Linear Quotes

137 quotes by 124 authors

Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return.… — Jeanette Winterson
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
Creativity is not linear, just like the earth is not flat....If you keep going long enough you will always get back to where you started… — Nikki Sixx
The day is refracted, and the next and the one after that, all of them broken up into a hundred juggled segments, each brilliant and… — Penelope Lively
I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television. — Reed Hastings
Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative. — Todd Haynes
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… — Justin Theroux
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 to be linear… — Robyn Hitchcock
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
The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem. — Keith Devlin
Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid… — Ray Kurzweil
But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities — David Mazzucchelli
No one else can match the environment we're creating for expanding the game experience to everyone. Our path is not linear, but dynamic. — Satoru Iwata
Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms… — Andrea diSessa
All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination… — Kenny Smith
I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've… — Reverend Malcolm Boyd
Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or… — Andy Hargreaves
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the… — Dana Spiotta
Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely,… — Sam Keen

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