Abstraction Quote by Jonathan Nolan Download Open image “Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.” — Jonathan Nolan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abstraction Absurdity Existentialism Matter Memento mori Moments Only thing that matters Things that matter Time
Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as time. Only the the substanance and quality of existence and the position it lyes in. — Devynald Morrison Copy Share Image
Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
You know, we certainly have a great budget on the show, but the expansions to world of the show really arise because, and this… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
“Time is theft, isn't that what they say? And time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
“If time and fear aren’t enough to dissuade people from their revenge, then there’s always authority, softly shaking its head and saying, 'We understand,… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
You're different. You're more perfect. Time is three things for most people, but for you, for us, just one. A singularity. One moment. This… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
You'd have a quality insurance department, where they're making sure there aren't any glitches or weird things, and that the guests have a great… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. Doctors treat… — June Goodfield Copy Share Image
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it. — Alfred Aho Copy Share Image
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes… — William James Copy Share Image
