Non Sequential Quotes

#1. Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row.

Barry Hughart

#2. Polite conversation followed rules. Topics were sequential, orderly, and flowed from one to the next like a gentle current when all those conversing were skilled.

Kresley Cole

#3. Many of the most profound discoveries were reported to have come through intuition rather than sequential analysis processed by linguistic understanding.

Ilchi Lee

#4. As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming instead of being. Beyond time, we are all one.

Richard Bach

#5. Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Eric Maskin

#6. You should not follow me nor i should follow you. Cause if you or i did that, we will end up in the same place

Anthony Castillo

#7. almost every scholar who has grappled with the question of what reading does to one's habits of mind has concluded that the process encourages rationality; that the sequential, propositional character of the written word fosters what Walter Ong calls the "analytic management of knowledge.

Neil Postman

#8. In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.

Daniel H. Pink

#9. Today there could be laughter and freedom, but soon the magic would end and they would have to go back to the real world. However, there would still always be time to get under Dak's skin.

Alyson Serena Stone

#10. If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you, and not die, you've got to work to a pretty precise standard.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#11. The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.

Stephen Richards

#12. In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them.

Eric Maskin

#13. With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.

Simon McBurney

#14. Education is the great engine to personal development.

Nelson Mandela

#15. Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals.

Gene Luen Yang

#16. Sharon has subverted the whole process by turning it into something sequential and conditional and, of course, by making himself the interpreter of the road map,

Hanan Ashrawi

#17. When any distribution is locked into a rigid sequential format it develops Joes that dictate what new changes will be allowed and what will not, and that rigidity is deadly.

Robert M. Pirsig

#18. One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.

Lukas Haas

#19. It is a very ill omen to hear a wicked world clap its hands and shout "Well done" to the Christian man.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#20. A good scientist (DT quoted Einstein) will acknowledge that more than 50% of scientific breakthroughs are reached through post-rationalised ideas, not through sequential logic.

Rory Sutherland

#21. When you're doing a live-action movie, you have your day set up and you're going to do this shot and this shot, and eventually the sun is going to go down. It's a sequential race to whatever is going to end the day.

Wes Anderson

#22. Though I thought there weren't any words any more, only fucking signifiers. And since texts have no objective univocal meaning, I feel sure that when I call you a bunch of moronic cunts you will be able to decode that sequence of sequential signifiers with the appropriate emancipated subjectivity.

Jonathan Lynn

#23. Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

Margaret Halsey

#24. If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

Idries Shah

#25. In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.

Graham Swift

#26. Both parties accept this vision. But we can reach it only if we move rapidly and in parallel on all fronts. The so-called 'sequential' approach has failed.

Kofi Annan

#27. Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn't grow out of either of our species' two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

Scott McCloud

#28. Success is sequential, not simultaneous

Gary W. Keller

#29. The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.

Nick Clegg