Quotes about Sequence

It's weird - on almost every film I've worked on, the first sequence we storyboard ends up being the first sequence that goes into animation, and ends up being almost shot-for-shot the same. Votes: 3

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps. Votes: 2

There's nothing worse than a dream sequence done all in post-production. Votes: 2

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just. Votes: 2

Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting. Votes: 2

The oil sequence was about two or three days. It was very cold and was snowing. Votes: 2

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy. Votes: 2

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system. Votes: 2

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. Votes: 2

The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time. Votes: 2

Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical information about how to optimize your wellness. Votes: 2

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album. Votes: 2

A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library. Votes: 2

All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are no fossils in the wrong place. Votes: 2

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. Votes: 2

For me, I like to have explosive moments, whether it is a particular movement itself in the whole sequence. I like to have shocking moments; for audiences to feel, like, 'Whoa!' It's always been my forte. Votes: 2

The true scientist no longer attempts to disprove the pull of gravity, or the rotation of the earth, or the motion of heavenly bodies, or the sequence of the seasons, or man's need of food and water, or the function of the heart. Votes: 2

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased. Votes: 2

I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil. Votes: 2

Everwood' I think provides a unique feeling, an emotional experience. And other shows on TV don't have the acting talent to do that. Each one of our actors can do a serious scene and a humorous scene, and can do it all within the same sequence. They can go from a heartbreaking moment to a humorous moment. Votes: 2

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. Votes: 1

Error is ever the sequence of haste. Votes: 0

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence. Votes: 0

The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change. Votes: 0

Obviously, movies don't almost ever shoot in sequence. Votes: 0

Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion. Votes: 0

A split second can ruin or boost the sequence. Votes: 0

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions. Votes: 0

And now the sequence of events in no particular order. Votes: 0

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors. Votes: 0

Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure? Votes: 0

Life isn't just a sequence of waiting for things to be done. Votes: 0

I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man. Votes: 0

Everything you need comes to you in perfect time, space and sequence. Votes: 0

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence. Votes: 0

An image can only be one element in constructing a sequence of understanding. Votes: 0

Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome. Votes: 0

Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping. Votes: 0

The severity of the law of God is the necessary sequence of his infinite love. Votes: 0

My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence). Votes: 0

Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps. Votes: 0

One of the big things in television these days is there's no main title sequence anymore. Votes: 0

Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence. Votes: 0

Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap. Votes: 0

Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars? Votes: 0

I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me. Votes: 0

Sometimes making people laugh or even making them scared can be accomplished by a good opening sequence. Votes: 0

A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display. Votes: 0

By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine. Votes: 0

If there isn't a sequence of 15 previous passes, a good transition between attack and defence is impossible. Impossible. Votes: 0

The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories. Votes: 0

The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible Votes: 0

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it. Votes: 0

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it Votes: 0

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time. Votes: 0

To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye. Votes: 0

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable. Votes: 0

The drawings need to be strong enough to stand alone, and not just work as part of a sequence. Votes: 0

A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion. Votes: 0

Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made. Votes: 0

Love happens! I release the desperate need for love, and instead, allow it to find me in the perfect time-space sequence. Votes: 0

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Votes: 0

I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse. Votes: 0

Different viral species contain nucleic acids that differ not only in length and nucleotide sequence but in many unexpected ways as well. Votes: 0

A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself. Votes: 0

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud. Votes: 0

When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people. Votes: 0

Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities. Votes: 0

The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence. Votes: 0

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence. Votes: 0

Man's true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities. Votes: 0

A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root. Votes: 0

Where timber vegetation is ruthlessly destroyed, aridity and its sequence sterility will prevail and the hotter the climate, the more to be dreaded. Votes: 0

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences. Votes: 0

What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny. Votes: 0

The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day. Votes: 0

I relax and enjoy life. I know that whatever I need to know is revealed to me in the perfect time and space sequence. Votes: 0

The study of the amino acid sequence around the disulphide bonds of the immunoglobulins was my own short-cut to the understanding of antibody diversity. Votes: 0

The biggest challenge is not coming up with the stunt, the biggest challenge is designing a sequence around it that sort of justifies its existence. Votes: 0

The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges. Votes: 0

The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure. Votes: 0

Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence. Votes: 0

Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both. Votes: 0

Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey). Votes: 0

Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles. Votes: 0

The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace - the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process. Votes: 0

But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked. Votes: 0

It's great when somebody is able to communicate an actual shot sequence to you and you know the world you're inhabiting with that. It's literally a haunting tune. Votes: 0

That's a big battle to win, to be able to do a main title sequence and a theme song these days. That's not something network television does anymore. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. Votes: 0

It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule. Votes: 0

What I'm talking about is the order of deportation, the sequence of deportation. It is almost impossible to move 11 million illegal immigrants overnight. You do it in steps. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. Votes: 0

Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence. Votes: 0

Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact. Votes: 0

Like last night I had a sequence with a gun and, to be honest, for me to be threatening with a gun and not be comical is quite hard. Votes: 0

Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once totally logical and perfectly irrational? Votes: 0

We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of humans had been completed by the Human Genome Project.] Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Basically, I composed the musical structure in one pass. The rest was editing and small adjustments. And when the play was read by actors with the music, the sequence timed-out perfectly. Votes: 0

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images. Votes: 0

When it came time to sequence the album, the new arrangements really demanded a different order. They were so different than they were before that the old sequence didn't work anymore. Votes: 0

Sicily has suffered 13 foreign dominations from which she has taken both the best and the worst. The sequence of different cultures has made Sicily a fascinating place, quite unlike any other. Votes: 0

Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities. Votes: 0

Ice Age' felt like stage acting. You'd write a sequence, and sometimes you'd submit pages, but other times, I would actually perform it for the directors and producer in my office. Votes: 0

Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it. Votes: 0

In the Fragments, sensations are more profound and richly clarified through deliberate and explicit pattern; emotions are given a sequence and development such as the exigencies of practical life rarely permit. Votes: 0

We're collecting about 100,000 telomere lengths in saliva samples and then looking at how those relate to both the extensive longitudinal clinical records that Kaiser is collecting and the genome sequence variations. Votes: 0

Being at one with everything just means accepting that the future is always going to be unsure and learning to find ways to be okay with the uncontrollable sequence of events. Votes: 0

I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague, more than ever. Votes: 0

Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color. Votes: 0

Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color. Votes: 0

Programming language is very specific to instructing a computer to do a particular structure of a sequence. It's the very way you tell the machine what you want it to do. Votes: 0

Time in the heart and sequence in the brain-- Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine. And let us then take godhead by the neck-- And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric. Votes: 0

It's much easier to do a fight sequence between two people, if one of the two people in the fight is a stunt person, or you're going to risk somebody getting hurt. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If one compares the sequence of amino acids that go to form the protein haemoglobin, it becomes apparent that humans and chimps are identical and do not differ in a single site ... Votes: 0

Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the sequence of a kata in karate is useless. Votes: 0

Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There is in that film, too, but it's out of sequence. Votes: 0

The scary thing is that sometimes you are wrapping up animation on a sequence and you don't know how the movie ends or begins. You just have to bluff and move forward. Votes: 0

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization. Votes: 0

Cinematic and symphonic: this is a compelling story revealed in a sequence of voices that are as pitch-perfect as they are irresistible. This is a wonderfully impressive debut: tender, muscled and unforgettable. Votes: 0

'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There is in that film, too, but it's out of sequence. Votes: 0

A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here. Votes: 0

I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them. Votes: 0

How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons. Votes: 0

You come back to the beginning. That's why in the "Searching for the Ox" sequence, at the very end of that sequence of the Zen paintings, we're back in the world again. Votes: 0

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence. Votes: 0

Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

On working with director Werner Herzog: I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague. Votes: 0

I guess the idea of doing albums in their entirety, in sequence, appeals to people. I guess it's the memory of being able to hear the music in the way it was originally presented. Votes: 0

There are epic impulses everywhere you look in There Will Be Blood; what's missing is character development, focused storytelling and, most significantly (apart from that terrific opening sequence), any sense of raw, intuitive drama. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie. Votes: 0

High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor . . . Votes: 0

The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a genetic engineer. That was my goal in college. I wanted to figure out what the codon sequence was that causes replication in a cardio myopathic virus. That was my goal. Votes: 0

My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence. Votes: 0

That movie [War for the Planet of the Apes] is incredibly engaging; it's what drives the emotion of all these films. So tonight, we're going to show a long sequence that's actually going to be. Votes: 0

Sometimes I will click on a random sequence of notes- not to actually use it in a song, but to see if I can find maybe a simple pattern that I can build off of. Votes: 0

I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Attention, learning, and problem solving depend in part on the ability to plan and sequence actions and ideas. The Interactive Metronome(R) helps individuals systematically exercise and often improve basic motor planning and sequencing capacities. Votes: 0