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• ...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.

  Alan Watts

  Together, World, Letters

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• I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands that were rising up out of the oceans. Then I would take time off and read, sometimes for months, then I would write more of what I knew, and saw what I could see, as much as the story as I could see. And then at a certain point I had to write out what I thought was the plot because it was so hard to keep it all together in my head. And then I started to write in a more linear way.

  Rebecca Miller

  Ocean, Writing, Ignorance

  "Author Rebecca Miller Talks Male Perspective, Piecing Together a Novel, and Fly Sex in Jacob's Folly". Interview with Kayla Tanenbaum, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2013.

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• The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.

  Don DeLillo

  Book, Character, Hands

  "Masses, Power and the Elegance of Sentences". Interview with Brigitte Desalm, perival.com. October 27, 1992.

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• Climate change is a process that typically is non-linear. Even upon examination, it lives in comparison with other moments.

  Sebastian Copeland

  Climate, Examination, Moments

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The next big accelerator might be the ILC in Japan, a linear collider which might be able to probe the boundaries of string theory. So we physicists have to learn how to engage the public so that taxpayers money is used to explore the nature of the universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Japan, Might, Able

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• While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about the decreasing cogency of public debate, computers dismiss linear argument and promote fast, shallow romps across the information landscape. While we worry about basic skills, we allow into the classroom software that will do a student's arithmetic or correct his spelling.

  David Gelernter

  Skills, Worry, Video

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• "Hello" is always presented as a linear narrative, a singular chain, sometimes in a loop. But the reality of making it is that connections are naturally sprawling all over the place, so I am free to edit any way I want.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Reality, Connections, Want

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn't have a clue about anything. What they were talking about in school, couldn't play sports, couldn't learn, and I was bottom of the class.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Sports, School, Boys

  "Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. January 27, 2011.

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• History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images from our past that sometimes were not even aware of, and they sort of shape who we are.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Fashion, Memories, Past

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• I realized that every second that I'm alive, the world cares less about me. It's just a very linear, downward progression. And it sounds cynical because you guys are young and you're full with life. I want you to understand - this is it. You have nothing to look forward to because you're peaking. If you're not having fun now, kill yourself. I don't mean that in a bad way, just - it's not worth it to go forward.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Fun, Mean, Cynical

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• I was never very good at math and science, to be honest, so it's fun to play a character that is so scientific and mathematical, and whose brain functions at such a high pace. The biggest difference is that Maura is very linear in her thinking and very logical. I'm not quite like that. I'm much more laid back and not quite so type A. That's the big difference.

  Sasha Alexander

  Fun, Character, Math

  Source: collider.com

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• It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face.

  Henry Rollins

  Play, Guy, Friendly

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

  Alvin Toffler

  Sideways, Backwards

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• As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate your way through these vertical structures of chords. You realize that everything's moving forward and it's all linear.

  David Sanborn

  Moving, Player, Way

  "Jazzin’ Around: Conversations With David Sanborn, Lee Ritenour and Kurt Elling". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Want, Theme, Improvisation

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• Hopping around time in a non-linear storytelling fashion (on 'Lost') allows you to bring back characters who are dead and, in some cases, buried. Now that time travel is the story itself, it opens up even more doors. So when an actor reads that they're getting killed off on the show, they're basically, like, 'Okay, but should I still bother to show up next week?'

  Damon Lindelof

  Fashion, Character, Doors

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• While American football is very structured and linear and static, where everyone lines up and there's a burst and it happens, soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game. You can move in any direction, at any time.

  Gabriel Luna

  Soccer, Football, Moving

  Source: collider.com

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• A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always wrong.

  Pamela McCorduck

  Technology, Propaganda, Persuasive

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• Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us

  Ken Robinson

  Helping, Talent, Life Is

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• All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don't keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic is the glue that holds it together, that tension must be maintained from one sentence to the next and from one paragraph to the next and from one section to the next, and that narrative - good old-fashioned storytelling - is what should pull your readers along without their noticing the tug.

  William Zinsser

  Fall, Writing, Together

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• 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.

  Gary Hamel

  Opportunity, Innovation, Strategy

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• 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.

  Donald Trump

  Reality, Thinking, People

  Donald Trump (2004). “Trump: How to get rich ; and; Think like a billionaire”

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• You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.

  Annie Leonard

  Running, Planets, Finite

  "Overconsumption is costing us the earth and human happiness" by Celia Cole, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2010.

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• Life is messy; it's not linear, it's not logical, and the book reflects that.

  Rose Quiello

  Book, Life Is, Logical

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• I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

  Hilary Mantel

  Writing, Novel, Rational

  "Hilary Mantel: 'If I'm suffering, I can make that pay'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2012.

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