Sequential Thinking Quotes

He takes the second step before the first

I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.

Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing.

If I had to write a rough draft, all the way through and then go back and start over, I probably would just stop writing. I wouldn't find that interesting. I would feel that I had committed so many things to the paper that I couldn't easily undo because one thing leads to the next, the interconnectedness, the sequences would make it very hard to change something that simply didn't work.

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.

True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after.

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

To me, we're living in a non-linear world... But the truth is we are linear creatures. Everything unfolds one after the next. And that's the thing we've become disconnected from.

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.

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

I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.

As a musician, you write and make music as you go. It's definitely in a great sequence. When you release songs, you think, "Let me make sure this goes with this so it's like a story."

ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.

The phrase that I use a lot is you've got to connect the dots and keep connecting them up to the finish.

For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start.

In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.

My brain kind of works in steps. I have to go through things and then process them and then write about them. I have to understand them first.

I have a very linear mind.

Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.