Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don't keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television. — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
Life is messy; it's not linear, it's not logical, and the book reflects that. — Rose Quiello Copy Share Image
Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
The linear, mechanistic view of the world which pervades orthodox economics is simply not capable of capturing the richness and complexity of… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe. — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
I regard any behavior we indulge in as a game. The soul is beyond not only three-dimensional space but beyond the illusion… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The best possible solutions come only from a combination of a rational analysis based on the nature of things, and imaginative reintegration… — Kenichi Ohmae Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about 'Saw' is that you don't find out about things in sequential or linear order. One of… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
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… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
