Succession Quotes

Juggling is an illusion. ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. ... It is actually task switching.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

For some people, there is no succession plan. They just leave, and there's no getting over it.

You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.

Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]

Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it ceaselessly gives birth to living individuals.

...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.

Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.

My entire career is a succession of things I did wrong and learned from.

In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.

Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

We recognize authority based on whether we feel we could attain authority by the rules by which the authority was obtained.

Creating the right mind-set and a positive attitude today, will help you to start crafting a clear plan of how you intend to make your life a success.

Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.

A leader, who divides his own people, contaminates his platform and begins to destroy his own territory.

Consider your will to be the vision of your influence on earth after you cease to be a part of it. Crafting a lasting legacy means you start planning and making it possible now.

Teach faith as a non-negotiable - What should your family be aware of? Why should they be aware of these things? How will they become aware? When and at what stages must they become aware?

Crowns are hourly tumbling.

Never put your business in the hands of one person or a select few. People leave. People die. People forget.