Non-Linear Progression Quotes

Our course of advance... is neither a straight line nor a curve. It is a series of dots and dashes.

Democracy is a process that doesn't march in lock step.

That ... is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.

History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.

Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.

Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move.

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn't.

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.

The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.

His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life.

Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

Success...is no longer a simple ascension of steps. You need to climb sideways and sometimes down, and sometimes you need to swing from the jungle gym and establish your own turf somewhere else on the playground.

The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present.

When you organize your work and look back at your entire production, it may feel like you're looking at a straight line, but in fact it's nothing like that. The work is very experimental and most of the time it develops like branches. I usually see a capillary, like a tree shape where there are... branches that sort of move because you're not tending to them.

My style was always to spread out rather than to move up.

There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don't try to draw that line. You will not just get it wrong, you'll miss big opportunities. And I mean big-like the Internet. Careers are not ladders, those days are long gone, but jungle gyms. Don't just move up and down, don't just look up, look backwards, sideways around corners. Your career and your life will have starts and stops and zigs and zags. Don't stress out about the white space-the path you can't draw- because there in lies both the surprises and the opportunities.

In my experience, each project is what it is, and nothing is necessarily a turning point.

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

I guess my career has gone in a roundabout way.

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.

Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.

My route so far through life hasn't been particularly logical, or even thought out.