#succession

There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now. ↗

— Julian Barbour

#call #could #everything #i #instant

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#distinct #drama #energy #epic #experiences

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

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

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

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

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. ↗

— Vicente Aleixandre

#poet #poetry #poses #questions #succession

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. ↗

— Helen Keller

#lessons #life is a #lived #must #succession

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant. ↗

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

#beginning #fleeting #learn #live #might