Overlapping Quotes:

Universe is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

source: R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.81, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

topic: Humanity, Overlapping, Universe

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

- Ani DiFranco

topic: Strength, Differences, Diversity, Individual Differences, Overlapping

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

- Mary Garden

topic: Block, Two, Discipline, Overlapping, Writer's Block

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

- Kenneth Lee Pike

topic: Discipline, Coherence, Facts, Overlapping, Acknowledgement

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

- Mignon McLaughlin

source: Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.24, BookBaby

topic: Love, Anniversary, Marriage, Husband To Be, Marriage And Divorce

Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.

- Annie Dillard

source: Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.139, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

topic: Space, Landscape, Moments, Overlapping, Intricacy

It was like their lives were overlapping lines, like they had their own gravity. Usually, that serendipity thing felt like the nicest thing the universe had ever done for her.

- Rainbow Rowell

topic: Serendipity, Lines, Done, Overlapping

There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones.

- Anabel Jensen

topic: Mixing, Emotion, Hundred, Overlapping

Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

- Rex Brandt

topic: Perspective, Depth, Shapes, Overlapping

The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions.

- Masaru Emoto

source: Masaru Emoto (2011). “The Hidden Messages in Water”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

topic: Symphony, Proportion, Results, Overlapping, Frequency

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

- Barack Obama

topic: America, Justice, Competition, Overlapping, Personal Leadership

maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we will make something of our lives. what if we are so busy searching for worth that we miss the sapphire sky and cackling blackbird. what else is missing? maybe our steps are too straight and our paths too narrow and not overlapping. maybe when they overlap someone in another country lights a candle, a couple resolves their argument, a young man puts down his silver gun and walks away.

- Naomi Shihab Nye

topic: Country, Couple, Ignorance, Overlapping, Sapphires

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

- Edgar Degas

topic: Real, Communication, Half, Overlapping

They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.

- A. S. Byatt

source: FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from May 22, 2013

topic: Beach, Dark, Night, Overlapping

By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.

- C. Wright Mills

source: C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.18, Oxford University Press

topic: Military, Power, Circles, Overlapping

A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another. When a particular species is destroyed by a severe disturbance so that a link in the network is broken, a diverse community will be able to survive and reorganize itself... In other words, the more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.

- Fritjof Capra

topic: Ecosystems, Broken, Community, Ecological, Overlapping

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

source: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Galen A. Johnson, Michael B. Smith (1993). “The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting”, p.145, Northwestern University Press

topic: Metamorphosis, Photograph, Overtaking, Overlapping

But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket

- Lawrence Durrell

topic: Events, Baskets, Crabs, Overlapping

I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.

- Anna Kavan

source: Anna Kavan, Brian Wilson Aldiss (1990). “My madness: the selected writings of Anna Kavan”

topic: Feelings, Confusing, Curious, Overlapping

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

- Erin Morgenstern

source: Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.266, Random House

topic: Book, Dark, Sea, Overlapping, Night Circus

Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.

- David Eagleman

source: Source: www.goodreads.com

topic: Choices, Brain, Democracy, Overlapping, Different Choices

The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping stories.

- Tony Kushner

topic: Nashville, Stories, Influence, Overlapping

San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.

- Christopher Moore

topic: Beautiful, Dark, Light, Overlapping, Beautiful City

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.

- Annie Dillard

source: Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.77, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

topic: Time, Children, Ascending, Overlapping, Slinkies

I think of Google as a set of overlapping things. It's a consumer platform, consumer phenomenon of which search is its fundamental activity, but there are many other things you can do than search... I think of Google as an advertising company who services the broader advertising industry in the ways that you know.

- Eric Schmidt

source: "Google CEO Eric Schmidt Interview: His Thoughts On Search, Books, News, Mobile, Competition And More". Interview with Michael Arrington, techcrunch.com. August 31, 2009.

topic: Thinking, Google, Fundamentals, Overlapping, Advertising Industry

I've got an efficiency and a guerrilla approach ... plus a unique synergy where everything I do helps everything else because it's overlapping.

- Rick Steves

topic: Unique, Helping, Efficiency, Overlapping, Synergy

Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.

- Edmund Leach

topic: Sacrifice, Hands, Truth Is, Overlapping

Of course, when a poem is being born, the reasoning part of the brain throbs away at full throttle, but all the other areas are overlapping and interacting as well, the emotional, intuitive, animal areas.

- Michael Longley

source: Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

topic: Animal, Emotional, Brain, Throttle, Overlapping

A famous violinist once said. Music transcends words. By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. In that moment, music transcends words.

- KAORI

topic: Heart, Miracle, Soul, Overlapping, Violinist

We are made up of an entire parliament of pieces and parts and subsystems. Beyond a collection of local expert systems, we are collections of overlapping, ceaselessly reinvented mechanism, a group of competing factions. The conscious mind fabricates stories to explain the sometimes inexplicable dynamics of the subsystem inside brain. It can be disquieting to consider the extent to which all of our actions are driven by hardwired systems doing what they do best while we overlay stories about choices.

- David Eagleman

source: David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.157, Vintage

topic: Choices, Mind, Brain, Overlapping, Fabricate

Sometimes I use words to throw you from once scene to the other, and sometimes I use words to pull you from one scene to the other. You might not be aware of it, but I may have overlapping words one way or the other. So, I'm actually using words.

- Fred Schepisi

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Use, May, Might, Using Words, Overlapping

Ignisecond, n.: The overlapping moment of time when the hand is locking the car door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!"

- Rich Hall

topic: Doors, Hands, Keys, Overlapping

Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether in time or space, can be described as a series of overlapping sine waves of multiple frequencies and various amplitudes.

- Bruce Hood

topic: Space, Simplicity, Patterns, Overlapping, Fourier

I'm conscious of the fact that a lot of Ekoplekz material got released in quick succession. It was difficult for people to keep up. The thing is, once you hand over the material to the label you have no control over when something comes out - at one point I had whole LPs that were overlapping.

- Ekoplekz

topic: Hands, People, Labels, Overlapping

There is a theory behind the culture of victimhood: It's called "intersectionality." This theory posits that racism, sexism, classism, ableism, etc. are interconnected, overlapping, and mutually reinforcing. Together they form a "matrix of oppression."

- Christina Hoff Sommers

source: "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

topic: Racism, Together, Culture, Intersectionality, Overlapping

You have two parties that are funded by deep corporate interests, largely overlapping, that you begin to see a convergence. You have the Republican intelligentsia and the Republican spokespeople, and 50 GOP security figures who have all come into Hillary's [Clinton] camp. Not to mention Mitt Romney, who has defected from [Donald] Trump, although it's not clear where his vote is going to be. But everyone from John Negroponte to Meg Whitman have all declared allegiance to Hillary. And Hillary has likewise, very formally opened the door to encouraging Republicans to come in.

- Jill Stein

source: Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

topic: Party, Doors, Two, Overlapping, Spokespeople

The multiverse as a real physical construct within physics overlapping with a more mystical understanding of many possible worlds - the notion of there being a root down at the quantum level between intention and reality, between consciousness and existence - it's not a matter of trying to explain the mystery of magic away with a pat mechanism of a pseudoscience, it's just a matter of trying to ground it in a domain.

- Jon Spaihts

source: Source: www.mtv.com

topic: Real, Roots, Understanding, Pseudoscience, Overlapping

There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and most kids read an age group up anyway.

- Terry Pratchett

source: Source: bobneilson.org

topic: Children, Book, Kids, Overlapping

Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.

- Lou Gerstner

topic: Responsibility, Agency, Usa, Overlapping

A gunshot rang out, blasting a hole in the door. A crossbow quarrel zinged through the hole and stuck quivering into the opposite wall. Seth heard the rocking horse clattering down the staircase, the twang of bowstrings, and the overlapping beat of several other projectiles thudding against the door. "That was awesome," Seth told Kendra. "You're psychotic," Kendra replied.

- Brandon Mull

topic: Horse, Wall, Doors, Staircases, Overlapping

The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

- Thomas Szasz

source: Thomas Stephen Szasz (1978). “The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing As Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression”, p.25, Syracuse University Press

topic: Religion, Ingredients, Categories, Overlapping

Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.

- David Mitchell

source: David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.445, Random House

topic: Keys, Order, Color, Clarinet, Overlapping

Churches are the primary partners that work with Habitat in an almost infinite variety of creative overlapping circles. We cherish these partnerships with churches…I have always seen Habitat for Humanity as a servant of the church and as a vehicle through which the church and its people can express their love, faith, and servanthood to people in need in a very tangible and concrete (literally!) way.

- Millard Fuller

source: Millard Fuller (1994). “The Theology of the Hammer”, p.53, Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.

topic: Circles, People, Creative, Faith In Love, Overlapping

The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence of every place, every day: in the markets, small chapels, out-of-the-way parks, craft shops. Curiosity about the extraordinary in the ordinary moves the heart of the traveler intent on seeing behind the veil of tourism.

- Phil Cousineau

topic: Moving, Heart, Essence, Overlapping, Chapel

Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Running, Flames, Sensual, Overlapping, Flapping

In the final analysis the hierarchic pattern is nothing like the straightforward witness for organic evolution that is commonly assumed. There are facets of the hierarchy which do not flow naturally from any sort of random undirected evolutionary process. If the hierarchy suggests any model of nature it is typology and not evolution. How much easier it would be to argue the case for evolution if all nature's divisions were blurred and indistinct, if the systema naturalae was largely made up of overlapping classes indicative of sequence and continuity.

- Michael Denton

topic: Class, Would Be, Finals, Overlapping, Typology

[The canonization of the Koran involved the] attribution of several, partially overlapping, collections of logia [sayings] (exhibiting a distinctly Mosaic imprint) to the image of a Biblical prophet (modified by the material of the Muhammadan evangelium into an Arabian man of God) with a traditional message of salvation (modified by the influence of Rabbinic Judaism into the unmediated and finally immutable word of God).

- John Wansbrough

topic: Biblical, Men, Islam, Overlapping, Attribution

When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become. Later.. later there is more uncertainty, more overlapping, more backtracking, more false memories. Back then, you can remember your short life in its entirety. Later, the memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches.

- Julian Barnes

topic: Strong, Memories, Short Life, Overlapping, Backtracking

People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have overlapping identities which unite us with very different groups. We can love what we are, without hating what – and who – we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings.

- Kofi Annan

source: Twitter post from Feb 14, 2017

topic: Hate, Teaching, People, Overlapping, Different Religions

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

- Frederik Pohl

topic: Population, Fiction, Science Fiction, Overlapping