

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• I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure. Sometimes, if the story is more linear, I write it from beginning to end.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.ftd.com

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• I like small things, I like small moments that are almost elliptical, that are not necessarily linear; they're natural things that happen in the world, but if you look at them from a slight angle there's more than meets the eye.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Eye, Looks

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• Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Scales, Spatial, Large Scale

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick: Revised Edition". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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• I have come to believe that energy medicine is a practice of healing that is dependent upon the energy of time. Whereas allopathic medicine uses linear time as a fundamental healing measure. Energy medicine needs to understand the dynamic of chiros time, that is the time without time.

  Caroline Myss

  Believe, Healing, Energy Medicine

  Source: www.shareguide.com

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• I'd love to take a stab at writing videogames. There are a lot of storytelling opportunities that really aren't being taken advantage of in that field. I'd like to experiment with telling a truly non-linear story.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Taken, Writing, Opportunity

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• At 42,000' in approximately level flight, a third cylinder was turned on. Acceleration was rapid and speed increased to .98 Mach. The needle of the machmeter fluctuated at this reading momentarily, then passed off the scale. Assuming that the off-scale reading remained linear, it is estimated that 1.05 Mach was attained at this time.

  Chuck Yeager

  Reading, Cylinders, Levels

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• 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.

  Marc Forster

  War, Book, Ideas

  "Marc Forster: The Eye of the Swarm". Interview with Jamie Lincoln, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 20, 2013.

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• The Lockean assumption that if we put our labor to it then it becomes our own is totally fallacious. We have to figure out how to leave things alone, and build an economic system that's not built on a linear model, but instead on a cyclical model, because that's the natural world - it's cyclical and not linear. That is going to take a lot of transformation.

  Winona LaDuke

  Environmental, World, Transformation

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• When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really gives pause to wonder what and who we are within a larger framework than linear adventures at the shopping mall and taxes.

  Vanna Bonta

  Adventure, Shopping, Giving

  "Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview". Interview with Laurel van der Linde, 2007.

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• leaders seem to have a high tolerance for ambiguity. Recognizing that the brain does not work in a completely linear fashion, leaders demonstrate a comfort with the chaos of exploding ideas, many of them seemingly unrelated to the stimulus that caused them.

  Marlene Caroselli

  Leadership, Fashion, Ideas

  Marlene Caroselli, William J. Rothwell, Dale C. Brandenburg (1990). “The Language of leadership”, Center for Professional development

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• I think that people talk about radical life extensions as if it is just one linear kind of journey, when actually what's going to happen is we're going to radically expand our lives billions and billions of times in every way, in every dimension and so I'm looking forward to things I can't even imagine yet.

  Barry Ptolemy

  Journey, Thinking, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Future, Past, Law

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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