Sequence Quotes - Page 17

• The Bible writers didn't care that they were bunching together sequences some of which were historical, some preposterous, and some downright manipulative. Faithful recording was not their business; faith was.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Bible, Faith, Historical

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• The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Mind, Argument

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.250, Delphi Classics

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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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• Women are exciting for this one reason - it is the secret of women's allure - women enjoy submission, being bound. This I bring out in the Paradise Island sequences where the girls beg for chains and enjoy wearing them. Because all of this is a universal truth, a fundamental subconscious feeling of normal humans, the children love it. That is why they like Wonder Woman on Paradise Island better than anywhere else.

  William Moulton Marston

  Girl, Children, Book

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• The more we study mind and matter scientifically the more we see that all things follow a natural sequence, a sequence as liable to work for our disadvantage as for our advantage. It flows like the water of a river, it falls like rain, it is as impartial as the sea. It is as innocent of malice as it is of compassion.

  Llewelyn Powys

  Rain, Fall, Compassion

  Llewelyn Powys (1961). “Llewelyn Powys: A Selection from His Writings”

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• For several years I've been writing 100-word pieces. More recently I've been putting them together in groups of two and three. I don't see them as sequences, but rather as companion pieces, the way that diptychs often work. The idea comes originally from the paintings of Michael Venezia who places blocks of painted wood next to each other. Proximity is a godsend. The quote is from Wallace Stevens.

  Jim Moore

  Block, Writing, Years

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• Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees. As the trees (apple, quince, plum, citrus, fig) age, and the brambles are shaded out, hoofed animals come to eat fallen fruit, and the mature trees (7 plus years old) are sufficiently hardy to withstand browsing. Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.

  Bill Mollison

  Animal, Years, Apples

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• Suppose that the organism is given the problem of determining the analysis of a stimulus at a certain level of representation - e.g., the problem of determining which sequence of words a given utterance encodes. Since, in the general case, transducer outputs underdetermine perceptual analyses, we can think of the solution of such problems as involving processes of nondemonstrative inference. In particular, we can think of each input system as a computational mechanism which projects and confirms a certain class of hyputheses on the basis of a certain body of data.

  Jerry Fodor

  Thinking, Data, Class

  "Wittgenstein, Mind, and Meaning". Book by Meredith Williams, 2002 edition.

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• Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relating the essential sequence of historical action and, qua history, to tell what happened, not why.

  Lloyd deMause

  Law, Historical, Essentials

  Lloyd DeMause (1975). “The New Psychohistory”, New York : Psychohistory Press

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• Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

  James Anthony Froude

  Merit, Inevitable, Carelessness

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• People think, 'Oh, well how can 'The Hobbit,' which is one book, become three films?' But you can take one line from an appendice and it turns into a whole sequence.

  Andy Serkis

  Book, Thinking, People

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• There are certain things in the scripts that need to be planned: you know, big stunt sequences, battle sequences... you can't improvise that stuff. You can improvise when there's just two of you standing in a kitchen and the most dramatic thing that's going to happen is someone's going to open the fridge.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Two, Kitchen, Battle

  "Archipelago - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Emotional, Singing, Hollywood

  "Interview: Amitabh Bachchan". Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 10, 2007.

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• In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

  Walter Gilbert

  Years, People, Lists

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• What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.

  Daniel Dae Kim

  Character, Three, Pieces

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.

  William Stafford

  Writing, Mind, Pieces

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• Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.

  Paul Gauguin

  Copying, Firsts, Sun

  Paul Gauguin (1985). “The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin”, p.95, Routledge

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• I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.

  Ansel Adams

  Fall, Taken, Past

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• I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.

  Douglas Trumbull

  Perception, Fields, Computer

  "Trumbull's vision". Interview with Jeff Greenwald, www.wired.com. January 1, 1997.

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• You don't even know the sequences to the Human-Gnome Project, you haven't come to terms with your God yet.

  Canibus

  Religious, Religion, Projects

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• We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments when someone did something for someone else, saved a life, bestowed a gift, gave something beyond what was required by circumstance.

  Thomas Cahill

  Pain, War, Blessed

  Thomas Cahill (2010). “Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World”, p.3, Anchor

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• The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and exits -- all are as formally arranged as an Elizabethan stage. Only the drama is shapeless, at least to those of us who have never seen a trial before. We see only random movements, sequences, comings and goings, no form or agenda apparent. To us the action is less like watching a play than watching an aquarium.

  Shana Alexander

  Drama, Aquariums, Play

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• A completed book exists in its entirety, although we humans read it in a time sequence from the beginning to the end. Just as an author does not write the first chapter, and then leave the others to write themselves, So God's creativity is not to seem as uniquely confined to, or even especially invested in, the event of the Big Bang. Rather his creativity has been seen as permeating equally all space and all time: his role as Creator and Sustainer merge.

  Russell Stannard

  Book, Writing, Creativity

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• If this is preparation for life, where in the world, where in the relationship with our colleagues, where in the industrial domain, where ever again, anywhere in life, is a person given this curious sequence of prepared talks and prepared questions, questions to which the answers are known?

  Edwin Land

  Thinking, Preparation, Answers

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