#linear

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#absolutely not #jigsaw #jigsaw puzzle #like #linear

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. ↗

— Julia Stiles

#family #friends #i #i love #i think

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

— Penelope Lively

#ambivalence #been #fascinated #fragmented #i

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

— Imelda Marcos

#different way #i #i think #linear #logical

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