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A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities.I failed history.

Adam Hastings

The turmoil in the boardroom and the goings-on with the CEO succession should dominate the agenda.

Debbie Wang

If Comcast bought Disney, it certainly negates all the discussion of a succession plan for Eisner.

David Mantell

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

The board and I have made succession planning a priority. Well, it paid off!

Leonard Roberts

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

Corita Kent

As an attacking force we were better than for some time. But our defending was dreadful, particularly our tackling, which allowed them three soft tries in succession.

Merfyn Hughes

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

Like a traveler encountering a succession of mountain ranges we found the scope of our project seeming to expand with every step we took.

David Redden

There is a historical pattern that everyone should be aware of because each of the past three newly appointed Fed chairman began their tenure with a quick succession of interest rate hikes.

David Rosenberg

It was the first meeting in a succession of meetings regarding the concerns that parents are having, defining how and what the school is going to be doing to make sure our children have clear and direct outcomes for their behavior.

Pam Lothrop

Certainly a lot of succession transactions occur at market value. Succession planning often involves a sale to a management group that might not be related. Sometimes it involves the outright sale of the company. An employee stock ownership plan is also an option.

Brent Carey

We'll be addressing quite directly the succession issue at the appropriate time. Right now is not the time.

David Westin

A lot businesses want to insure their value. Part of succession planning is asking the question, 'What if I drop dead before we get to complete value?' A business can insure the value of the business if it had got to maturity.

Carl Alongi

Sid and I have had a succession plan in place for the last five years. It?s not something decided a week ago or over dinner. It was a plan we all felt comfortable with. If someone can learn the easier way rather than the hard way, the whole company will benefit.

Dick Heimann

Life is a succession of moments, To live each one is to succeed.

Corita Kent

If you're Frank Lanza, you're getting on in years, you don't have a clear succession plan in place, and your share price may be as high as it's going to get. Why wouldn't you be thinking about selling?

Loren Thompson

I think it is a sad day for the company and we are going to miss him. But, typically of him, he has planned his own succession immaculately. We will have a dinner and a nice party for him.

Simon Wolfson

Opponents of changing the succession law...would like to see Masako divorced before it is revised, and a new crown princess found who might bear a male heir.

Miiko Kodama

Last year was a very strong network television year. 'Desperate Housewives' was the next show in a succession of hot, talked-about, pervasive network television programs.

David Poltrack

We agreed that from next meeting we will proceed with putting together a report that recommends expanding imperial succession to include females and their descendants.

Hiroyuki Yoshikawa

I expect the board to come out with a succession plan rather rapidly and possibly give us a date for when Eisner leaves.

Kevin Calabrese

No one will want to rush naming a new Crown Prince. The succession will be chosen by the family and will likely be one of Mohammed's sons.

Anthony Harris

Certain ambiguities in presidential succession.

Brian Baird

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood. He lived in a period prehistoric, When all was absurd and phantasmagoric. Born later, when Clio, celestial recorded, Set down great events in succession and order, He surely had seen nothing droll or fortuitous In anything here but the lies that.

Ambrose Bierce

Succession planning has been a major priority at Southwest for quite some time. We think we have come up with a winning combination of talent for our company reorganization.

Herb Kelleher

What I think was the most unfortunate thing was that it happened to be around the religious ceremony. Each ceremony has a significant meaning and have to be in succession. It was like having the pope cutting short his mass. We who participate in these ceremonies with a whole-heart commitment have a respect for that.

John Molina

Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly, and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties.

George Berkeley

With the Warner-Lambert merger completed, and having recently reached my 64th birthday, it is a good time to share with you my plans for retirement and for executive succession.

William Steere

Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

Carl Hubbell

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

This is a step toward hereditary succession of the president's position.

Muhammad Habib

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Max Planck

As a result of a very thorough succession planning process, we decided that naming Ron Williams CEO early in the year would provide for an orderly transition.

John W. Rowe

I got a very bad feeling about this guy. Something told me don't mess with this guy. They were 'bang, bang' like that, in rapid succession.

Robert Christenson

Kim . . . doesn't want foreign interference in succession, or for foreigners to try to cut deals with his chosen successor instead of himself.

Rodger Baker

The sum of measures is not going to be significant this time. Whatever the critics say, the chancellor has a strong record on the economy and he has no reason to endanger the succession.

Richard Brooks

What we wanted to do was make succession-planning a process for these companies rather than an event they have to deal with.

Charles Gallagher

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.

Gerald Vann

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

Jean Rhys

It's important for businesses to have this kind of layer of senior managers in terms of succession planning, so you don't have to scuttle around looking for replacements.

Tito Mboweni

The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.

Giordano Bruno

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

We were at a point in our careers where it was time to come up with a succession plan.

Rich Carnevale

The heart was knocked out of the yard when we lost our four biggest owners in quick succession.

William Jarvis

The CEO succession process from me to Ken has gone smoothly, and we have been able to move even more quickly than I anticipated, ... Ken has put in place the new organization structure and senior leadership team.

Harvey Golub

It was a succession of all of these pledge things from around the state that made us stop and say maybe we should try to get everybody on the same page about what the law says.

Richard Griffiths

Succession, use of outside boards, managing communication -- all of those are related to family businesses as well as private businesses.

Charles Gallagher

This change is part of the management succession process designed to ensure that our Company will continue to grow well into the future. Mike Hyatt has served ably as President and Chief Operating Officer for the past 18 months, demonstrating a deep understanding of the publishing and operational sides of our business, as well as an inspiring talent for leadership.

Sam Moore

Under the current law, a succession would become difficult in the future.

Hiroyuki Yoshikawa

Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.

Jane Austen

Bob has a terrific metabolism for that job, ... He may not have been the exciting choice, given all of the drama that surrounded the whole issue of succession. But I think he is absolutely the right choice. He knows that company inside and out.

Steven Bochco

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.

Claude Monet

What happens is that companies usually don't plan succession.

Charles Gallagher

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

Vicente Aleixandre

It's a princely fight for succession. There are some who suggest it is a cult of personality. Each one claims he was indicated to be the successor.

Elan Steinberg

I have every confidence in Ken's ability to successfully lead our company. This is the next step in a succession plan put in place some time ago.

Edward Crutchfield