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Quotes About Sequence

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Don't put the cart before the horse.
~ John Heywood
The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace - the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.
~ Charles Brent
Thoughts are nothing but cause and effect.
~ Vaibhav Mukim, Logicops
Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.
~ Carl Sandburg
Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
~ John Podhoretz
Nietzsche: 'myth itself is a kind or style of thinking . It imparts an idea of the universe, but does it in the sequence of events, actions, sufferings.
~ William Everson
The point here is that runs of 4 or more heads or tails are perceived as a nonrandom pattern, when in fact they are in fact the rule in random sequences, not the exception. Stock market participants frequently make this mistake, and an entirely bogus field of finance known as "technical analysis" is devoted to finding patterns in random financial data.
~ William J. Bernstein
For each natural number N, will the guest in room number N please move immediately to room number N (N +1)/2.' Then they announce, 'For all natural numbers N and M, will the Nth passenger from the Mth train please go to room number [(N + M)2 + N – M/2.
~ David Deutsch
A good generic sequence to use for your asana practice is — Warm-ups, standing poses, inverted poses, backbends, forward bends and twists, ending with Savasana.
~ David Frawley
A logical argument and a story are two ways of putting fragments in proper relationship and guessing where the whole sequence leads and how it gets there. This is the logic-versus-narrative axis. Spectrum Law: The mind is in business to make sense. Up-spectrum, it makes sense by making logic. Down-spectrum, it makes sense by creating stories.
~ David Gelernter
The system is a drill, or set of steps, that is accomplished in sequence when approaching any hazard: 1. Select course 2. Look behind, signal, adjust speed 3. Change gear 4. Look behind again and signal again 5. Use your horn 6. Look behind again 7. Maneuver and accelerate
~ David L. Hough
Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
~ Ang Lee
Small crimes always precedes great ones.
~ Jean Racine
History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.
~ Terry Eagleton
Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
~ Steven Wright
Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.
~ Cary Grant
And with alphabetical irony Nigeria follows New Zealand
~ David Coleman
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
~ Jane Austen
The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.
~ Jane Smiley
Order Matters: Acknowledge Before Problem-Solving
~ Douglas Stone
The ultimate technological achievement will be escaping from the mess we've made. There will be none after that because we will reproduce everything that we did on earth, we'll go through the whole sequence all over again somewhere else, and people will read my paper as prophecy, and know that having gotten off one planet, they will be able to destroy another with confidence.
~ E.L. Doctorow
passage to a limit should always be the last operation, not the first.
~ E.T. Jaynes
Most people catch them breaching from the surface when they're shooting out of the water. I have them breaching from underwater in a 16-time sequence, a shark leaving the water and then reentering the water.
~ Michael Muller