Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
Reality and truth are not products of rational or linear thinking. They are derived from absolute wisdom as it manifests itself spontaneously,… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
You have visits, then you have disappearances. You enter, then you exit. You come, you go. It would be so great if… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
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… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
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… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
...it is quite obvious that the temperature change during the last 100 years or so includes significant natural changes, both the linear… — Syun-Ichi Akasofu Copy Share Image
Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it." "That's because you… — John Green Copy Share Image
To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines… — Albert Renger-Patzsch Copy Share Image
Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A human life has seasons much as the earth has seasons, each time with its own particular beauty and power. And gift.… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
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… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
Hopping around time in a non-linear storytelling fashion (on 'Lost') allows you to bring back characters who are dead and, in some… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
The creative process is different from the traditional production and work-flow process. It is not so linear. — John Kao Copy Share Image
To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into… — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't. — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you. — Michael Lee-Chin Copy Share Image
I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
It was a very circuitous path. It was not very linear - I floundered about for many years. — David Grann Copy Share Image
Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time. — Eleanor Coppola Copy Share Image
The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Have endless patterns and repetitions accompanying your thoughtlessness, as if to say let go of that other more linear story, with its… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Despite streaming, despite the rise of tablets and smartphones - all the implications which in theory would make linear TV less important… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
Linear programming can be viewed as part of a great revolutionary development which has given mankind the ability to state general goals… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
If future history is not to be just one damned thing after another in space, then what we really have to do… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
By definition, revolutions are not linear, one step at a time, event A leading to event B, and so on. Many causes… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
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