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“The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style story is of limited use. A non-linear narrative that allows for increased complexity and depth, and encourages both subject and reader to have greater involvement, will eventually emerge more fully from the digital environment. This, in a sense, is the more profound democratization of media.”

“Considering the inconceivable complexity of processes even in a simple cell, it is little short of a miracle that the simplest possible model - namely, a linear equation between two variables - actually applies in quite a general number of cases.”

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Author:Ludwig von Bertalanffy

“It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time.”

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Book:Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research

Source: Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research

“There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are like this, white people are like this - and it really is hard to break through that. I never was doing it that way.”

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Author:W. Kamau Bell

“"Hello" is always presented as a linear narrative, a singular chain, sometimes in a loop. But the reality of making it is that connections are naturally sprawling all over the place, so I am free to edit any way I want.”

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Author:Aleksandra Mir

“My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn't have a clue about anything. What they were talking about in school, couldn't play sports, couldn't learn, and I was bottom of the class.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.”

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Author:Annie Leonard

“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.”

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Author:Gary Hamel

“All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don't keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic is the glue that holds it together, that tension must be maintained from one sentence to the next and from one paragraph to the next and from one section to the next, and that narrative - good old-fashioned storytelling - is what should pull your readers along without their noticing the tug.”

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Author:William Zinsser

“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”

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Author:Ken Robinson

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

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Author:Pamela McCorduck

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

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Author:Charles Hugh Smith

“While American football is very structured and linear and static, where everyone lines up and there's a burst and it happens, soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game. You can move in any direction, at any time.”

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Author:Gabriel Luna

“Hopping around time in a non-linear storytelling fashion (on 'Lost') allows you to bring back characters who are dead and, in some cases, buried. Now that time travel is the story itself, it opens up even more doors. So when an actor reads that they're getting killed off on the show, they're basically, like, 'Okay, but should I still bother to show up next week?'”

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Author:Damon Lindelof

“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.”

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Author:Richard Holbrooke

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

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Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“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.”

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Author:David Sanborn

“Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways”

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Author:Alvin Toffler

“I was never very good at math and science, to be honest, so it's fun to play a character that is so scientific and mathematical, and whose brain functions at such a high pace. The biggest difference is that Maura is very linear in her thinking and very logical. I'm not quite like that. I'm much more laid back and not quite so type A. That's the big difference.”

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Author:Sasha Alexander

“I realized that every second that I'm alive, the world cares less about me. It's just a very linear, downward progression. And it sounds cynical because you guys are young and you're full with life. I want you to understand - this is it. You have nothing to look forward to because you're peaking. If you're not having fun now, kill yourself. I don't mean that in a bad way, just - it's not worth it to go forward.”

“To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines operating at one thousand horsepower - only photography is capable of that. What those who are attached to the painterly style regard as photography's defect, the mechanical reproduction of form - is just what makes it superior to all other means of expression.”

“Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.”

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Author:Daniel Pinchbeck

“Like Thornton Wilder said, time is not a river, but rather a landscape that you step in and out of. I've always found that true of creative work, and I've heard so many songwriters and writers in general say the same thing... When you're going into the realms of your self and trying to tap into the mystery of this creative source, linear time kind of falls away.”

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Author:Rosanne Cash

“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.”

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Book:Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“The problem with being linear minded is that you would ask this at all! You assume that you must do one or the other. Plan or not plan. How about planning to walk in a certain direction until the "now" offers you another plan?”

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Author:Lee Carroll

“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.”

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Author:Eve Ensler

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Brian Lindstrom

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

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Author:Brian Lindstrom

“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.”

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Author:Paul Greengrass

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

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Author:Aaron Tveit

“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.'”

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Author:Cate Blanchett

“There's no linear narrative - the structure is more like a series of variations on a theme (how identity is shaped by language), with the past constantly bleeding into the present, dreams into reality. And the language, while incredibly lyrical in places, also has this underlying dissonance, the sense of it having itself been translated.”

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Author:Deborah Smith

“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.”

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Author:Pauline Oliveros

“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.”

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Author:Doseone

“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.”

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Author:Karen Abbott

“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.”

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Author:Taraka Larson

“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.”

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Author:Vandana Shiva

“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.”

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Author:Noah Hawley

“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.”

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Author:Tommy Lee Jones

“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.”

Thinking Way Body Given Ability Information Taught Communicate Linear

Book:Information Anxiety

Source: Information Anxiety

“Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.”

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Author:Curtis Hanson

“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.”

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Author:Ry Cooder

“The creative process is different from the traditional production and work-flow process. It is not so linear.”

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Author:John Kao

“Despite streaming, despite the rise of tablets and smartphones - all the implications which in theory would make linear TV less important - live sporting events are extremely powerful. But it's not the event alone - it's also what's surrounding it.”

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Author:Martin Sorrell

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

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Author:Karin Tidbeck

“I have not chosen to create a linear story, but a series of different narratives: in the end there are five plays that almost, but don't quite, add up to one play... I start with the story of Candide, being performed as a play within a play, to bring the audience up to speed with the story.”

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Author:Mark Ravenhill

“The way we teach is a very linear kind of way.”

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Author:Terry Bozzio

“It is very linear storytelling, and I think that's not so much the fashion. I was watching a new drama the other night which was extremely non-linear, where you flash back and flash forward in ways that certainly keeps you on your toes as the audience. There's not much of that courage with the storytelling in our Maigret film.”

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Author:Rowan Atkinson

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