Quotes About Discontinuity

#1. Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.

Marshall McLuhan

#2. universe. The Big Bang may be the beginning of the universe, or it may be a discontinuity in which information about the earlier history of the universe was destroyed.

Anonymous

#3. Paganism therefore implies the rejection of this discontinuity, this rupture, this fundamental tear, which is the "dualistic fiction," which, as Nietzsche wrote in The Antichrist, "degenerated God into the contradiction of life, instead of being its transfiguration and eternal Yes!

Alain De Benoist

#4. They are being offered a narrative, an historical story whose hope of 'salvation' lies not in a flight from history but in a great convulsive change within history, a transformation in which there will be continuity with the present as well as discontinuity.

N. T. Wright

#5. A discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature.

Harold Hotelling

#6. Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#7. I don't do match cuts really. That's a ridiculous thing to say - I do. But we always explore how we can propel a scene, and that's including dialogue, without doing match cuts. Because the audience is really willing to accept a lot of discontinuity.

Sally Menke

#8. Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation ... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.

Leonard Woolf

#9. Hopefulness is risky, since it is after all a form of trust, trust in the unknown and the possible, even in discontinuity. To be hopeful is to take on a different persona, one that risks disappointment, betrayal...

Rebecca Solnit

#10. A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity
culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.

Rebecca Solnit

#11. Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

Gregory Bateson

#12. The draw by stalemate looks like a spot of discontinuity in the otherwise harmonious universe of values. To save a game by letting yourself be so completely humiliated as not being able to make a move looks rather undeserved.

Mihail Marin

#13. Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science.

Ernest Lawrence

#14. In Detroit, in a city that in many cases the world has rejected, that's where God shows up. Every example in the Gospels where God shows up, it's always when the seas are the stormiest, where there is discontinuity.

Clark Durant

#15. Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#16. The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.

Paul Hirsch

#17. Specific units - such as memes are intended to represent have meaning when there is essential discontinuity between categories. Such convenient discontinuities are found in atoms, elementary particles, genes, and DNA.

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

#18. To use a good book as a sedative is conspicuous waste.

Mortimer J. Adler

#19. The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself.

George W. Bush

#20. Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of senselessness. I am tired of the music that my feelings sing, the dream music.

Ross David Burke

#21. Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.

Christopher McQuarrie

#22. Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.

Frederick Sommer

#23. Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

Laverne Cox

#24. There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

Florence Nightingale

#25. Everyday we play and enjoy the life's game.
The world changes but essence remains the same.

Debasish Mridha

#26. the essential feature of the Dissociative Disorders is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity,or perception

American Psychiatric Association

#27. Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

Jena Malone

#28. People love kids and kids like to cook.

Graham Elliot

#29. Shared, the pain was double, but only half so crippling. She couldn't bring herself to wish for the strenght to stand alone.

Betsy Cornwell

#30. Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.

Alan Dershowitz