Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.

French Philosopher

Pablo Picasso

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

Spanish Painter

Mario Monti

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.

Italian Public Servant

Elie Ducommun

War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.

Swiss Activist

Mary Baker Eddy

Each successive period of progress is a period more humane and spiritual. The only logical conclusion is that all is Mind and its manifestation, from the rolling of worlds, in the most subtle ether, to a potato-patch.

American Theologian

Ricky Williams

The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.

American Football Player

Victor Hugo

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

French Author

Wietse Venema

At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

Dutch Scientist

Peter Orszag

Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting.

American Economist

Cafu

To be the first player in the world to take part in three successive World Cup finals is very important.

Use 'successive' to indicate items or events follow each other in time.

Chronological Order

'Successive' implies there are no gaps or interruptions between events or items.

No Interruption

Use 'successive' to emphasize repetition, especially in the case of remarkable achievements or failures.

Emphasizing Repetition

 Instead of cutting the mountain down to sea level, they would raise the sea up the mountain. The plan was to build massive steel gates separating the canal into multiple chambers with different water levels. As a ship passed through each successive gate would open, lowering the water level in the next chamber,

Demolition, disease, and...

 but occasionally also exhibits some new ones. And by repeating the cycle of selection and reproduction over and over again, we hope that we can breed successive generations of robots where, just like is often observed in biological evolution, each generation gets better than the last,

Self-Assembling Robots...

 and advised the Kosovo government. Independent Diplomat ended up advising three successive Kosovo prime ministers and the multi-party negotiation team of Kosovo. And Kosovo became independent. Independent Diplomat is now established in five diplomatic centers around the world,

Carne Ross: An...

 others but people like me actually continue to break new ground just by reaching successive birthdays well what happens to people like me after we largely stop taking medications our hospital visits become less frequent or even stopped altogether and we start to

What can cancer...

 It was street theater, open-air debates, fasting and feasting and toasting, parades and bonfires. During the 19th century, immigrants and urban political machines helped fuel this culture of voting. That culture grew with each successive wave of new voters.

There's no such thing as...

 with the sound traveling along rays perpendicular to these waves. Now imagine a moving sound source, such as a train whistle. As the source keeps moving in a certain direction, the successive waves in front of it will become bunched closer together.

The sonic boom problem -...

 We've got the best school award for three years successively. And our children are coming back home with bags full of medals, with lots of admirers and friends. Last year there were a couple of kids from elite schools that came

Shukla Bose: Teaching...

 Likewise, for an action to speed up, or accelerate, each successive change must be greater. Let's change the mechanical spacing of our animated bounce to reflect what we observed in the footage.

Animation basics: The...

 here the rusty patch bumblebee really is an amazing little animal Leopold said our ability to perceive quality in nature begin as an art with the pretty it expands through successive stages of

Saving Bumblebees Became...

 times permissible levels for bathing the Ganges and other Indian rivers are horrific ly polluted and successive Indian governments have failed to clean them up