Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession…

As during the time of kings it would have been naive to think that the king's firstborn son would be the fittest to rule,…

— J. M. Coetzee

There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.

— Leanda de Lisle

Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.

— Peter Drucker

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

— J. G. Holland

But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference…

— Robert Benchley

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…

— Bernard Baruch

Why should it be thought incredible that the same soul should inhabit in succession an indefinite number of moral bodies? Even during this one…

— Francis Bowen

My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that…

— Walter Murch

There are three processes every company has to have: Somehow you've got to set strategies; you've got to have a budget, so you need…

— Noel Tichy

Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully worshipped from…

— Lon Milo DuQuette

Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like…

— Joseph Sobran

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

— Voltaire

I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass.…

— Lydia Lunch

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 horror movies…

— Ehren Kruger

The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

— Sara Sheridan