Succession Quotes

Succession Quote of the day

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them - the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

To live two days in succession on the same spiritual plane is a tragedy

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.

The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.

Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.

My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

Why do I need succession planning? Im very alert, Im very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.

That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession.

The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.

A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

It's not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool moments.

My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.

After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.

SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.

The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.

Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.

Succession planning has been a major priority at Southwest for quite some time. We think we have come up with a winning combination of talent for our company reorganization.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.