Quotes about Linear

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness. Votes: 4

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television. Votes: 4

I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect. Votes: 4

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality. Votes: 4

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking. Votes: 4

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it. Votes: 4

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. Votes: 4

Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me. Votes: 4

Linear thinking is patriarchal. Votes: 3

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

All of audio as we know it is an attempt to be more and more perfectly linear. Linearity means higher quality sound. Hypersonic sound is exactly the opposite: it's 100 percent based on non-linearity. Votes: 3

Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I figured this out. I know what's wrong with what we've done in Iraq. We've been following time as it goes forward. What a classic mistake. Linear time is so pre-9-11. Votes: 3

Linear programming can be viewed as part of a great revolutionary development which has given mankind the ability to state general goals and to lay out a path of detailed decisions to take in order to "best" achieve its goals when faced with practical situations of great complexity. Votes: 3

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself. Votes: 2

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. Votes: 2

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot. Votes: 2

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you. Votes: 2

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. Votes: 2

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. Votes: 2

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical. Votes: 2

Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. Votes: 2

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't. Votes: 2

Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place. Votes: 2

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence. Votes: 2

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The way that you remember your life, it's never linear. You have flashes of different moments of your life, and the flashes aren't equal; they have different styles. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted. Votes: 2

Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it. Votes: 2

It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face. Votes: 2

Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion. Votes: 2

As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place. Votes: 2

There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way. Votes: 2

SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people. Votes: 2

I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd. Votes: 2

Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love spending time with them. I think that ranking what you value is a sort of western and linear way of looking at things. Votes: 2

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative. Votes: 2

I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was. Votes: 2

The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief. Votes: 2

The concept of graphene came along in 1947, but nobody paid much attention to it. I was fascinated because it had a linear E versus K while everything else that people were working on at that time had a quadratic dispersion relationship. I wondered why this was and what was so special about it. That was my fascination. Votes: 2

I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable. I do have a linear style, but other than that, there's a lot of abstract. I just go off on what I'm thinking. I'm not that topical. I like to talk about me and my experiences. Votes: 2

We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading. Votes: 2

I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins. Votes: 2

Internet TV is replacing linear TV. Votes: 0

Non-linear means it's hard to solve. Votes: 0

Time is only linear for engineers and referees. Votes: 0

Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature. Votes: 0

Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline. Votes: 0

Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways Votes: 0

The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular. Votes: 0

I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks. Votes: 0

Nothing about my life or my career has been linear. Votes: 0

You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely. Votes: 0

The way we teach is a very linear kind of way. Votes: 0

Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective. Votes: 0

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence. Votes: 0

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative. Votes: 0

Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly. Votes: 0

The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem. Votes: 0

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film. Votes: 0

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career. Votes: 0

Life is messy; it's not linear, it's not logical, and the book reflects that. Votes: 0

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns. Votes: 0

Life doesn't move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back. Votes: 0

Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do. Votes: 0

It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time. Votes: 0

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry. Votes: 0

Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature. Votes: 0

The creative process is different from the traditional production and work-flow process. It is not so linear. Votes: 0

To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself. Votes: 0

A timeline is a linear representation of cause and effect, changing one event alters all that follow. Votes: 0

Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other. Votes: 0

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking. Votes: 0

Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe. Votes: 0

Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience. Votes: 0

The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really. Votes: 0

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the trough that defines you. Votes: 0

Climate change is a process that typically is non-linear. Even upon examination, it lives in comparison with other moments. Votes: 0

I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies. Votes: 0

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel. Votes: 0

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking." Votes: 0

Reincarnation is not necessarily linear. Sometimes people actually become more immersed in darkness or illusion than they were in previous lifetimes. Votes: 0

Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time. Votes: 0

I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all. Votes: 0

But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities Votes: 0

The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the risk of linear TV becoming obsolete. Votes: 0

The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking. Votes: 0

No one else can match the environment we're creating for expanding the game experience to everyone. Our path is not linear, but dynamic. Votes: 0

A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit. Votes: 0

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth. Votes: 0

A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always wrong. Votes: 0

I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies. Votes: 0

Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses. I don't necessarily believe in linear time. Everything happens all at once forever. Votes: 0

The risks facing hedge funds are non-linear and more complex than those facing traditional asset classessuch risks are currently not widely appreciated or well-understood Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses. I don't necessarily believe in linear time. Everything happens all at once forever. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

This has suggested to some that the very structure of human thought is oppositional-that is to say, rational and associative, rather than linear and categorical. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters. Votes: 0

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen. Votes: 0

Well, the security business has been growing. I think security is one of those areas where it's to some degree not linear but maybe exponential growth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Remember that progress is not linear either. Sometimes you make great progress for a while and then you slide back a little. That's OK. Don't give up. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured. Votes: 0

Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film is the tyranny of the non-linear. Votes: 0

A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision. Votes: 0

We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time, space, matter, and linear causality. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The creative process, like a spiritual journey, is intuitive, non-linear, and experiential. It points us toward our essential nature, which is a reflection of the boundless creativity of the universe. Votes: 0

Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough. Votes: 0

If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness. Votes: 0

If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to. Votes: 0

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and so we don't realize how fast the future is coming. Votes: 0

The road to the heart is not a long, linear path, but this turning. There is no race or competition, just me and God going deeper, carving a canyon to the soul. Votes: 0

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.' Votes: 0

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff. Votes: 0

We [he and Halmos] share a philosophy about linear algebra: we think basis-free, we write basis-free , but when the chips are down we close the office door and compute with matrices like fury. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are those who make music and movies in a linear way: They plan them, they have a script. Of course, you have to have a script sometimes, but that alone isn't enough. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Anytime I've ever been involved in a non-linear story, you see it in a linear manner first, just to make sure it makes sense, and then you chop it up and move it around. Votes: 0

All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the vortex of time and space, when your consciousness is fixated in a body. Votes: 0

The best possible solutions come only from a combination of a rational analysis based on the nature of things, and imaginative reintegration of all the different items into a new pattern, using non-linear brain power Votes: 0