Quotes About Passing The Baton

#1. Timing is a critical issue when it comes to succession. Passing the baton too early or too late could both cause irreparable damage. The timing just has to be right, but again you are responsible for creating or influencing the right conditions over the course of your leadership tenure.

Archibald Marwizi

#2. We must confront the reality that his [Donald Trump] comments have provoked, and consider whether we want to import such hatred to this country.

Tulip Siddiq

#3. I remember Bob Dylan saying in an interview that at a certain point he'd had to learn to do consciously what he'd previously done unconsciously or automatically. That resonates.

Peter Blegvad

#4. While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.

Robert Teeter

#5. It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

Jack Benny

#6. Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

Robert Breault

#7. I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won't lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age.

Ted Naifeh

#8. I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

Malcolm X

#9. They were jet, those wings, as deep as the sky, as black as Eoduin's hair - no, blacker, for they were dull, unoiled. They gave off no sheen in the light, no gleam to the eye. They drank up the light and diminished it: they were wings of pure shadow.

Meredith Ann Pierce

#10. In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.

Hayao Miyazaki

#11. You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

Marcus Du Sautoy

#12. But life here is not the end. Reality is more than we think it to be. There is another and greater reality that envelops this earthly one. Earth is not outside heaven, as the philosopher Peter Kreeft wrote; it is heaven's workshop, heaven's womb.

Gerald L. Sittser

#13. In his opinion the powers of the intellect held intimate connection with the capabilities of the stomach.

Edgar Allan Poe

#14. A relationship will only go as far as you both want it to.

Subhasis Das

#15. The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, had issued me a challenge as he passed the baton to the man in me: He had challenged me to have the courage to become a gentle, harmless man.

Pat Conroy

#16. When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.

Patricia Polacco

#17. To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?

Chip Heath

#18. Making an honest mistake is acceptable. Failing to fix it is not.

Ron Kaufman

#19. Generational change within a genre is hard to parse while it's happening. Only in retrospect can the passing of the baton from ancestors to progeny be clearly discerned.

Paul Di Filippo