Time Is Not Linear Quotes

#1. Time is not linear - and nor is it circular. Time itself does not 'continue'.

Time. Just. Is. It flows - within, without, around...and with...itself.

Pearl Kirkby

#2. Linear time has one claim to grandeur: it is the tragic aspect of Time

Alan McGlashan

#3. Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.

Eleanor Coppola

#4. F you could forget mortality ... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is bent on proving. Seen in geological perspective, we are fossils in the making, to be buried and eventually exposed again for the puzzlement of creatures of later eras.

Wallace Stegner

#5. The linear design of FFXIII had a great advantage in providing players with enough time to become familiarized with the new battle system and the unique world. But on the other hand, it led to players feeling like the majority of the game was a tutorial.

Motomu Toriyama

#6. What if time's not linear, the way people think it is? What if the past, present and future are all going on at the same time, only they're separated by- oh, I don't know- a kind of gauze or something. And maybe there are people that can see through that gauze.

Charles De Lint

#7. Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. Intuition eludes the grasp of linear thinking, with its exclusive emphasis on cause and effect that are close in time and space. The result is that most of our intuitions don't make sense - that is, they can't be explained in terms of linear logic. Very

Peter M. Senge

#9. God's time is slow, patient, and kind and welcomes friendship; it is a way of being in the fullness of time that is not determined by productivity, success, or linear movements toward personal goals. It is a way of love, a way of the heart.

John Swinton

#10. Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

Stanislav Grof

#11. Humans don't connect their actions with what befalls them. Don't they perceive time as linear?"
"They do," said Aitassi. "They just don't see why they should do anything individually to change their future to the one they want. All eight billion of them.

Karen Traviss

#12. All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the vortex of time and space, when your consciousness is fixated in a body.

Frederick Lenz

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

Daniel Pinchbeck

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

Stanislav Grof

#15. DESPITE THE INVENTION OF TIME MACHINES, WE KEEP BEING LINEAR.

Amy King

#16. Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.

Robert Lanza

#17. So it seems like all of history is concurrent. Its not a linear series of events. Its all happening simultaneously. There is one moment, and that moment is now, and we are always present in it.So Im not reenacting history so much as just living every time at once.

Leila Sales

#18. If the universe is movement, it will not be in one direction only. We think of our lives as linear but it is the spin of the earth that allows us to observe time. Walk with me.

Jeanette Winterson

#19. I regard any behavior we indulge in as a game. The soul is beyond not only three-dimensional space but beyond the illusion of linear time. Any method we use to move through three- or four- dimensional space is a game. It doesn't matter how serious we take it, or how serious its consequences are.

Douglas Rushkoff

#20. Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction
a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.

Louise J. Kaplan