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  • You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers discontinuities in the data, perhaps, or in one's own thinking; then the act of writing forces you to work harder to resolve these contradictions.

  • The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.

    Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.48, The Feminist Press at CUNY
  • Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both successive and identical (or at least similar); it makes it possible to rethink the dispersion of history in the form of the same; it allows a reduction of the difference proper to every beginning, in order to pursue without discontinuity the endless search for origin.

    Michel Foucault (2002). “Archaeology of Knowledge”, p.21, Psychology Press
  • Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have at the moment of commemoration.

    Years   Here I Am   Space  
    "Selected Writings: 1927-1934".
  • 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.

    Dna   Essentials   Atoms  
    Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Marcus W. Feldman (1981). “Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A Quantitative Approach”, p.70, Princeton University Press
  • 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.

  • I chop and change between what is called 'work' and what is called 'recreation.' There are no discontinuities in my day. I only play tennis with people I find interesting.

  • A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.

    Unity   Might   Harmony  
    Lawrence Kushner (2010). “I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego”, p.150, Jewish Lights Publishing
  • 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 (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.105, Penguin
  • Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.

    Space   Challenges   Flow  
    "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.43, 1988.
  • 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.

    Mean   Numbers   Next  
    "Number is Different from Quantity". CoEvolution Quarterly, www.oikos.org. Spring 1978.
  • How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws of nature will mark a discontinuity in human intellectual history, the sharpest that has occurred since the beginning of modern science in the seventeenth century. Can we now imagine what that would be like?

    Science   Discovery   Law  
    Steven Weinberg (1992). “Dreams of a Final Theory”, Pantheon
  • Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality, a short circuit in his identity. The result is his originality, his creativity comes to an end. He becomes the one-book novelist or the one-trilogy writer.

    1987 'The Eternal Plebeian and Other Matters', in Shifting Landscape.
  • We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.

    Fall   Past   Space  
    Teju Cole (2011). “Open City: A Novel”, p.172, Random House
  • ...a discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature.

    Harold Hotelling (2012). “The Collected Economics Articles of Harold Hotelling”, p.52, Springer Science & Business Media
  • The problem, thus, is not whether or not women are to combine marriage and motherhood with work or career but how they are to do so--concomitantly in a two-role continuous pattern or sequentially in a pattern involving job or career discontinuities.

  • 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. Between two and three there is a jump. In the case of quantity, there is no such jump; and because jump is missing in the world of quantity, it is impossible for any quantity to be exact. You can have exactly three tomatoes. You can never have exactly three gallons of water. Always quantity is approximate.

    Mean   Two   Numbers  
    "Number is Different from Quantity". CoEvolution Quarterly, www.oikos.org. Spring 1978.
  • The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that there is no technique, no program, just a sharp mind in touch with the situation.

    Real   Lying   Challenges  
    Henry Mintzberg (2003). “The Strategy Process: Concepts, Contexts, Cases”, p.148, Pearson Education
  • I've lived in a preindustrial (rural Argentina) as well as an industrial world. You experience a different sense of time in a community that works the land. Human relationships aren't professionalized or contractualized; family and friends take primacy. Life has much more continuity than discontinuity. There's a great deal of poetry in everyday life.

    Time   Land   Community  
  • I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.

  • 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.

    Keys   Track   Sound  
  • Wherever we look at the living biota … discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent…The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New species usually appear in the fossil record suddenly, not connected with their ancestors by a series of intermediates.

    Looks   Records   Fossils  
  • 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.

    Self   Musical   Records  
  • If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong in the latter camp.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • 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.

    Moving   Games   Looks  
  • Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

    Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.13, Grove Press
  • Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.

    Frederick Sommer, John Weiss, University of Delaware. Dept. of Art, Delaware Art Museum (1980). “Venus, Jupiter & Mars: the photographs of Frederick Sommer : an exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum from April 27 through June 8, 1980”
  • The United States is in the midst of many spirited political debates about national priorities and public spending... However, we have found that science is an area where both political parties can find common ground, and in which political change does not necessarily create discontinuities.

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