Quotes About Sequence

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

Life is about timing.

Politics at bottom is not all that complicated. It's all about timing.

In our business, everything is timing.

As in life, so with television: timing is everything.

For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together.

critical path is the shortest sequence of work that can complete the project.

According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

Time in the heart and sequence in the brain-- Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine. And let us then take godhead by the neck-- And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric.

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

At the very core of what a comic is, time and space are kind of the same thing. When your reader moves her eyes across the page, she should be moving through time in your story.

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

Everything has a place and time.

Al igual que la escritura, la pintura parece reflejar un mundo patas arriba en el que, por así decirlo, la flecha del tiempo discurre en sentido contrario. Las invisibles líneas de la velocidad hacen pensar en un nexo de secuencia y proceso muy diferente. De nuevo ese razonamiento. Siempre me intriga y me desazona, es curioso. Me pregunto si todas las artes son así.

Casi todo el mundo, ante una sucesión de hechos, acertará a colegir qué se sigue de ellos... Los distintos acontecimientos son percibidos por la inteligencia, en la que, ya organizados, apuntan a un resultado. A partir de éste, sin embargo, pocas gentes saben recorrer el camino contrario, es decir, el de los pasos cuya sucesión condujo al punto final. A semejante virtud deductiva llamo razonar hacia atrás o analíticamente

Moving lockstep through a series of predictable transitions is no longer a route to personal security. Each man and woman must put together a highly individualized sequence of transitions in and out of school, work, and marriage in order to take advantage of shifting opportunities and respond to unexpected setbacks--a do-it-yourself biolography.

Given the intervention of the gods and other magical and supernatural happenings, I have—as mentioned in the Introduction that you so wisely skipped—thought it best to tell the story of the war and its aftermath without attempting to dot every sequential iota or cross every chronological tau.

Parenting role-play change every ten years from affection to duty to responsibility, and then the cycle must reverse with next generation playing the same in the reverse sequence.

Can you define 'plan' as a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance? If so, then it was a very good plan.

A continuación se puso amarillo, luego verde, luego morado y, desplomándose del todo, se desmayó lo mejor que pudo.

every event whatsoever has a prior cause, whether known or not.

Claro es que para trazar un círculo hay que hay que empezar por algún lado, pero una vez cerrado deja de plantearse el problema de su principio.

a pattern that is likely to continue.