Linearly Quotes

#1. I do think non-linearly. So I think that comes off as nervousness or anxiety in a person.

Michaela Watkins

#2. When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.

Roy Blount Jr.

#3. Numerous studies have shown that online - and especially on smart phones - people no longer read linearly as they once did, nor do they read with nearly the same engagement.

Steven D. Stark

#4. As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.

Julian Assange

#5. I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without depending on others as that is the only way to be happy to have all your business in your own hands.

Martha Washington

#6. We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.

Vinod Khosla

#7. It is not only impolitic and injudicious to even attempt to think ouside a box with a linearly skewed, acutely constrained and partial view. I would rather choose to think iside an infinitesimal pinfold but in 3D.

John Onyango Agumba

#8. Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain.

Tony Buzan

#9. 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.

Ray Kurzweil

#10. You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.

Lawrence Wright

#11. A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each phrase, each line, has a proper emotional feel and connects to the line before it and the line after it, the song will be doing what it should be doing.

Robert Hunter

#12. Time does not move linearly just because we think it does. And the past does not cease to exist simply because we have moved beyond it.

Charline Ratcliff

#13. It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!

Enrico Fermi

#14. I pull my T-shirt over my face and am about to plunge in when it occurs to me that I'm approaching this, as Kiernan would say, far too linearly.

Rysa Walker

#15. My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

Nancy Duarte

#16. My new language is taking shape. It is gestalt oriented, rendering it beautifully suited for thought, but impractical for writing or speech. It wouldn't be transcribed in the form of words arranged linearly, but as a giant ideogram, to be absorbed as a whole.

Ted Chiang

#17. I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Anthony Hopkins

#18. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.

Stephen Dunn

#19. So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

Jackson Browne

#20. It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

Andy Hargreaves

#21. And how is Uncle Edward? or is he dead? I've reached the time of life when relatives die unnoticed.

Graham Greene

#22. His dick throbbing now like a smashed thumb ...

Cherrie Lynn

#23. Taking care of yourself, taking time for yourself & rewarding yourself is NOT selfish. It's important & absolutely necessary!

Tanya Masse

#24. I wouldn't trade my life for anybody's.

Greg Boyle

#25. When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.

Bryce Dallas Howard