Quotes About Sequence

A-B-D-C-E structure of a story, an acronym for Action-Background-Development-Conflict-Ending.

My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.

It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule.

How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.

I remember starting working on the concept and the script for 'Pacific Rim' with a very, very conscious decision to say, 'I don't want any of these big sequences to take place in America,' because I feel like that's become so regular to the disaster genre, and then it sort of devolves into landmark stomping.

It's hard enough to get four hits in a Major League Baseball game, yet alone have them all be the right ones and the right sequence.

I look at things logically. The humor I do is to go from A to B to C to D, and F is the funny.

The seeds of any outcome can always be traced back to some earlier moment, and to all those that preceded it. The further back we trace the path, the hazier the connections will become until the tiniest action might be said to have been the origin of any great event.

Mistakes are dominoes, falling on one another in a mechanical, unstoppable progression

My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.

I think 'Lost' didn't invent the flashback, obviously. It's been a cinematic tool. It's been around almost as long as cinema has.

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

For history as far as I can see is not the arrangement of what happens, in sequence and in truth, but a fabulous arrangement of surmises and guesses held up as a banner against the assault of withering truth.

For history as far as I can see is not the arrangement of what happens, in sequence and in truth, but a fabulous arrangement of surmises and guesses held up as a banner against the assault of withering truth. History

Day is just a collection of hours.

Breakfast should always come before sleuthing.

Each asana is like a sound or letter in an alphabet. Every letter in an alphabet produces a unique sound vibration. Each asana vibrates at a specific frequency. When asanas are performed in sequence, beautiful phrases or sutras result, producing a mystical language.

Here's the thing: I'm ridiculously smart, and I'm pretty sure I have a photographic memory. It's like I have a camera in my head, and if I see or hear something, I click it, and it stays. I saw a special on PBS once on children who were geniuses. These kids could remember complicated strands of numbers and recall words and pictures in correct sequence and quote long passages of poetry. So can I.

The first thing that confronts us in studying verbal structures is that they are arranged sequentially, and have to be read or listened to in time.

The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.

Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.