Sequence Quotes

• The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

  Eudora Welty

  Life, Time, Order

  1984 One Writer's Beginnings, II. 'Learning to See'.

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• Everything you need comes to you in perfect time, space and sequence.

  Louise Hay

  Inspirational, Space, Perfect

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• Life isn't just a sequence of waiting for things to be done.

  Ze Frank

  Waiting, Done

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• There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.

  Kate Bush

  Strong, Connections, Patterns

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Accomplish, Leap

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1966). “Conversations and encounters”

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• The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.

  Jane Smiley

  Numbers, Different, Stories

  Jane Smiley (2011). “A Thousand Acres: A Novel”, p.155, Anchor

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• We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

  Edward de Bono

  Creativity, Order, Imagination

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• Error is ever the sequence of haste.

  Duke of Wellington

  Errors, Haste

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• The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.

  Allen Wheelis

  Suffering, Action, Insight

  Allen Wheelis (1970). “The desert”

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• The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Differences, Religion, Prophecy

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• Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.

  Carl Sandburg

  Moon, Light, Depth

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Relaxation, acceptance, and keeping open mind are key. First of all, peak performance isn't possible if one is not relaxed, and if one is going to stay relaxed they must simply accept problems when they arise and decide to solve them. If I can't do a move I merely accept that I haven't discovered the right sequence, instead of trying the same sequence over and over or just quitting. I will try to do it 20 or 30 different ways, making subtle changes in body position and fot placement, until I find something that does work. That's what I mean by keeping an open mind.

  Lynn Hill

  Moving, Mean, Acceptance

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• Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Experience, Stories

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of the adolescent is the death of the child.

  Arnaud Desjardins

  Baby, Children, Buddhism

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• The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Backyards, Should, Destination

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Greed, Investing

  Financial Review, 1985.

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• With free will, we can modify, to a certain extent the chain of karma that has been set in motion by the karma of the previous moment. That is what free will really is, the ability to alter the sequence of karmic fate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Fate, Free Will

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?

  Ernesto Sabato

  Life, Stars, Novelists

  Ernesto Sabato (2011). “The Tunnel”, p.48, Penguin UK

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• Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau days, imploded years. Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect, abjuring motivation, consistency, good sense.

  James Sallis

  Running, Memories, Motivation

  James Sallis (2012). “Black Hornet”, p.13, Oldcastle Books

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• It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.

  Thomas Nagel

  Together, Natural, Results

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.12, Oxford University Press

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• A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood or fancy. This rare harmony between object and user arises from the minimal skills required to manipulate a bound sequence of pages. Each piece of paper embodies a corresponding instant of time which remains frozen until liberated by the
  act of turning a page.

  John Maeda

  Book, Skills, Pieces

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• I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.

  Tony Gilroy

  Knowing, Action, Ifs

  "Bourne Legacy Cast Interview". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Research, Painting

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• I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no 'meaning' beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience.

  Joan Didion

  Cutting, Variables, Rooms

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.6, Zola Books

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• After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Choices, Add, Events

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.758, Vintage

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