Linear Quotes - Page 3

• There are those who make music and movies in a linear way: They plan them, they have a script. Of course, you have to have a script sometimes, but that alone isn't enough.

  Ry Cooder

  Way, Scripts, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.

  Curtis Hanson

  Scripts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Charles Wheelan

  Successful, People, Interesting

  Charles Wheelan (2012). “10 1⁄2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear, or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?

  Marshall McLuhan

  Dad, Men, Media

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Past, Thinking, Ideas

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• I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Moving, Political

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• I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

  Frank Gehry

  Cities, Downtown, Motor

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• I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

  Carol Anshaw

  Book, Writing, Way

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• To some degree. I think that I've always been very much of a chordal person. The chords are the foundation of everything. Some of Yes' stuff is very linear, albeit complex, but it's single-line melodic stuff. So I kind of had to wear a different cap working with Yes. It's not so much chord-based.

  Geoff Downes

  Thinking, Foundation, Degrees

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• If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural unit taken from the earth itself offers another advantage, that of being perfectly analogous to all the real measurements that in ordinary usage are also made upon the earth, such as the distance between two places or the area of some tract, for example. It is far more natural in practice to refer geographical distances to a quadrant of a great circle than to the length of a pendulum.

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  Distance, Real, Taken

  "Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime". Book by Charles Coulston Gillispie, p. 240, January 10, 2009.

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Space, Doe

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

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Darkness, Sometimes

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• We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We see huge changes in the planet's hydrology already, the cycles of drought and flood both amped up because warm air holds more water vapor than cold. These things are happening with a one-degree increase and going to two degrees won't be twice as bad, the increase in damage won't be linear, it most certainly will be exponential. So it was precisely the wrong moment to elect Trump.

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ice, Sea

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Thinking, Documentaries, Hard

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Like Thornton Wilder said, time is not a river, but rather a landscape that you step in and out of. I've always found that true of creative work, and I've heard so many songwriters and writers in general say the same thing... When you're going into the realms of your self and trying to tap into the mystery of this creative source, linear time kind of falls away.

  Rosanne Cash

  Fall, Self, Rivers

  "Interview with Rosanne Cash on Coping, Writing and Savoring the Pleasures of Home". Interview with Kristi York Wooten, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Hallucinations, Modern, Fractals

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• To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines operating at one thousand horsepower - only photography is capable of that. What those who are attached to the painterly style regard as photography's defect, the mechanical reproduction of form - is just what makes it superior to all other means of expression.

  Albert Renger-Patzsch

  Photography, Mean, Technology

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• 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?

  Victor Villasenor

  Children, Heart, Thinking

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• Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.

  Tony Buzan

  Memories, Thinking, Imagination

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• There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are like this, white people are like this - and it really is hard to break through that. I never was doing it that way.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Race, Break Through, White

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

  Stanislav Grof

  Space, Ego, Usual

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.230, SUNY Press

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• Considering the inconceivable complexity of processes even in a simple cell, it is little short of a miracle that the simplest possible model - namely, a linear equation between two variables - actually applies in quite a general number of cases.

  Ludwig von Bertalanffy

  Simple, Two, Numbers

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• The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style story is of limited use. A non-linear narrative that allows for increased complexity and depth, and encourages both subject and reader to have greater involvement, will eventually emerge more fully from the digital environment. This, in a sense, is the more profound democratization of media.

  Fred Ritchin

  Top Down, Media, Profound

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• Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

  Beck

  Fashion, Years, Different

  Interview w ith Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I am a firm believer that you need a well-defined leadership role to deal with unexpected and non-linear side effects of people working together. You need someone to keep the threads untangled and forming a high-functioning web rather than a big snarl of a Gordian knot.

  Rands

  People, Working Together, Needs

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