Quotes About Sequence

order for all your work, my friend: First

There is no essential self that lies pure as a vein of gold under the chaos of experience and chemistry. Anything can be changed, and we must understand the human organism as a sequence of selves that succumb to or choose one another.

Each of these moments was a pearl on a string, one prettier and more perfect than the next.

Have you ever heard of the Swiss cheese model? In order for a catastrophic event, such as a plane crash, to occur, a sequence of events precedes it. Think of these separate factors as slices of Swiss cheese lined up one behind the other. If any one of the holes in them doesn't align with the others, the series of events is changed or curtailed, and a catastrophe is prevented. But if all the holes line up --- The door is open for disaster.

But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.

All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.

And every one of these events is connected. But not by luck: it's pure cause and effect.

Looming above their groves and plantations, the massive mansions of Patricians reflected an austere design of rectilinear geometry, with many a pillared portico, ambulatory, or chalcidicum of unsmiling caryatids circumvallating solemn cloisters, crowned with entablatures ordered by the golden mean, or belvedere, tower, and clerestory windows reflecting the Fibonacci sequence

Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence—a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.

It is that sequence of first knowing and then experiencing, that will allow us to treasure God's love.3

He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]

Life is just one damned thing after another.

There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.

But the general/ specific canon makes all the difference if the general provision has been enacted later.

Movie cast should be admired by the audience in the following sequence -Comedians, Villains, Supporting Actors and leftover admiration for the Lead Actor branded as Superstar.

By plot, I here mean the arrangement of the incidents.

Things always happen in series.

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil.

I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around.

I think there's only eight songs on 'Born to Run' - I don't think it's much more than 35 minutes long. But as you move into it, where every song comes up in the sequence makes a lot of sense - though we weren't thinking about it; we were going on instinct at the time.

When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense.

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

Everything is a consequence of Something. The element of coincidence doesn't exist. We only think it exists because we cannot keep up with all processes that happen around us.