Sequence Quotes - Page 9

• The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.

  Karl Pearson

  Science, Feelings, Mind

  Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

  Robert Wyatt

  Song, Travel, Adventure

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• Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Memories, Men, Practice

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• Hockey is an art. It requires speed, precision, and strength like other sports, but it also demands an extraordinary intelligence to develop a logical sequence of movements, a technique which is smooth, graceful and in rhythm with the rest of the game.

  Jacques Plante

  Sports, Art, Hockey

  "One on One with Jacques Plante". Legends of Hockey.net, May 24, 2005.

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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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• The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth, relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity.

  Christopher Alexander

  Mistake, Simple, Differences

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• An image can only be one element in constructing a sequence of understanding.

  Germano Facetti

  Design, Understanding, Elements

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• This book could scare them. The sex, the violence, the dream sequences and the iconoclasm - I think a lot of people are uncomfortable with that. I understand that. It was very uncomfortable to write some of it

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Dream, Sex

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• Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder.

  Richard Benyo

  Running, Climbing, Order

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• It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.

  Aimee Bender

  Life, Sadness, Loss

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• The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with regime; the anarch passes through their sequence - as inoffensively as possible - like a suite of rooms. This is the recipe for anyone who cares more about the substance of the world than its shadow - the philosopher, the artist, the believer.

  Ernst Junger

  Artist, Safety, Political

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• With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined into great unitary harmonies, actions which in their sequence one upon another constitute in their continuity what may be termed the 'behaviour'.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Simple, Behaviour, May

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• All revolutionary advances in science may consist less of sudden and dramatic revelations than a series of transformations, of which the revolutionary significance may not be seen (except afterwards, by historians) until the last great step. In many cases the full potentiality and force of a most radical step in such a sequence of transformations may not even be manifest to its author.

  I. Bernard Cohen

  Science, May, Lasts

  I. Bernard Cohen (1983). “The Newtonian Revolution”, p.162, Cambridge University Press

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• It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Art, Reform, Strategy

  "No Third Way Out: An Interview with Vaclav Klaus". Interview with John Fund, reason.com. June 1, 1990.

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• I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is.

  John Woo

  Evil, Messages, Violence

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• I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teen-age beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Beach, Night, Anxiety

  John Kennedy Toole (1980). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.114, Dubois Publishing

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• What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny.

  Sven Birkerts

  Reading, Destiny, Ideas

  Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.101, Macmillan

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• Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can. People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.

  Terry Pratchett

  Powerful, Moving, Thinking

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• It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and begins to demand expression. It is like childbirth. The poet has nothing to be proud of. He is not master of the situation, but a servant. Creative work is his only possible form of existence, and his every work is like a deed he has no power to annul. For him to be aware that the sequence of such deeds is due and ripe, that it lies in the very nature of things, he has to have faith in the idea; for only faith interlocks the system of images for which read system of life.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Mistake, Lying, Artist

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• When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Play, Imagination, Feelings

  "Four Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman" by Ingmar Bergman, (Introduction), 1960.

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• I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication... Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously...

  Lee De Forest

  Communication, Kitchen, Fields

  "Dawn of the Electronic Age" by Lee De Forest, blog.modernmechanix.com. January 1952.

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• In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

  Maurice Jarre

  Stay Strong, Men, Long

  "Maurice Jarre" by Patrick O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2009.

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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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• I think I have an obligation, to the people who have consented to be in the film, to make a film that is fair to their experience. The editing of my films is a long and selective process. I do feel that when I cut a sequence, I have an obligation to the people who are in it, to cut it so that it fairly represents what I felt was going on at the time, in the original event. I don't try and cut it to meet the standards of a producer or a network or a television show.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Cutting, Thinking, Editing

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