Quotes About Sequence

History is not a series of causeless consequences. Event follows event in time, as minute follows minute in the day.

I must give the events in their proper sequence.

Post hoc, propter ergo hoc. After this, because of this.

Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded.

I was using very unconventional methods to sequence the telemetric DNA, originally.

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.

To me, we're living in a non-linear world... But the truth is we are linear creatures. Everything unfolds one after the next. And that's the thing we've become disconnected from.

Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bring forth children, why dost thou it not together, but one after another? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.

Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

I found that if I stack the moments correctly, people will believe in the most outrageous things.

There are some sequences in films that I think work filmicly, that stand out to me, but that's much more to do with the staging and the cutting and the mood of the thing as a sequence, the way everything comes together.

In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.

Nearly every notable event in 'Wake' has a date or a time stamp.

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

sequence, despite the voices adding real life.

Erst Kunst und dann Nusseis, das ist die richtige Reihenfolge.

time only exists to stop everything happening at once.

Objection 6: Further, evening and morning do not sufficiently divide the day, since the day has many parts. Therefore the words, "The evening and morning were the second day" or, "the third day," are not suitable. Objection 7: Further, "first," not "one," corresponds to "second" and "third." It should therefore have been said that, "The evening and the morning were the first day," rather than "one day.

When I came to know that I have to do a dance sequence with him, I was nervous. After all, he is Hrithik Roshan.

Creating a set list is like making a running order for an album. Certain things get pitted against one another that make more sense. One song sets another one off, or it might diminish it. You're just constantly looking for the next thing that's gonna make sense in a particular place.

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another.

Tres Cuatro y Cinco