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Quotes About Intersection

You have multiple core competencies with surprisingly minimal Venn.
~ Neal Stephenson
For they'd come out into the hurricane where Threadneedle, Cornhill, Poultry, and Lombard all collided.
~ Neal Stephenson
Now the roads just feed into a parking system -- not a lot, not a ramp, but a system -- and lose their identity. Getting through the intersection involves tracing paths through the parking system, many braided filaments of direction like the Ho Chi Minh trail. CSV-5 has better throughput, but Cal.12 has better pavement. That is typical -- Fairlanes roads emphasize getting you there, for Type A drivers, and Cruiseways emphasize the enjoyment of the ride, for Type B drivers.
~ Neal Stephenson
Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if just one of those tiny little things had never had happened, I'd never have met ya. Which makes this leaf the most important leaf in human history
~ Neil Cross
As religion is now practiced and science is now practiced, there is no intersection between the two. That is for certain. And it's not for want of trying. Over the centuries, many people - theologians as well scientists - have tried to explore points of intersection. And anytime anyone has declared that harmony has risen up, it is the consequence of religion acquiescing to scientific discovery. In every single case.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
It's kind of a continuum…We used to think that they were two totally different things, and now we know that there's a gray area in between…
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
the power to remind us that there are times when destiny and love collide.
~ Nicholas Sparks
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.
~ Jennifer Egan
perché aveva scritto che alla stazione di Torino due treni diretti s'incrociavano: l'uno in partenza, e l'altro in arrivo. La sua descrizione pareva stolidamente ridondante. Ma, a ripensarci bene, l'annotazione non è così ridondante come appare a prima vista. Dov'è che due treni che s'incrociano non ripartono entrambi dopo essere arrivati?
~ Umberto Eco
Dov'è che due treni che s'incrociano non ripartono entrambi dopo essere arrivati?
~ Umberto Eco
Inventar consiste en hacer que las cosas que se hallan paralelas en el espacio se encuentren en el tiempo o viceversa, y que al unirse muestren un hecho nuevo.
~ Vicente Huidobro
Common right is nought but the protection of all radiating over the right of each. This protection of all is termed Fraternity. The point of intersection of all these aggregated sovereignties is called Society. This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence comes what is called the social tie.
~ Victor Hugo
Lives are circles spinning across the world, and when they're meant to intersect again, they do. There's nothing we can do to stop it.
~ Kristin Harmel
We think of photography as the intersection of science and art.
~ land edwin
But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a point at which all the women she had been met—the Yaichkan and the Leningrader and the chyerti maiden; the girl who saw the birds, and the girl who never did—the woman she was and the woman she might have been and the woman she would always be, forever intersecting and colliding, a thousand birds falling from a thousand oaks, over and over.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at this specific point at which knowing and not knowing intersect that the psychoanalytic theory of traumatic experience and the language of literature meet.
~ Cathy Caruth
The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined. Mathematicians have never decided whether they should feel excited or upset by such events.
~ Gian-Carlo Rota
Let the paths from every direction recognize each other.
~ Gladys Cardiff
where power intersects with pleasure, there is danger. Adepts
~ Jacqueline Carey
The best ideas come from collisions between newer and older ideas.
~ James Altucher
So here's the solution and it works and can be applied at any age: get good at three, four, or five things. Then find the intersection. Then become the best in the world at the intersection. That's how you can pretend to do your special purpose.
~ James Altucher
A Hedgehog Concept is a simple, crystalline concept that flows from deeply understanding the intersection of the following three circles: (1) what you're deeply passionate about, (2) what you can be the best in the world at, and (3) what best drives your economic engine.
~ James C. Collins
Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map.
~ James Carlos Blake
I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.
~ Kathryn Harrison