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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.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
| About:
Creativity
| Keywords:
creativity, particular, sequence, set free, set up, structures, temporary, The Sequence
«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.»
Author: Eudora Welty
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Events
| Keywords:
continuous, Order The, revelation, sequence, significance, The Sequence, thread
«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.»
Author: Eudora Welty
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Experience,
Writing
| Keywords:
Cause and Effect, discovering, happenings, novel, one way, sequence, stumbling, The Sequence
«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.»
«We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
anesthetized, chronological, chronological sequence, convenient, dates, here and there, paste, pasted, ripple, rippled, ripples, rippling, sequence, spiral, spiraling, spirals, table, The Sequence
«The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible»
«What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
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«This life as you live it now and have lived it, you will have to live again and again, times without number, and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and all the unspeakably small and great in your life must return to you and everything in the same series and sequence -- and in the same way this spider and this moonlight among the trees, and this same way this moment and I myself. The eternal hour glass of existence will be turned again and again -- and you with it, you dust of dust!»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
again and again, Among the, Among the Living, dust, glass, life eternal, moonlight, Return to, sequence, series, sigh, small number, spider, The Eternal, The Sequence, This Life, turned, unspeakably
«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.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Creativity,
Movies
| Keywords:
configuration, configurations, connections, sequence, sheer, speeding, structure, the movie, The Sequence
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