Vertical Quotes - Page 4

• With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers.

  Richard Ben-Veniste

  Respect, Decision, Information

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 20, 2004.

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• Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

  Le Corbusier

  New York, Cities, Manhattan

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• The heart sags. My footprints forget me.
  I don’t think anything will ever be the same.
  This is the edge of the cliff and you can’t move,
  can’t jump. Everything is vertical. With binoculars
  you can see where you’ll be in an hour. Raindrops
  collect on the lens. A fine mist. It hides us.
  It drifts into clocks. Gravity presses your hands.
  Some hurts never get said. Some get smuggled.

  Richard Jackson

  Hurt, Moving, Heart

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• The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We sweat in the cockpit, though much of the time we fly with the side windows open. The airplanes smell of hot oil and simmering aluminum, disinfectant, feces, leather, and puke ... the stewardesses, short-tempered and reeking of vomit, come forward as often as they can for what is a breath of comparatively fresh air.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Airplane, Sweat, Oil

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• You must develop a sense of what you can contribute that goes beyond 1 company or organization. A career path today will likely involve moving from organization to organization, creating a picture of rising circles, rather than a vertical ladder. In fact, a vertical rise within one organization will very likely move you away from your strongest areas of competence.

  Dan Miller

  Moving, Circles, Careers

  Dan Miller (2010). “48 Days to the Work You Love: An Interactive Study”, p.9, B&H Publishing Group

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• The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.

  Ella Maillart

  Running, Dying, Woven

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• The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.

  Richard Condon

  Comedy, Birth, Humans

  Richard Condon (1971). “The vertical smile”

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• I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

  Donald Barthelme

  Art, Thinking, Progress

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• Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with power, and vertical attention with longing for the Divine Feminine, for the Divine Masculine, for what the Sufis call 'wine.'

  Robert Bly

  Wine, Divine Feminine, Attention

  Source: www.utne.com

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• Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.

  Robert Bly

  Gratitude, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.utne.com

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• Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

  Elon Musk

  Years, Design, Mind

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• The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don’t need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to go there, to gather and think deep thoughts together.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Thinking, Axes

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• You use the vertical edge as the point of reference, instead of the horizontal edge. I have a picture of a beggar, where there's an arm coming into the frame from the side. And the arm is parallel to the horizontal edge and it makes it work. It's all games, you know. But it keeps it interesting to do, to play.

  Garry Winogrand

  Games, Play, Interesting

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing down a totally vertical drop. These things don't interest me in the slightest, but I get so caught up in the color or the texture of the sounds of something. That's so funny to me.

  Annie Lennox

  Color, Risk, Sound

  "Annie Lennox: Music + Passion + Freedom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm very interested in vertical space.I want the players to listen to their sound in such a way that they hear the complete sound they make before they make another one. So that means that they hear the tail of the sound. Because of the reverberation, there's always more to the sound than just the sound.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Mean, Player, Space

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate your way through these vertical structures of chords. You realize that everything's moving forward and it's all linear.

  David Sanborn

  Moving, Player, Way

  "Jazzin’ Around: Conversations With David Sanborn, Lee Ritenour and Kurt Elling". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated into the vertical slums of the late 20th century.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Ideas, Practice, Way

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

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• It is a time to get our alignment with our dreams and our destiny in order, so we can stand vertical in the season and the dispensations of the glory. For this glory is not like the previous glory - this glory demands an alignment of Heaven and earth so all that is prepared can be released and revealed.

  Chuck Pierce

  Dream, Destiny, Order

  "Chuck D. Pierce: 'Dream Again!' and 'Flooding in Rome!'". www.elijahlist.com. November 29, 2012.

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• It's what I like to call the horizontal Jesus. Vertical Jesus are the songs that say 'Lord I love you, Lord I praise you, Lord I thank you' and horizontal is 'I'm in a situation. This is the problem. How can I apply that now horizontally?' There are more problems in the world because he's not being applied horizontally.

  Kirk Franklin

  Song, Jesus, Love You

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• A suburban mall turned vertical.

  Paul Goldberger

  Malls

  "Marriott Marquis Hotel: An Edsel In Time Sq.?". www.nytimes.com. August 31, 1985.

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• Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.

  Frank Miller

  Jobs, Book, Reality

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• I think that this performance with the Thingamajigs is going to be an exploration of the acoustic space and particularly the vertical space, which we don't think about so much.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Thinking, Space, Acoustics

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Islands, Oasis, Offering

  "Interview with 'One Thousand Gifts' Author, Ann Voskamp". Interview with Frank Viola, churchleaders.com. February 11, 2013.

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• If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each; so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement.

  William Morris

  Wall, Nice, Judgement

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• The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.

  P. W. Botha

  Determination, Acceptance, Self

  Sunday Times, November 5, 2006.

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