#linear

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. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#answer #became #drift #films #go

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. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#bound #could #creative #creative life #easily

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. ↗

— Sanjay Kumar

#been #business #degree #exponential #growing

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#history #human #human history #nonlinear #unpredictable

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. ↗

— Justin Theroux

#follow #give #happen #information #know

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

— Michelle Williams

#circles #connect #i #i think #life

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. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#bring #circular #convinced #even #experience

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. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#certainly #developed #dinosaurs #get #happens

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

— Selma Blair

#been #career #confusing #had #haven

To some degree. I think that I've always been very much of a chordal person. The chords are the foundation of everything. Some of Yes' stuff is very linear, albeit complex, but it's single-line melodic stuff. So I kind of had to wear a different cap working with Yes. It's not so much chord-based. ↗

— Geoff Downes

#always #been #cap #chords #complex