Quotes About Sequence

Podía suceder cualquier cosa en aquel instante. La verdad es que hay momentos en los que la omnipresente y lógica red de las secuencias causales se rinde, cogida por sorpresa por la vida, y baja al patio de butacas, mezclándose con el público, para dejar que en el escenario, bajo las luces de una libertad vertiginosa y repentina, una mano invisible pesque en el infinito regazo de lo posible y, entre millones de cosas, sólo permita que ocurra una.

You must not think that because one thing happens after another thing, then it is the first thing that causes the second thing. You must not think that, because it might not be true.

post hoc ergo propter hoc. In other words, there would be no causal

Order is the key to all problems.

I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.

Einstein once quipped that time's only purpose was to make sure that everything didn't happen at once.

The result is that we are tempted to infer a cause-and-effect relationship when all we have witnessed is a sequence of events. This is the post-hoc fallacy.

Sometimes I wonder if I met everyone in my life in the wrong order.

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things.

the only reason for time is so everything doesn't happen at

Choices are like dominoes, one tumbling against the next and then the next until events go out of human control.

or, at least, should have a rota

Sequence wants to be free.

There were eleven months between me and Liam. We came out of her on each other's tails; one after the other, as fast as a gang-bang, as fast as an infidelity.

The fact is that proprietary databases don't work for such basic and broadly needed information as the sequence of the human genome.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

I've told you many times that the first thing I decide is the kind of story I want. (...) This is not the kind of story I want. The story we bought had shine and glow - it was a happy story. This is all full of doubt and hesitation. The hero and heroine stop loving each other over trifles - then they start up again over trifles. After the first sequence you don't care if she never sees him again or he her.

The novelist makes his statements by selection, and if he is any good, he selects every word for a reason, every detail for a reason, every incident for a reason, and arranges them in a certain time-sequence for a reason. He demonstrates something that cannot possibly be demonstrated any other way than with a whole novel.

The Christ event derives its meaning from the fact that the three-personed God is directly acting as one throughout the entire sequence from incarnation to ascension to Last Judgment.

Taking the third step before the first would be fatal.

The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.

First things first, second things never.