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Quotes About Sequential

I've always preferred comics that really rely on visual storytelling. It's what makes comics special. Otherwise, you're better off reading a novel.
~ Cliff Chiang
Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals.
~ Gene Luen Yang
Minutes died serially into hours. Bruno
~ Jonathan Lethem
We'd rather have satisfaction and the maximum titillation than real information, and so history, I insist to my good friend Steve Welch, isn't a cold sequential list of facts, it's a prize anthology of the best fiction.
~ Poe Ballantine
If you told me I was at number 34 Blake Street, I'd immediately think 'double 17.' If I was at number 37, I'd think 'five, double 16.'
~ Phil Taylor
Do not attempt too much at once.
~ Aesop
I used to think of the cartoons as a magazine within a magazine. First you go through and read all the cartoons, and then you go back and read the articles.
~ Roz Chast
Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon the convention of reading and the common cognitive disciplines. Indeed, it is this very voluntary cooperation, so unique to comics, that underlies the contract between artist and audience.
~ Will Eisner
History's just one darn thing after another.
~ Henry Ford
My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels.
~ Neal Adams
Comics have always been storyboards.
~ Dave Morris
It is also possible within sequential coding to measure the extent to which clinicians recognize and respond appropriately to change talk by enumerating clinician behaviors that immediately follow occurrences of client change talk (OARS; see Chapter 14).
~ William R. Miller
I had trouble following sequential directions, which was a problem because I was often left alone to complete complicated tasks. Most of my tasks were written down, and I did fairly well if I could do them in order. If something came up in the middle, which it often did, I would be thrown and unable to complete the remainder.
~ Dawn Prince-Hughes
I felt uncomfortable from the start because I had profound problems with following sequential directions, especially when they were spoken.
~ Dawn Prince-Hughes
As Stephen Covey (1992) puts it: I have long advocated a natural, gradual, day-by-day, step-by-step, sequential approach to personal development. My feeling is that any product or program—whether it deals with losing weight or mastering skills—that promises "quick, free, instant, and easy" results is probably not based on correct principles. (p. 29)
~ Richard Paul
All development is sequential and adaptive. Physical development unfolds in an orderly progression. Children first creep, then crawl, walk, run and hang from their knees or do cartwheels. Similarly, emotional growth unfolds sequentially and in stages.
~ Deborah D. Gray
When any distribution is locked into a rigid sequential format it develops Joes that dictate what new changes will be allowed and what will not, and that rigidity is deadly.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
We process outcomes sequentially, treating each outcome as if it stands alone. We don't sit back and wait to update our beliefs until we have enough data to overcome the uncertain relationship between outcomes and decisions.
~ Annie Duke
Because of the one-pointed Time awareness in which the conventional mind remains immersed, humans tend to think of everything in a sequential, word-oriented framework. This mental trap produces very short-term concepts of effectiveness and consequences, a condition of constant, unplanned response to crises. —LIET-KYNES THE ARRAKIS WORKBOOK
~ Frank Herbert
With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.
~ Simon McBurney
Action and reaction are equal and opposite, and are expressed simultaneously. Sequentially they are repeated in reverse, the reaction becoming the action and the action the reaction.
~ Walter Russell
The tension of constructing an explanation, from A to B to C to D, apparently so simple a task, irritates many people with ADD. While they can hold the information in mind, they do not have the patience to sequentially put it out. That is too tedious. They would like to dump the information in a heap on the floor all at once and have it be comprehended instantly. Otherwise, as Douglas says, it's just not worth the effort. It's too boring.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
Someone said once, "If you want to fill a dozen milk bottles, you must not stand back and spray them with a hose. You can get them wet, but you won't fill them. You must take them one by one.
~ Anthony M. Coniaris
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
~ Margaret Halsey