#succession

The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#core #departments #experience #get #government

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed. ↗

— Corita Kent

#each #life is a #live #moments #succeed

I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between. ↗

— Darrell Royal

#day #days #i #play #space

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. ↗

— Wallis Simpson

#around #challenge #compelling #each #emotionally

We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#atomic #atomic bomb #before #being #blows

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. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#highest #lesson #management #plan #possible

You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#body #comes #elect #exactly #king

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. ↗

— J. G. Holland

#anything #endures #fast #grows #one thing

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead. ↗

— John Acton

#dead #nations #off #past #reign

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

— Jean Rhys

#arrives #jerks #more #often #quickly