Linear Quotes

137 quotes by 124 authors

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… — Christopher Walken
I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect. — Michelle Williams
Bahaism gives you a pluralistic view, and a lot of aspects of Hinduism give you a moral framework with no accountability other than the karmic… — Ravi Zacharias
The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message… — Douglas Rushkoff
Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of… — Salman Rushdie
For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts… — Audre Lorde
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 following time as… — Jon Stewart
When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence. — John O'Donohue
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… — George Saunders
Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the… — Kate Morton
It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where… — James Lee Burke
The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body. — Jeanette Winterson
The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other… — Gail Caldwell
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 have eight functioning… — John Green
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big… — Steven Moffat
The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and plate-glass tower-block, picked… — Penelope Lively
Life's not linear at all. It happens in lighting flashes. So fast you don't see those lay-you-out cold moments coming at you until you're Wile… — Karen Marie Moning
You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction. — Michael Crichton
Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience. — Deepak Chopra
When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely… — Jay-Z

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