Top 1200 Linear Time Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

We [with Nimai Larson] listened to hardly any music except Hare Krishna music growing up and the occasional Garth Brooks that our babysitter would play for us. From a very early age, we looked at music as mantra based, very cyclical, and having no linear time.

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

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

I don't think in a linear form.

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

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

At 42,000' in approximately level flight, a third cylinder was turned on. Acceleration was rapid and speed increased to .98 Mach. The needle of the machmeter fluctuated at this reading momentarily, then passed off the scale. Assuming that the off-scale reading remained linear, it is estimated that 1.05 Mach was attained at this time.

The first issue that compelled me was a very strange split between India being highly development scientifically (we were the third biggest scientific manpower in the world then) and yet at the same time struggling with amazing poverty. The linear equation that says that modern science equals progress and the reduction of poverty did not apply to India. It wasn't working.

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

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

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

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

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.

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

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

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

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

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

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

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.

Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.

Anything that exists on a time basis - that has a beginning, middle, and end, because you start watching it and then you're in the middle of watching it and then it ends - anything linear, for me, is narrative.

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

Linear thinking is patriarchal.

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

Nothing about my life or my career has been linear.

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

Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the risk of linear TV becoming obsolete.

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

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

One of the autobiographies I really liked was Bob Dylan's. It was interesting because he didn't do it in a linear fashion.

My own movement of thought is not meant to be a straight point-to-point, linear line of march, but horizontal exploration from one area of interest to another. There is no ultimate destination - no finish line to cross, no final conclusion to be reached. It's the way I feel about dancing - you move around a lot, not to get somewhere, but to be somewhere in time.

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

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.

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

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

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

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

Climate change is a process that typically is non-linear. Even upon examination, it lives in comparison with other moments.

People who think achieving success is a linear A-to-Z process, a straight shot to the top, simply aren't in touch with reality.

No one else can match the environment we're creating for expanding the game experience to everyone. Our path is not linear, but dynamic.

I have a very linear mind.

Non-linear means it's hard to solve.

While American football is very structured and linear and static, where everyone lines up and there's a burst and it happens, soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game. You can move in any direction, at any time.

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

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

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

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

'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

A tobacco industry has been a fairly linear and predictable industry. You know what's going to happen every year. You know from time to time you are going to have a tax increase, you are going to have regulatory restriction, but, as it applies to everybody, I think we are doing very well. But now it's much more technology-driven. Competitors other than our traditional competitors can come in, whether legitimate or fly-by-night ones, and you have to anticipate all those things. The whole organization has to gear up to this new reality and these new competitive rules around it.

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

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

Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.

The concept of graphene came along in 1947, but nobody paid much attention to it. I was fascinated because it had a linear E versus K while everything else that people were working on at that time had a quadratic dispersion relationship. I wondered why this was and what was so special about it. That was my fascination.

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

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

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

The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.