Accumulative Quotes & Sayings

I started using Notes [on my iPhone] but I do a lot of hand written notes. It's a very slow, accumulative thing. — Sue Tompkins

Life is accumulative - Either our errors accumulate to what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get. — Jim Rohn

He who chooses to be a master never does 'just enough' to get by - nor does he cut corners or attempt to cheat the system. He who chooses mastery lives his life asking, 'How can I do more, give more, be more, and thereby accelerate the achievement of my ultimate destiny? — James Arthur Ray

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing. — George Bernard Shaw

I think music is just a wonderful ingredient that helps us understand a scene better. And certainly you can overuse music, and you can use the wrong music. I probably have been guilty of these things over time. But if you use music correctly as a friend of the theme, a friend of the narrative, ou can lend some terrific connective tissue to a film. — Jonathan Demme

Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss. — Stephen Jay Gould

I aint drinkin after no mule, said the hermit. Have you not got no old bucket nor nothin? — Cormac McCarthy

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group. — Gloria Steinem

We spend more per pupil than any other country, but among industrialized nations, American students rank near the bottom in science and math. Only 13 percent of high school seniors know what high school seniors should know about American history. — Glenn Beck

I promise I'll never tell."
"Don't promise that," he said in an ultraserious voice. "If they try to hurt you and the only way to protect yourself is to tell them what you know about me, then you tell them. Straight off, okay?"
"No."
"Promise me."
"No!"
"I will possess your heart."
Heat flared along the back of my neck. "What did you say?"
"My favorite song. 'I Will Possess Your Heart.'"
"By Death Cab for Cutie?"
He snorted. "No, the little known T.I. Hip-hop remix. Yes, Death Cab for Cutie."
... "Why? What's wrong with it?"
"Nothing, but it doesn't seem to fit you. It's kind of a sad song."
"No it's pure confident. It's not 'I want' or 'I need', none of that crap." He slipped his hand over mine. "It's 'I will.'"
A nervous laugh bubbled up. "You will, huh?"
His fingers brushed my cheek, then slid into my hair. "I will. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them. — Gene Edwards

We can not suppose that all the breeds were suddenly produced as perfect and as useful as we now see them; indeed, in many cases, we know that this has not been their history. The key is man's power of accumulative selection: nature gives successive variations; man adds them up in certain directions useful to him. In this sense he may be said to have made for himself useful breeds. — Charles Darwin

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then you tell the next story. — Jim Butcher

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past. — John Ruskin

In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing. — Mel Brooks

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. — Antoni Gaudi

In the Yoga of Love we see that matter and spirit are one. It's only the ego that separates. — Frederick Lenz

What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail is the best way to make a setting convincing. You can of course invent your own random details, and sometimes I will also mash up real incidents. — Zachary Lazar

It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure. — Jim Rohn

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It's the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It's the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it's the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call accumulative advantage. — Malcolm Gladwell

It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself ... — Lady Caroline Lamb