Sequence Of Events 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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• 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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• There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself, sense into the story. In other words, you were not walking before you were born and you were not doing X and Y before you did something else first. So there's a sequencing of events that imposes a certain structure to the story.

  Antonio Damasio

  Firsts, Events, Stories

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

  Terry Pratchett

  Events, Violence, Preference

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• It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life

  Franz Boas

  Events, Tasks, Differentiation

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• Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.

  Elizabeth George

  Character, Events, Plot

  Elizabeth George (2011). “Write Away: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

  Dan Rather

  Stupid, Silly, Order

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• The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Events, World

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.233, Princeton University Press

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• Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Believe, Character

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• A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.

  Edward Sapir

  Age, Events, Legends

  Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.395, Univ of California Press

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• Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Trying, Events, Remember

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• I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is bound to show why it is more irreligious to explain the origin of man as a distinct species by descent from some lower from, through the laws of variation and natural selection, than to explain the birth of the individual through the laws of ordinary reproduction. The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Law, Mind

  Charles Darwin (1883). “The Descent of Man and Seletion in Relation to Sex”, p.613, Рипол Классик

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• For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. Neither the religion of fear nor the social-moral religion can have any hold on him.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Real, Law

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.233, Princeton University Press

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• For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces, however, will have been set in motion beyond the reckoning of the senses. Sequences of events from the corners of the world will draw gradually together, and miracles of coincidence bring the inevitable to pass.

  Joseph Campbell

  Heart, Destiny, Agony

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.196, New World Library

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• Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences, whilst the historian of man is constantly at fault as to dates and even the sequence of events, to say nothing of the contradicting statements which he is forced to reconcile.

  Roderick Murchison

  Science, Men, Events

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• Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet there are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Fate, Cutting, Events

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “A Bend In The Road”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.

  Chris Gardner

  Mother, Events, Welfare

  Chris Gardner (2009). “The Pursuit of Happyness”, p.21, Harper Collins

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