Best Discrete Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? ...What if humanity- that collective noun we so often employ- really is, at a higher level, a singular noun? What it what we perceive in three dimensions as seven billion individual human beings are really all just aspects of one giant being?”

“At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.”

Facts Light Equal Discovery Size Wave Insight Establishment Quantum Electricity Particles New Discoveries Discrete Electromagnetic Waves

Author:Johannes Stark

“In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.”

Problem Political Views Vision Solutions Bags Anticipation Visionaries Problems And Solutions Discrete

Author:Roberto Unger

“You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.”

Book Facts Order Shapes Judgment Length Historian Discrete

Author:Oliver Stone

“Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun... Every mom dreamed of her son coming home with a Chi Omega, a woman's woman.”

Home Fun Son Mom Ideals Partners Occasions Coming Home Polite Desirable Discrete All Occasions

Author:David Letterman

“We needed to take a discrete population to give people the confidence that if we can end veterans' homelessness , we can attack chronic homelessness, families and other populations like foster youth, who each have distinct needs.”

People Ifs Needs Giving Ends Youth Needed Population Veteran Homelessness Discrete

Author:John Carlos Frey

“With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and the course of their lives resembles a little brook, whereas with the genius it is more like a mighty river into which all the little rivulets flow from afar; that is to say, the universal comprehension of genius vibrates to no experience in which all the individual moments have not been gathered up and stored.”

Men Littles Moments Courses Individual United Genius Ordinary Flow Rivers Universal Originals Continuity Comprehension Brooks Multiplicity Afar Ordinary Man Vibrate Discrete

Book:Sex & Character

Source: Sex & Character

“The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist, and that those other worlds must contain experiences which have a meaning for our life also; and that although in the main their experiences and those of this world keep discrete, yet the two become continuous at certain points, and higher energies filter in.”

World Two Whole Certain Energy Consciousness Our Lives This World Higher Other Worlds Filters Discrete

Book:Writings, 1902-1910

Source: Writings, 1902-1910

“Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how to make sentences forever and you will know too when what you are writing doesn't make the grade because it has degenerated into a mere pile of discrete items.”

Knows Writing Done Practice Know How Forever Mere Sentences Lists Grades Items Explaining Discrete

Author:Stanley Fish

“Holocaust is very much a part of present discussion all over the place. There are little plaques everywhere you go around in different neighborhoods. "This person here was prosecuted." "This person was sent to this concentration camp." "A family of Jews lived here. They took over his business." Little, very discrete, very dignified plaques are everywhere.”

Littles Persons Different Jew Discussion Neighborhood Concentration Camps Holocaust Concentration Camp Discrete

Author:Bob Balaban

“Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is "continuous", and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating the "real" world, due to the innate discreteness of the digital computer.”

World Real Evil Computer Models Intuition Dues Digital Real World Conventional Innate Mislead Fooled Conventional Wisdom Necessary Evil Discrete

Author:Doron Zeilberger

“In live-action, writing, production and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between the writer, the director, the actors and the editor, and it makes the writing process a lot more collaborative and a lot less lonely.”

Writing Real Happens Action Actors Process Stage Directors Happenings Lonely Productions Dialogue Editors Editing Writing Process Animation Discrete

Author:Michael Arndt

“I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.”

People Believe Suffering Individual I Believe Integrity Salvation I Believe In Complaining Russia Oppression Lazy Individualism Peasants Hysterical Uneducated Hypocritical Discrete

Author:Anton Chekhov

“The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.”

May Play Order Language Sound Poor Music Musician Notes Neighbor Tone Strings Mastery Conventional Norm Violin Intervals Rendering Violinist Discrete

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary character of language covering this period. Words serve as fixatives for mental images. . . . Even at the end of the second year of life when word tags exist for a number of objects in the child's life, these words are discrete and do not yet bind together the parts of an experience or organize them in a way that can produce a coherent memory.”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.”

World Mean Book Individual Cutting Objects Destruction Bounds Boundaries Digital Translations Printed Format Discrete

Author:Tom Chatfield

“The books remind us that way down deep in our hearts, part of us knows that we are creatures of light and we cannot be touched or destroyed by anything made out of atoms or destroyed at all - that light is indestructible. And we may reflect that and express that in multiple trillions of discrete ways, but nevertheless, that indestructible sense of joyful capacity to express life and express love is always there.”

Knows Way Heart May Made Book Light Love Is Creatures Capacity Destroyed Touched Atoms Joyful Multiple Nevertheless Indestructible Discrete

Author:Richard Bach

“The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead. Statement of the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox in the relation of the discrete to the continuous.; perhaps the earliest example of the reductio ad absurdum method of proof.”

Firsts Science Race Example Amount Argument Relation Mathematics Method Proof Statements Paradox Ads Runners Pursued Achilles Tortoises Discrete

Author:Zeno of Elea

“Most clients expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service.”

Problem Process Effort Study Design Products Activity Behavior Research Evolve Users Clients Ongoing Responding Discrete Specifications Research Study Continually Learning

Author:Dan Brown

“I'd prefer to include sex scenes alongside the adventure scenes and everyday-life scenes, as if they were all part of the same thing. Which of course they are. Sex is not discrete from the rest of our existence.”

Ifs Courses Sex Existence Adventure Scene Everyday Everyday Life Discrete

Author:Alan Moore

“I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it.”

Important Today Jobs Bits Information Discrete

Author:David Foster Wallace

“Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are thing-ing. Thought does not report things, it distorts reality to create things, and as Bergson noted, "In so doing it allows what is the very essence of the real to escape." Thus to the extent we actually imagine a world of discrete and separate things, conceptions have become perceptions, and we have in this manner populated our universe with nothing but ghosts.”

Thinking World Doe Real Reality Universe Bits Imagine Perception Essence Ghost Reports Conception Discrete

Author:D.T. Suzuki

“There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language of philosophy).”

Kind Philosophy Language Natural Evidence Disorder Entity Diagnosis Bipolar Schizophrenia Bipolar Disorder Discrete

Author:Richard Bentall

“There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a discrete thought in the lyrics and to have songs that were about stuff - to try to make things more coherent.”

Trying Ideas Certain Song Language Stuff Vague Discrete

Author:David Longstreth

“At the time, in 1996, an electronic band signing with a major label was something new, at least in France. Daft Punk knew that this meant a marathon of promotion, TV appearances, etc. To protect themselves and to be discrete, they came up with the masks and, three years later, the robot helmets.”

Years Three Tvs Band Protect Majors Appearance Labels France Etc Mask Something New Three Years Punk Robots Marathon Promotion Signing Helmet Daft Discrete Daft Punk

Author:Pedro Winter

“If you think about even very common examples like, say, something that you would build, like a clock or a car or a group of people trying to accomplish something, it fails when its unity breaks down. So when it stops having a single form, which is functioning all together, then it sort of falls apart into discrete elements.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Together Form Fall Common Break Failing Groups Car Example Elements Unity Accomplish Clock Breaking Down Falling Apart Discrete

Author:Peter Adamson

“When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.”

Turns Next Bits Sound Animal Rooms Wave Smell Senses Clock Perceive Kitchen Chickens Nothingness Probability Dissolving Dishwashers Discrete Roasting

Author:Robert Lanza

“Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here has never been about blood or genes. It's simply about being at home on this discrete island and being aware of the privileges and responsibilities that brings.”

Home Responsibility Blood Citizens Privilege British Endless Boat Islands Belonging Genes Steam Port Discrete Dover Privilege And Responsibility

Author:Julian Baggini

“If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.”

Ifs Moderation Discrete

Author:Mark Twain

“Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing knowledge that we ourselves will someday die, and the love of snow are in reality not some sudden events; maybe they were always present. Maybe they never completely vanish, either.”

Moments Reality Remember Dies Fall Events Falling In Love Extraordinary Snow Someday Breakthrough Break Through Piercings Discrete Extraordinary Moments

Book:Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

Source: Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

“They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For although each man among them was discrete unto himself, conjoined they made a thing that had not been before and in that communal soul were wastes hardly reckonable more than those whited regions on old maps where monsters do live and where there is nothing other of the known world save conjectural winds.”

Men World Made Soul Purpose Order Known Blood Wind Waste Monsters Regions Maps Imperatives Discrete

Book:Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

“...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very small, discrete parts and assign each person to do only one of the many parts. In so doing, companies run the risk of taking away employees' sense of the big picture, purpose, and sense of completion.”

Mind Persons Bigs Running Purpose Business Company Break Technology Risk Modern Danger Projects Labor Employee Infrastructure Completion Big Picture Discrete

Author:Dan Ariely

“Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.”

Stories Individual Our Lives Discrete

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the discrete, of information, of bits.... Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than 'time.' Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence ... is a task for the future.”

World Time Bits Existence Information Concepts Ideals Tasks Connections Accounts Obstacles Physics Resistance Explaining Continuum Discrete

Author:John Archibald Wheeler

“Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.”

World Two Black White All Things Males Population Sexuality Divided Homosexuality Homosexual Goats Discrete Taxonomy

Author:Alfred Kinsey

“Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of it as part of an elaborate network of nervous tissue that reaches out to every single part of the body.”

Thinking Body Brain Nervous Reach Out Organs Tissues Lumps Parts Of The Body Discrete

Book:Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird

Source: Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird

“The Nazi Party was, in the early 1920s, but one among many nationalist and volkisch radical political groups. It was catapulted to prominence with the onset of economic recession in the late 1920s... The Nazis owed their spectacular to a combination of two discrete sets of factors: first, their distinctive organisation and strategy; and secondly, the wider socio-economic conditions which created climates of opinion and sets of grievances on which the Nazis could prey.”

“Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.”

“I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.”

“The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations. The little group of citizens on the slab of rock gathered together instinctively, almost defensively, and everyone who was outside the walls—even if you'd once been best friends—was now just that, outsiders.”

Ifs Littles Kids Together Individual Nations Plans Happened Groups Minutes Rocks Wall Citizens Islands Outsiders Discrete Slabs

Author:Meg Wolitzer

“Childhood obesity isn't some simple, discrete issue. There's no one cause we can pinpoint. There's no one program we can fund to make it go away. Rather, it's an issue that touches on every aspect of how we live and how we work.”

Causes Simple Issues Childhood Aspect Program Fund Going Away Obesity Discrete Child Obesity Childhood Obesity

Author:Michelle Obama

“Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is a discrete region, rather than the discrete notion that it is a fuzzy region.”

Seems Heard Notion Boundaries Regions Layers Biologist Fuzzy Discrete

Author:Bill Mollison

“The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete.”

World Mind Mathematics Mathematical Statistics Calculus Discrete

Author:David Mumford

“Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.”

Source: The University and the Public Interest

“Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as if it's alive. Realize everything has its own discrete existence outside your story. By doing this, you open to gifts and lessons that the world has to give you.”

Ifs World Giving Stories Realizing Pay Existence Attention Alive Lessons Conversation Weight Pay Attention Ease Discrete

Author:David Whyte

“No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.”

Life Edges Trauma Wounds Boundaries Discrete

Book:The Empathy Exams: Essays

Source: The Empathy Exams: Essays

“Life is a constant creation. It is a moment by moment, instant by instant creation. I don’t mean by this that it is a set of discrete creations, it is not like that. But nevertheless, this spontaneity is constantly arising. And it is within this that is our freedom.”

Mean Moments Life Is Creation Constant Instant Nevertheless Spontaneity Discrete

Author:Albert Low

“Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.”

Mind States Innocence State Of Mind Discrete

Author:John Shirley

“The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of this century....Only two other writers that this reviewer can think of have each created an entire, discrete and compelling world, a totally believable entity which one might wish to inhabit, and they are Joyce and Proust. It is not pretentious to place Patrick O'Brian in the first canon of literature.”

“In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you swim in your lane. That can be very effective for certain processes and in certain stable conditions. But it doesn't work in unstable conditions.”

Mind Certain Process Leadership Conditions Organization Function Swim Stable Lanes Unstable Discrete

Author:Daniel H. Pink

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