There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick… — Henry L. Stimson Copy Share Image
It is hardly plausible to view a whole succession of logics as an evolutionary and functional program of innate wiring, particularly in… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly,… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
If one drops dead in the street, friends and loved ones are shocked, stricken, but a long lingering death loses all nobility… — Alanna Knight Copy Share Image
The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning. — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
Purposeful organizations develop the next generation, not simply the next leader. My friend Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author and leading executive coach, does… — John Baldoni Copy Share Image
Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was sufficient, and species may have… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Why should it be thought incredible that the same soul should inhabit in succession an indefinite number of moral bodies? Even during… — Francis Bowen Copy Share Image
Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
Magnus had been alive hundreds of years himself, and yet the simplest things could turn a day into a jewel, and a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I think every responsible public board at every board meeting should be discussing succession. And, of course, Walmart has a very mature… — Mike Duke Copy Share Image
Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable… — Frank Schatzing Copy Share Image
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God had infinite time to give us… He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing… — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
The ancient practice of allowing land to remain fallow for a season is now exploded, and a succession of different crops found… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall… — Plato Copy Share Image
As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's about the economic situation and sometimes it's about the fear of others. Sometimes it's about protecting the generally accepted values.… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
What a wonderful song, she thought-everything was wonderful tonight, most of all this romantic scene in the den with their hands clinging… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
As during the time of kings it would have been naive to think that the king's firstborn son would be the fittest… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
For me, it's very easy to write a horror movie that's just a succession of scary sequences, but it's hard to find… — Ehren Kruger Copy Share Image
There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live… — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
