I like small things, I like small moments that are almost elliptical, that are not necessarily linear; they're natural things that happen… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
The day is refracted, and the next and the one after that, all of them broken up into a hundred juggled segments,… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love… — Julia Stiles 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
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 Copy Share Image
Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
There are certain things that I'll hear about and that I think will make a great book and I put it in… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Like Thornton Wilder said, time is not a river, but rather a landscape that you step in and out of. I've always… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible whole, a… — Frank Waters Copy Share Image
Building your "dream life" is filled with things that can feel like the opposite of a dream: Mistakes Delays Starting over Failure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no linear narrative - the structure is more like a series of variations on a theme (how identity is shaped by… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit… — Neil Gershenfeld Copy Share Image
It's amazing how flexible the human mind is in terms of jumping into a backstory or an aside. Vonnegut is a great… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere,… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I figured this out. I know what's wrong with what we've done in Iraq. We've been… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Anytime I've ever been involved in a non-linear story, you see it in a linear manner first, just to make sure it… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
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
Parkour is not just linear. There are moments that are intense and some that are lesser, so you have to move from… — David Belle Copy Share Image
...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can… — Umberto Eco 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
Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances… — Ken Robinson 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
Alix [MacKenzie] was a looser, more linear painter, dealing with amoebic forms, let's say, close to [Joan] Miró as opposed to my… — Warren MacKenzie 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
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,… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“Could it be we stifle our children's genius by languaging them too quickly away from their hearts and into the straight and… — Victor Villaseñor 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
Remember that progress is not linear either. Sometimes you make great progress for a while and then you slide back a little.… — Lee Labrada Copy Share Image
Well, the security business has been growing. I think security is one of those areas where it's to some degree not linear… — Sanjay Kumar Copy Share Image
“the 19th century saw the rise of what we came to call linear thought, a way of processing the world that was… — Alena Graedon Copy Share Image
The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking. — Charles Hugh Smith Copy Share Image
With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image