Successive Quotes

119 quotes by 105 authors

They [INTJs] are likely, however, to organize themselves out of a job. They cannot continually reorganize the same thing, and a finished product has no… — Isabel Briggs Myers
The shame of the U.S.S. Liberty incident is that our sailors were treated as though they were enemies, rather than the patriots and heroes that… — James Abourezk
But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about… — Lafcadio Hearn
Because parents are transients in the maternity care system, there is little cumulative birth experience over successive generations of mothers. Women giving birth don't make… — Elizabeth Noble
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful… — Charles Peguy
A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long… — Ambrose Bierce
One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation. — Fred Rogers
The king shall singly deliberate over secret matters; for ministers have their own ministers, and these latter some of their own; this kind of successive… — Chanakya
Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road… — Franz Liszt
Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at… — Bertrand Russell
Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier. — Jim Henson
All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or… — Swami Vivekananda
The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as… — Jacques Barzun
The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good and the evil… — Henry Thomas Buckle
I think at the moment we did not even want to break the seal [on the inner chamber of the tomb of Tutankhamen], for a… — Howard Carter
Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the… — Carl Jung
In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools alike, against the… — Walter Pater
If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy… — Idries Shah
There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that… — Idries Shah
The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man. — Horace

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