Quotes About Sequence

A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

I wanted to be a genetic engineer. That was my goal in college. I wanted to figure out what the codon sequence was that causes replication in a cardio myopathic virus. That was my goal.

They sat there in ascending order of age and stupidity.

For first must give place to last, because last must have its time to come; but last gives place to nothing; for there is not another to succeed.

Something happens and then something else happens and then all sorts of other things happen, expected and unexpected, unusual and ordinary.

There are many ways you can enlighten your customers, including long-form copy toward the bottom of your website in a lead generator, a live event, an email sequence, or even a video.

If a positive scene followed by a negative scene is how enthralling movies work, then why not follow the same formula on our website?

Finally, you ask them to make a commitment with a sales email sequence.

Once you know the formulas, you can predict the path most stories will take.

Things happened, he knew, because other things had happened.

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Then, although it was still the end of the story, I put it at the beginning of the novel, as if I needed to tell the end first in order to go on and tell the rest.

Then, although it was still the end of the story, I put it at the beginning of the novel, as if I needed to tell the end first in order to go on and tell the rest. It would have been simpler to begin at the beginning, but the beginning didn't mean much without what came after, and what came after didn't mean much without the end.

Our lives are in chronological order, if no other kind of order.

I am going down first. Of course you're going down first, you're the guy.

Business first, then pleasure.

My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.

Before this insight, one might have been tempted to think of evolution as a completely random walk across a fitness landscape, in other words a series of steps in multidimensional sequence space where no region is more likely to be explored than any other region. But it turns out that, due to the power of selection and quasispecies, there are biases in evolution's walk through the genetic possibilities of life.

this was to be only the first of a kaleidoscopic sequence of murderous events in her country.

The only reason for something to happen in a novel is that it's the perfect thing to have happen at that time.

Men of conservative temperament have long suspected that one thing leads to another.

In English, the name of every number shares a letter with each neighbor. One shares an O with two, which shares a T with three, which shares an R with four, which shares an F with five, which shares an I with six—and so on indefinitely.

When a man is asleep, he has in a circle round him the chain of the hours, the sequence of the years, the order of the heavenly host.

One thing late or early can disrupt everything around it, and the disturbance runs outward in bands like the waves from a dropped stone in a quiet pool.