Top 387 Linear Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
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 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.
I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.
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.
Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.
Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.
Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.
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.
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.
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.
Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience.
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.
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.
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.
No one else can match the environment we're creating for expanding the game experience to everyone. Our path is not linear, but dynamic.
A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always wrong.
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.
I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
My passion is to understand the non-linear dynamics of warped space-time, and the ideal venue for this is black-hole collisions.
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.
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.
Climate change is a process that typically is non-linear. Even upon examination, it lives in comparison with other moments.
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.
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.
I have proved I have more than linear speed. Track guys are known for not being able to catch, for not having good hands.
Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the risk of linear TV becoming obsolete.
Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.
To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.
A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.
Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.
I think this is how life is. It's not a linear march through time; you revolve around the same old things as you age and acquire experiences.
The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly.
The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.
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.
'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.
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.
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.
It was a very circuitous path. It was not very linear - I floundered about for many years.
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.
I have a hard time making a linear-idea song, because that's not the way my thoughts work.
'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.
The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.
As a former college president, I am well aware that every university is a complicated ecosystem, not a linear widget factory.
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.
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.
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.
But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities
Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.
If we were writing what the fans wanted to see, Betty and Jughead would be the most linear, monotonous narrative of all time.
Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.
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.
One of the autobiographies I really liked was Bob Dylan's. It was interesting because he didn't do it in a linear fashion.
Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.
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?
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.
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.
