Linear Quotes - Page 10

• Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical geometry. Out with them!

  Jean Dieudonne

  People, Geometry, Coordinates

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

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Life Is, Deals, Trough

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• You have visits, then you have disappearances. You enter, then you exit. You come, you go. It would be so great if you could just get to human enlightenment on a linear path.

  Eve Ensler

  Enlightenment, Would Be, Path

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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

  Aaron Tveit

  Fashion, Moving, Rights

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not a big believer in linear paths. I would always have these sort of five-year plans and think, 'Ok, I wouldn't mind to try to get here in five years.'

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Years, Mind

  "Cate Blanchett Talks Red Carpet Beauty and Dates With Destiny". Interview with Crystal Meers, www.elle.com. March 1, 2016.

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• 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.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Writing, Process, Found

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What I remove from my writing is linear context. It's not really important to me, because it doesn't give me chills to see, "you flip the latch and the lock opens and then you can open the top of the chest and inside the chest is this." That doesn't give me chills, to think in that vein. So I've always kind of avoided it.

  Doseone

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.

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• 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.

  Karen Abbott

  Fashion, Live Life, Self

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• 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.

  Taraka Larson

  Growing Up, Play, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Vandana Shiva

  Struggle, Issues, Progress

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• It's amazing how flexible the human mind is in terms of jumping into a backstory or an aside. Vonnegut is a great example - it's not a linear story by any means, but somehow your brain is keeping it moving in one direction even though the story is taking you in all these different directions.

  Noah Hawley

  Moving, Mean, One Direction

  "Noah Hawley on the Life Span of 'Fargo,' Ewan McGregor's Dual Role, and Adapting 'Cat's Cradle'". Interview with Gazelle Emami and Matt Zoller Seitz, www.vulture.com. June 23, 2016.

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• 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.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Thinking, Body, Information

  Richard Saul Wurman (1989). “Information Anxiety”, New York : Doubleday

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• There is a huge set of consequences that start stacking up as you approach the end-game. And
  even in terms of the ending itself, it continues to break down to
  some very large decisions. So it's not like a ****c game ending
  where everything is linear and you make a choice between a few things
  - it really does layer in many, many different choices, up to the
  final moments, where it's going to be different for everyone who
  plays it.

  Ray Muzyka

  Games, Play, Choices

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• I feel badly for them, not sorry, but badly, because I think they've been given poor breaks and difficult, not sufficient opportunity to be who they are and sort of put into that straitjacket with the tie, and all of the things that is really built like a straitjacket when you look at it, and tied up in a sort of a way where their purpose had to be slimmed down to just certain things, and function pared down to the linear, and it is very difficult for men.

  Maya Tiwari

  Sorry, Opportunity, Men

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Future, Past, Law

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• leaders seem to have a high tolerance for ambiguity. Recognizing that the brain does not work in a completely linear fashion, leaders demonstrate a comfort with the chaos of exploding ideas, many of them seemingly unrelated to the stimulus that caused them.

  Marlene Caroselli

  Leadership, Fashion, Ideas

  Marlene Caroselli, William J. Rothwell, Dale C. Brandenburg (1990). “The Language of leadership”, Center for Professional development

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• When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really gives pause to wonder what and who we are within a larger framework than linear adventures at the shopping mall and taxes.

  Vanna Bonta

  Adventure, Shopping, Giving

  "Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview". Interview with Laurel van der Linde, 2007.

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• 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.

  Winona LaDuke

  Environmental, World, Transformation

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• One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.

  Marc Forster

  War, Book, Ideas

  "Marc Forster: The Eye of the Swarm". Interview with Jamie Lincoln, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 20, 2013.

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• 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.

  Chuck Yeager

  Reading, Cylinders, Levels

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• I'd love to take a stab at writing videogames. There are a lot of storytelling opportunities that really aren't being taken advantage of in that field. I'd like to experiment with telling a truly non-linear story.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Taken, Writing, Opportunity

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• I have come to believe that energy medicine is a practice of healing that is dependent upon the energy of time. Whereas allopathic medicine uses linear time as a fundamental healing measure. Energy medicine needs to understand the dynamic of chiros time, that is the time without time.

  Caroline Myss

  Believe, Healing, Energy Medicine

  Source: www.shareguide.com

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• I like small things, I like small moments that are almost elliptical, that are not necessarily linear; they're natural things that happen in the world, but if you look at them from a slight angle there's more than meets the eye.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Eye, Looks

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• I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure. Sometimes, if the story is more linear, I write it from beginning to end.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.ftd.com

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• I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to show that, like life, thinking is not linear.

  Stanley Cavell

  Running, Philosophy, Thinking

  Source: www.bookforum.com

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