Linear Quotes - Page 9

• 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.'

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Years, Mind

  "Cate Blanchett Talks Red Carpet Beauty and Dates With Destiny". Interview with Crystal Meers, www.elle.com. March 1, 2016.

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• I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.

  Neil Peart

  Atheist, Thinking, Agnostic

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• Gypsy [Rose Lee] wasn't a linear person, and she didn't live life in a linear fashion. She was relentlessly self-inventing, and moved backward as often as she moved forward.

  Karen Abbott

  Fashion, Live Life, Self

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• What I remove from my writing is linear context. It's not really important to me, because it doesn't give me chills to see, "you flip the latch and the lock opens and then you can open the top of the chest and inside the chest is this." That doesn't give me chills, to think in that vein. So I've always kind of avoided it.

  Doseone

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.

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• We [with Nimai Larson] listened to hardly any music except Hare Krishna music growing up and the occasional Garth Brooks that our babysitter would play for us. From a very early age, we looked at music as mantra based, very cyclical, and having no linear time.

  Taraka Larson

  Growing Up, Play, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.

  Robert Lanza

  Mean, Concept Of Time, Concepts

  "What Is It Like After You Die?" by Robert Lanza, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2011.

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• The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle

  Ellen MacArthur

  Business, Doe, Restoration

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• The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.

  Russell D. Moore

  Biblical, Progress, Fallen World

  Source: sojo.net

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• 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.

  Cy Twombly

  Wall, Writing, Graffiti

  "'I work in waves'". Interview With Nicholas Serota, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2008.

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

  Todd Haynes

  Narrative, Film, Parallels

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• 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.

  Justin Theroux

  Dream, Giving, Why Things Happen

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• My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, Different, Looks

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• Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

  Lynn Margulis

  Tree, Earth, Evolution

  Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1995). “What is Life?”, p.93, Univ of California Press

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• The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.

  Keith Devlin

  Education, Real, Science

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• Anything that exists on a time basis - that has a beginning, middle, and end, because you start watching it and then you're in the middle of watching it and then it ends - anything linear, for me, is narrative.

  Saschka Unseld

  Beginning Middle And End, Narrative, Ends

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Grief, Sadness, Flu

  "Meghan O'Rourke: The Long Good-Bye". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. April 26, 2011.

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• Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another. The writer gets no points just because what's inside the box bears some linear resemblance to "real life" -- he can put whatever he wants in there. What's important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit.

  George Saunders

  Art, Real, Black

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.78, A&C Black

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• Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Technology, Reality, Differences

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• My own movement of thought is not meant to be a straight point-to-point, linear line of march, but horizontal exploration from one area of interest to another. There is no ultimate destination - no finish line to cross, no final conclusion to be reached. It's the way I feel about dancing - you move around a lot, not to get somewhere, but to be somewhere in time.

  Robert Fulghum

  Moving, Dancing, Finals

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.26, Ivy Books

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• Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth about writing cannot answer it all. There are many truths. To do writing practice means to deal ultimately with your whole life.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Mean, Writing, Practice

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

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• You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.

  Joel Salatin

  Pigs, Goal, Culture

  "Chipotle Seeks New Model for Quality Fast Food" by John Bermansarah Rosenberg, abcnews.go.com. June 16, 2009.

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• That's the case with these exponential technologies; our brains, they struggle with it. We live in a world that is global and exponential, and our brains evolved in a world that was linear and local.

  Jason Silva

  Struggle, Technology, Brain

  Source: www.therobotsvoice.com

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• Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Mean, Simple

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• Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the trough that defines you.

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Life Is, Deals, Trough

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• 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!

  Jean Dieudonne

  People, Geometry, Coordinates

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