Quotes About Chronology

One theory I find rather comforting is that time exists so that everything doesn't happen all at once.

And When is not what matters. It's what happens in the When that matters. Are you ready to go?

Never be late Age and time do not wait

The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.

The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.

'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.

Who becomes Character. What becomes Action. (What happened.) Where becomes Setting. When becomes Chronology. Why becomes Cause or Motive. How becomes Process. (How it happened.)

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The only problem is time.

The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.

Day is just a collection of hours.

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

The text of 14:3–5 has played an important role in the larger chronological discussions. For example, Rashi argued that Pharaoh was prompted to pursue the Israelites because of their failure to return after three days (cf. 5:3). If this is the case, Rashi continued, "on the fifth and sixth day they pursued them . . . and, thus, this was the seventh day of Passover.

In a cyclical system, however, such a linear progression repeats itself endlessly; each end is followed by a new beginning. Determining the time system of Scandinavian mythology presents special challenges because many of the sources were recorded by Christians, whose notion of time was linear and whose notion of history called for an essentially clear chronology.

When the chronology of extinction is critically set against the chronology of human migrations," Paul Martin of the University of Arizona wrote in "Prehistoric Overkill," his seminal paper on the subject, "man's arrival emerges as the only reasonable answer" to the megafauna's disappearance.

Using Anchors is a great approach to designing prompts because anyone can do it. There's no need for fancy watches or whizzy apps to prompt new habits. You can do it yourself more effectively, and you will discover how transformative a simple design hack can be. The power of after is not magic, it's closer to chemistry. Combine the right behaviors with the right chronology, and, poof, a new habit is created.

D'autres amours viendront bien entendu se greffer sur les premières forces aimantes. Mais toutes ces amours ne pourront jamais détruire la priorité historique de notre premier sentiment. La chronologie du cÅ"ur est indestructible.

La historia nunca es espontánea. Incluso, rara vez es una cadena de eventos

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

Inside the time bubble we do not age. We age only when we are outside of it.

The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once

Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.

I always like worlds where you could be in several different time periods.

You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.