Top 387 Linear Quotes & Sayings

I'm not such a big fan of having a linear answer to things.

I have a very linear mind.

We know that the end of any conflict is always messy. It's never a linear path when you've been at war for almost 20 years. It's never a clean, straight linear path to the end.

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

I think what's going to happen with linear television is it's going to become more linear. It's going to become more about events and more about award shows, live sports - all those things that, really, you can't replicate.

Anytime I've ever been involved in a non-linear story, you see it in a linear manner first, just to make sure it makes sense, and then you chop it up and move it around.

Nothing about my life or my career has been linear.

The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject.

The belief in something bigger and supernatural is not the same thing as linear religion.

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways

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 backward as often as she moved forward.

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

Trajectories aren't linear. Life's just a roller coaster. If you're getting a chance to do cool stuff, and it's varied stuff, just enjoy it. I guess I'm a believer in the randomness of life rather than it being a linear trajectory or an arc, a consistent smooth arc, towards anything.

Chronology can be dangerous. You can get so linear that it becomes robotic for the reader.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.

Time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible whole, a great pool in which all events are eternally embodied and still have their meaningful flash of supernormal or extra - sensory perception, and glimpse of something that happened long ago in our linear time.

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time.

I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

Public figures talk and act as if environmental change will be linear and gradual. But the Earth's systems are highly complex, and complex systems do not respond to pressure in linear ways.

All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,000, 200,000, millions of years ago, when we were evolving as a human species, nothing changed. You know, the life of your great-grandparents, you, your kids - it was the same. And so we are local and linear thinkers.

Life is messy; it's not linear, it's not logical, and the book reflects that.

I think continuity is the devil. I think it's constricting and restrictive, I think it's alienating and off-putting, and it inflicts an artifact of linear time as we experience it on something that exists outside of linear time as well as keeps new readership away by keeping comics a matter of trivia and history rather than actual stories.

We do not think in a linear, sequential way, yet every body of information that is given to us is given to us in a linear manner ... we are taught to communicate in a way that is actually constricting our ability to think.

For me, change doesn't happen on a linear basis; it zig-zags back and forth.

The Lockean assumption that if we put our labor to it then it becomes our own is totally fallacious. We have to figure out how to leave things alone, and build an economic system that's not built on a linear model, but instead on a cyclical model, because that's the natural world - it's cyclical and not linear. That is going to take a lot of transformation.

I don't think in a linear form.

Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls.

Time is only linear for engineers and referees.

Non-linear means it's hard to solve.

It's true that language is in a sense linear but that is as obvious as perceptual space is three-dimensional.

I love things that are really linear and perfect and simple.

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film is the tyranny of the non-linear.

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 or has to be plotted.

The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time itself-can it be linear when all these snatches of other presents exist at once in your mind? A very elusive and tricky concept, time.

Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.

The discovery of heroes is rarely linear or obvious. They usually sneak up on you.

Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

It is very linear storytelling, and I think that's not so much the fashion. I was watching a new drama the other night which was extremely non-linear, where you flash back and flash forward in ways that certainly keeps you on your toes as the audience. There's not much of that courage with the storytelling in our Maigret film.

You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories.

You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.

I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.

Movies tend to be dislocated and non-linear in their process.

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

To me, we're living in a non-linear world... But the truth is we are linear creatures. Everything unfolds one after the next. And that's the thing we've become disconnected from.

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the trough that defines you.

Linear thinking is patriarchal.

One of the biggest challenges we have, as business owners and people, is that we think in linear terms.