Spectrum Quotes

• Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

  Temple Grandin

  Art, People, Giving

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• The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

  Stephen Hawking

  Past, Possibility, Future Possibilities

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• A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

  John Avlon

  Wings, People, Political

  "Six questions for John Avlon". Interview with John Avlon, www.economist.com. May 16, 2010.

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• I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Believe, Science

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• When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love Is, Space, Glasses

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.16, Vintage

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• A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Motivational, Color, Organization

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Apr 29, 2013

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• I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

  Jim Harrison

  Disappointment, Giving, Risk

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

  Jim Harrison

  Love, Disappointment, Tired

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• My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Light, Color, Goal

  "Olafur Eliasson on Turning Light into Color". Interview with Elisa Wouk Almino, hyperallergic.com. January 14, 2015.

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• We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few centuries—is that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we are seeing less than 1/10 Billionth of the information that's riding on there. So we call that visible light. But everything else passing through our bodies is completely invisible to us. Even though we accept the reality that's presented to us, we're really only seeing a little window of what's happening.

  David Eagleman

  Eye, Reality, Thinking

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• Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

  Iris Murdoch

  Literature, Moral, Truth Is

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• Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.

  Alan Lightman

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.literarytraveler.com

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• I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Play, Annoying

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• Magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses. Humans have cut themselves off from their senses. Now they see only a tiny portion of the visible spectrum, hear only the loudest of sounds, their sense of smell is shockingly poor and they can only distinguish the sweetest and sourest of tastes.

  Michael Scott

  Cutting, Smell, Magic

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.142, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

  Noam Chomsky

  Smart, Passivity Is, People

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.234, Soft Skull Press

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• Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

  Taylor Swift

  Falling In Love, Passion, Frustration

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  IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

  Emma Watson

  Equality, Two, Feminist

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• In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

  William Boyd

  Art, Two, Rocks

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• One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.

  Luke Ford

  Kids, Autism, Growing

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• I am very grateful that I am in touch with so many different church groups. I am always very moved by the fact that so many people - practically over the spectrum of the Christian world - are responding to my writing.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Grateful, Writing

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• Mathematicians are beginning to view order and chaos as two distinct manifestations of an underlying determinism. And neither state exists in isolation. The typical system can exist in a variety of states, some ordered, some chaotic. Instead of two opposed polarities, there is a continuous spectrum. As harmony and discord combine in musical beauty, so order and chaos combine in mathematical [and physical] beauty.

  Ian Stewart

  Beauty, Art, Views

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• To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Adventure

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• If you use language that divides people and makes people who agree with you really stoked and people who disagree with you disengaged then you're preaching to a choir, and you've lost any kind of relativity across the spectrum. So it's important to be subtle and understand that there's a lot more you can learn.

  Dan Mangan

  People, Important, Use

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• I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up a spectrum of feeling. You're now allowed to approach the music from an audio visual perspective.

  Adrian Younge

  Thinking, Perspective, Feelings

  "Above the Line: An Interview with Adrian Younge". AllHipHop.com Interview, allhiphop.com. July 10, 2015.

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• We have seen an unprecedented gathering of the leaders of black America coming together to speak with one voice, ... The whole spectrum of black thought was represented on this stage ... .
  This tells us that a new day is dawning in America.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Voice, America, New Day

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