Top 1200 Linear Time Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly.

My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come.

The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.

In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.

Reality and truth are not products of rational or linear thinking. They are derived from absolute wisdom as it manifests itself spontaneously, coming from the light of the Spirit.

The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.

At 'SNL' there's framed pictures of all the cast members, and it starts with Dan Aykroyd. It's linear. It just keeps going through all these people, and then you're at the end of it.

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 coming in.

I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.

That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.

The creative process is different from the traditional production and work-flow process. It is not so linear.

I have proved I have more than linear speed. Track guys are known for not being able to catch, for not having good hands.

Change is not a linear process; it's an all-encompassing process, and it's alive in different ways.

Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.

For a lot of children of immigrants, what happens is your parents want you to do something very linear that they can understand. I had an aptitude in sciences and never really questioned it.

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.

Make in India will not work if we take a conventional linear approach. It has to be a leapfrogging into the future, and India is ideally placed to do this.

You can't solve many of today's problems by straight linear thinking. It takes leaps of faith to sense the connections that are not necessarily obvious.

Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it.

Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs.

Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.

As a former college president, I am well aware that every university is a complicated ecosystem, not a linear widget factory.

I want to see the guitar in a non-linear sense that encompasses tones, arrangements, songwriting, audio production, and everything else - you have to do it all.

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

I've always been really attracted to playing with structure. To take the story of 'Fargo' and break it up in such a way that's it's not linear, per se.

'Two' is not written in the usual style of a novel. It's a straightforward, linear narrative of my times, as I observed partition, and is told through multiple characters.

The way we teach is a very linear kind of way.

You know, Italian-Hungarian - no matter how linear and cool I look on the outside, I have all that energy trying to find its way through life.

Reincarnation is not necessarily linear. Sometimes people actually become more immersed in darkness or illusion than they were in previous lifetimes.

Life doesn't move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.

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.

But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities

We're always being told that there's a linear progress regarding women. It only gets better, especially for women artists. It's not true.

It was a very circuitous path. It was not very linear - I floundered about for many years.

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

I'm basically an optimist because I do think there's this historical modernisation process, and by and large it's been very beneficial to people. But there are blips. History doesn't proceed in a linear way.

It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.

Parkour is not just linear. There are moments that are intense and some that are lesser, so you have to move from one to another, and that becomes the musicality of Parkour.

The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.

The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway.

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

I regard any behavior we indulge in as a game. The soul is beyond not only three-dimensional space but beyond the illusion of linear time. Any method we use to move through three- or four- dimensional space is a game. It doesn't matter how serious we take it, or how serious its consequences are.

The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and religion, or the Orient with its cyclical time and Christianity with its linear history. And what is modem about the modem mind, one may ask, if Hegel, Comte, or Marx, in order to create an image of history that will support their ideological imperialism, still use the same techniques for distorting the reality of history as their Sumerian predecessors?

The linear, mechanistic view of the world which pervades orthodox economics is simply not capable of capturing the richness and complexity of the rhythms and fluctuations of developed economies.

Linear narrative is an artfully-directed telling of a story, where the lighting and the sound is all for a very clear purpose. You're not just wandering around in the world.

Our myopic focus on producing and consuming as cheaply as possible has created a linear economy in which objects are briefly used and then discarded as waste.

I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.

Could it be we stifle our children's genius by languaging them too quickly away from their hearts and into the straight and narrow confines of linear thinking?

A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always wrong.

I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible.

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

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 to really stretch.

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 information.

The world of the small business owner is all about moving multiple items forward at once, and it's a fool's errand to believe one person can do it all when the shift comes from linear to parallel.