#succession

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. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#away #character #done #during #i

Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning. ↗

— Denise Morrison

#discussions #involve #manager #most #performance

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

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

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

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. ↗

— Jane Austen

#life #quick #seems #succession

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

— Sheldon Adelson

#i #intention #need #planning #retire

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. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#concerned #distribution #entropy #given #hand

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#changes #cradle #easy #every #every time

But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession. ↗

— Lactantius

#god #immortal #need #nor #sex