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Quotes About Sequence

In addition, the child with poor tactile awareness in his mouth, lips, tongue, and jaw may have a sensory-based motor problem called oral apraxia, which affects his ability to produce and sequence sounds necessary for speech.
~ Carol Stock Kranowitz
All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
~ Casey Stengel
It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.
~ Cassandra Clare
We are accustomed to think of events as a sequence of facts: one set of facts follows another in a never-ending chain. When a situation has thinking participants, the chain does not lead directly from fact to fact. It links a fact to the participants' thinking and then connects the participants' thinking to the next set of facts.
~ George Soros
There is time for everything.
~ Thomas A. Edison
One might be a coincidence." Hands on her hips, she turned back. "Put them together it's a pattern.
~ J.D. Robb
Music can be thought of as a type of perceptual illusion in which our brain imposes structure and order on a sequence of sounds. Just how this structure leads us to experience emotional reactions is part of the mystery of music.
~ Daniel Levitin
A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.
~ Francis Crick
A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.
~ Edward Sapir
I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It's not all in ether. It's on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I write what's missing, and that's my first draft.
~ Richard Greenberg
For anyone who's a fan of the 'X-files' show - I mean, I have the ultimate role. I got to deal with Mulder. I got to talk to him; I had a fight sequence with him. Really, for anyone who is a fan of the show, I think I fulfilled a lot of young boys' dreams.
~ Rhys Darby
puts the cart before the horse.
~ Swami Vivekananda
But once we become aware that the sequence is starting, we can consciously and intentionally initiate a different, more constructive response.
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
Each moment follows inexorably from the previous one and is followed inexorably by the next, links forged in a causal chain.
~ Ted Chiang
My books are written with a strong chronological spine.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
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~ Neal Stephenson
Nowadays he is best remembered for the Fibonacci sequence of numbers (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 . . .), in which each successive number is the sum of the previous two, and the ratio between a number and its immediate antecedent tends towards a 'golden mean' (around 1.618). It
~ Niall Ferguson
Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet there are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen.
~ Nicholas Sparks
If 'Black Balloon' had come out before 'The Mummy,' casting agents wouldn't have been able to see me for the first time in 'The Mummy.' But now that 'The Mummy' has come out before 'The Black Balloon,' that's a very good combination.
~ Luke Ford
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.
~ Umberto Eco
Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
~ Gertrude Stein
Real problems follow upon each other in a way which makes sense to the intellectual imagination.
~ Giorgio De Santillana
The ultimate in parallel thinking is the Golden Rule—providing it is read both ways. The traditional sequence assumes a healthy self-esteem and asks for empathy: "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." But for many people whose self-esteem has been suppressed, the revolution lies in reversing it: Do unto yourself as you would do unto others.
~ Gloria Steinem
Wine upon beer is very good cheer; beer upon wine consider with fear.
~ German proverb