Linear Quotes

“Life is a linear equation in which you can't cross multiply! If you think you can do it, you can do it. If you think you can't do it, you can't do it. It's a simple formula!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Time is a wave or a black hole could not bend it; humanity rides the crest of an infinite number of waves that are perceived as linear in their limited frame of reference.”
― Ken Poirot

“History fancies itself linear - but yields to a cyclical temptation.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Time refuses to be simplified and reduced. You cannot say that it is found only in the mind or only in the universe, that it runs only in one direction, or in every one imaginable. That it exists only in biological substructure, or is only a social convention. That it is only individual or only collective, only cyclic, only linear, relative, absolute, determined, universal or only local, only indeterminate, illusory, totally true, immeasurable, measurable, explicable, or unapproachable. It is all of these things.”
― Peter Høeg, Borderliners

“Humans like to consider everything as linear, when in reality everything is cyclic.

They are obsessed with straight lines. Straight roads, straight houses, straight pieces of steel, glass, and timber. Straight cut diamonds. Let’s get straight to the point. Be straight with me. I am straight, not gay.

And this is how they see their lives. A linear journey, along the road of life. That is where expressions such as Highway to Hell come from.

But what about other expressions, such as the life cycle, the cycle of nature, and the weather cycle?

Because of this obsession with straight lines, they view history and historical events, as existing way back along an imaginary path, one they are sure they are far away from. Like watching a fading wake from a ship.

So when they look at the religious wars, for example, the Christians versus the Muslims, the rise and fall of Empires, democracies and dictatorships, they seem blind when comparing present day situations with those of the past.

The majority of humans see evolution as a race along a straight race track, a race they are winning by a long margin, yet they are afraid to ever slow down, in case other life catches them.

If they did slow down long enough, they may observe that the track is actually cyclic.”
― Robert Black

“If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear “cradle to grave” construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant. Job descriptions used for hiring are one such example. Hiring managers often write these as a reflection of their own experiences, ignoring the fact that we are entering an era where the emphasis should be less on ready competence and more on transferable skills.”
― Gyan Nagpal

“Just because everyone else does, it doesn't mean you have to. Break the repetitive cycle and excel beyond the norm.”
― Torron-Lee Dewar

“Spiderwebs are images of the nonlinear, of the many directions in which something might go, the many sources for it[.]”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

“To whoever needs to hear this: It's never too late to change directions. Life isn't a linear path. So do not stifle your potential by staying in a lane that doesn't fit what you want for yourself anymore.”
― Robin S. Baker

“The quickest route to success is a straight line. A straight line in its purest form, is simple. We must activate the power of simplicity!”
― Troy Sandidge, Strategize Up: The Simplified Blueprint To Scaling Your Business

“Don't tell me you believe in ghosts, Finn.'

'Ghosts, not exactly. Traces, yeah. Sort of.'

'Traces?'

'Here's my theory. Everything is energy. We all leave something behind. Now, there's folk who'll swear on their granny's last breath that they've seen a ghost. And I reckon some of them have. Or rather, they've seen traces of a past energy.'
...
Finn was talking with his hands now, trying to make some sense. 'We think that time moves forward, in a linear fashion. Yeah? But sometimes you get deja vu, or there's some mad coincidence that you can't explain. I think time doesn't move in a linear fashion, but in a spiral, and sometimes there's echoes from the past. And a ghost is just an echo of someone.”
― C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

“Spiritual leaders do so much to keep the faith of their followers strong.

Some lie because the truth is linear. What you call a lie might be truth progressing into another realm of reality”
― Victor UzihBen

“You cannot read mathematics the way you read a novel. If you zip through a
page in less than an hour, you are probably going too fast.”
― Sheldon Axler Paul Bourdon Wade Ramey

“You cannot read mathematics the way you read a novel. If you zip through a
page in less than an hour, you are probably going too fast.”
― Sheldon Axler, Spectral Methods in Fluid Dynamics