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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life
Key
Life Is A
Must
Another
Understood
Which
Succession
Riddle
Lessons
Lived
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
Time
Nature
Morning
Progress
Own
Every
Changes
Every Time
Mark
Easy
Scarcely
Some
Gives
Beauties
Gentle
Cradle
Succession
Season
Grave
Night
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
Lewis Mumford
Life
Truth
Day
Beauty
Spent
Sight
Mystery
Perfection
Days
Contemplation
Without
Sound
Human
Human Life
Succession
Search
Fatal
Sometimes in your career, you are at the right place at the right moment. But you have to be aware that eventually you may no longer be the right person for that position. So build your succession and foster for it while you are still at the peak of you career.
Joanne Liu
You
Right Person
Sometimes
Build
Right Moment
Right Place
Longer
Still
Person
May
Place
While
Succession
Your
Moment
Foster
Aware
Eventually
Peak
Right
Career
Position
You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
You
People
Will
King
Meet
Once
Arabia
Exactly
Know
Elect
Body
Succession
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
Honore de Balzac
Life
You
Mother
Fears
Long
Dramas
See
Tender
Hour
Joys
Terrible
Succession
Now
Soft
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
J. Donald Walters
Happiness
Be Happy
Struggle
Happy
Anxiety
Brilliant
Long
Simply
Climax
Years
Decisions
Grim
Little
Succession
Moment
We have very strong succession plans across all group companies. But we do not comment on it. The retirement age is 60 years, but it does not apply to family professionals who work in the business.
Adi Godrej
Work
Family
Business
Age
Strong
Group
Retirement
Retirement Age
Does
Years
Comment
Very
Across
Succession
Plans
Who
Companies
Professionals
Apply
'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't wait for the next one.
Cecily von Ziegesar
You
Gossip
Wait
Girl
Out
Rapid
Had
Over
Gossip Girl
Always
Came
Years
Endings
Suspenseful
Next
Succession
Two
Happy are those few nations that have not waited till the slow succession of human vicissitudes should, from the extremity of evil, produce a transition to good; but by prudent laws have facilitated the progress from one to the other!
Cesare Beccaria
Good
Happy
Progress
Evil
Slow
Few
Other
Those
Extremity
Laws
Till
Waited
Prudent
Human
Nations
Transition
Produce
Should
Succession
I'm interested in where I'm going and the people I am there to see. Going to Cuba was a great example of that, and the succession of going into Cuba, which is not a very easy place to get into, and playing music for people who have never seen a live rock concert outdoors like that.
Chris Cornell
Music
Great
People
Example
Seen
Live
Great Example
Easy
Outdoors
See
Never
Like
Concert
Cuba
Rock
Am
Very
Get
Going
Where
Place
Which
Interested
Succession
Who
Playing
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
Claude Vorilhon
History
Mistakes
Glorious
Nothing
Our
Ancestors
About
Simply
Call
Succession
Violations
Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning.
Denise Morrison
Corporations
Potential
Performance
Involve
Most
Discussions
Manager
Processes
Succession
Your
Planning
The first phase of C was - really, it was two phases in short succession of, first, some language changes from B, really adding the type structure without too much change in the syntax, and doing the compiler. The second phase was slower; it all took place within a very few years, but it was a bit slower, so it seemed.
Dennis Ritchie
Change
Language
Too Much
First
Few
Too
Changes
Took
Type
Adding
Syntax
Bit
Slower
Some
Seemed
Structure
First Phase
Within
Without
Doing
Years
Very
Short
Place
Much
Really
Succession
Phase
Second
Phases
Two
The Book of Mormon is a second witness of Jesus Christ and a manifestation of the truthfulness of the Prophet Joseph Smith. I love the Prophet Joseph. I love President Gordon B. Hinckley, who is the prophet of God and holds all the keys of the kingdom at this time, keys which prophets have held in uninterrupted succession since Joseph Smith.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Love
God
Time
Book
Witness
Christ
President
Keys
Kingdom
Prophet
Prophets
Mormon
Joseph
Since
Gordon
Smith
Truthfulness
Holds
Which
Manifestation
Held
Succession
Who
Jesus
Second
Jesus Christ
Abby Johnson has agreed to become Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity, reflecting a further step forward in our leadership succession plan. Abby will retain her role of President, and I will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.
Edward Johnson, III
Leadership
Will
Become
President
Our
Further
Johnson
Retain
Step
Step Forward
Executive
Continue
Reflecting
Chief
Chief Executive
Role
Officer
Board
Fidelity
Plan
Succession
Forward
Agreed
Chairman
Serve
Her
The destruction of Chinese traditional culture didn't start in 1949. It started long before that, with the succession of revolutions. It was particularly bad during the Cultural Revolution, the destruction of traditional Chinese culture.
Gao Xingjian
Culture
Destruction
Long
Before
Revolution
Bad
Particularly
Traditional
Cultural
Revolutions
Chinese
Chinese Culture
Succession
Start
Started
Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Together
Mind
Other
Immediate
Ease
Mutually
Direction
Proportional
Developed
Simultaneously
Ideas
Greater
Frequency
Were
Been
Same
Reproduce
Which
Succession
Certainty
Original
Each
I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.
Hugh Hefner
Marriage
Nothing
Musicals
Admired
Gene
Dated
Since
Comedies
Blondes
End
Very
Influenced
Romantic
Romantic Comedies
Which
Explains
Succession
Why
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
Jean Rhys
Age
More
Seldom
Smoothly
Quickly
Often
Succession
Jerks
Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.
Jerry Saltz
You
Hate
Events
Group
Giant
Distorting
Rapid
Like
Them
Organisms
Succession
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 Dalberg-Acton
Success
Time
World
Past
Action
Shake
Struggled
Dead
Verdict
Reverse
Off
Shocks
Nations
Succession
Rescue
Series
Reign
Violent
I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.
John Nelson Darby
Grace
Channels
Only
Held
Succession
Apostolic
Fully
The industry has to learn how to do CEO succession well. If your definition of success is Intel or Microsoft or HP or IBM, that's not a good track record, and yet they are the most successful ones.
John T. Chambers
Success
Good
Definition
Record
Most
Well
Track
Industry
Learn
Track Record
How
Intel
Microsoft
CEO
Success Is
Successful
Succession
Your
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.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Time
Rapidly
One Thing
All Things
Slowly
Road
Endures
Anything
Which
Succession
Fast
Grows
Thing
Things
Royal
Royal Road
Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist?
Lactantius
Sex
Other
Immortal
About
Since
Always
Exist
Gods
Eternal
Themselves
Require
Succession
Therefore
Need
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