Best Cumulative Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Bright Light Adaptation Disease may occur with aging, as radiation exposures are cumulative.”

Light Disease Aging Radiation Adaptation Electromagnetic Bright Cumulative Exposures Occur

“I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.”

Ifs Persons Might Vision Creative Particular Artistic Combination Sincerely Contradictory Stance Creative Life Cumulative Artistic Vision

Author:George Saunders

“The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that while the art world has effectively freed itself from the tyranny of artistic tradition and its historic patronage system, it has ended up inhabiting an autonomous but perceived irrelevance.”

World Art Culture Belief Christianity Creativity Virtue Effects Theory Tradition Tyranny Artistic Historic Art World Avant Garde Autonomous Cumulative Patronage Irrelevance

Author:John Walford

“Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.”

Inspirational Littles Practice Buddhism Enlightenment Yoga Each Day Enlightened Cumulative

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is broad scientiﬁc consensus that genetically engineered crops currently on the market are safe to eat. After 14 years of cultivation and a cumulative total of 2 billion acres planted, no adverse health or environmental effects have resulted from commercialization of genetically engineered crops.”

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Author:Pamela Ronald

“The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collective soul.”

Way Soul Universe Passion Common Collectives Cumulative Ardor Way Forward

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past.”

Ifs Knows Giving Body Past Science Asks Ability Knowledge Tools Accounts Originals Cumulative

Author:C.P. Snow

“The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.”

Way Mind Dream Seems Routine Cumulative

Author:Stephen King

“The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new forms, but there's a kind of cumulative quality.”

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Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Probably the most pervasive false belief most of us harbor is the fallacy that only some superhuman act would have the power to turn our problems around. Nothing could be further from the truth. Life is cumulative. Whatever results we're experiencing in our lives are the accumulation of a host of small decisions we've made as individuals, as a family, as a community, as a society, and as a species.”

Made Problem Motivational Life Is Turns Individual Belief Community Decision Results Our Lives Species Host Truth Of Life Harbors Accumulation Fallacy Superhuman Cumulative Small Decisions

Author:Tony Robbins

“Your assignment of confidence limits each of the evidences, which allows for building a cumulative case for God's existence.”

Existence Cases Building Limits Evidence Assignments Cumulative

Author:Russell Stannard

“Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want.”

Want Long Can Do Investing Chess You Can Do It Cumulative

Author:Patrick Wolff

“I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.”

Reading Reader Progression Cumulative

Book:A History of Reading

Source: A History of Reading

“There is no safe dose of radiation since radiation is cumulative. Harm in the form of excess human cancer occurs at all doses of ionizing radiation, down to the lowest conceivable dose and dose rate.”

Humans Form Safe Rate Cancer Harm Excess Radiation Lowest Dose Cumulative

Author:John Gofman

“At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.”

Way Humans Animal Happened Collectives Human Intelligence Cumulative

Book:The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

Source: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

“The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud, clear, piercing cry of 'design!' The result is so unambiguous and so significant that it must be ranked as one of the greatest achievements in the history of science. The discovery rivals those of Newton and Einstein, Lavoisier and Schrödinger, Pasteur, and Darwin. The observation of the intelligent design of life is as momentous as the observation that the earth goes around the sun.”

“Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what comes next, but what comes next may retrospectively transform our original understanding, highlighting some features of it and backgrounding others.”

May Reading Next Understanding Movement Originals Affair Features Speculation Initials Straightforward Linear Cumulative Frame Of Reference Highlighting

Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories. Every story you have to report is just part of something bigger. The news isn't what happened last night - it's some cumulative thing that's happened over centuries. I found it hard to think of one event and drag it out of a bubbling pot and present it as the story that explains it all.”

Thinking World Hard Stories Lasts Night Found Accepting Happened Century Events News Bigger Reports Pot Drag Reporters Inability Last Night Neat Cumulative

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.”

Bigs Political Turns Opportunity Economic Missing Events Depends Errors Surprise Financial Ashamed Clients Say Anything Cumulative Outlandish Big Surprises

Book:The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

“The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core of the world's marketing system. Minimally, it suggests unpreparedness for, and lack of interest in, the world that exists outside the shopping mall.”

World Difficult Interest Growing Up Growing Effects Keys Impact Marketing Core Shopping Malls Cumulative Commercialism

Author:Herbert Schiller

“You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts”

Ifs Men Doe Matter Light Can Do Sin Hell Effects He Man Murder Edges Tricks Cards Gentle Slopes Milestone Cumulative Screwtape Letters Signposts

Author:C. S. Lewis

“One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.”

Ifs World Way Kind Doe Different War Whole Would Be Song Virtue Imagine Singing Changing The World Things Change Symphony Accumulation Different Worlds Banging Flutes Cumulative

Author:Mick Jagger

“While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the possession of a significant surplus of material goods has never been a guarantee against covetousness, rapacity and the infinite variety of vice and pain which spring from such passions. Indeed, it could be argued that the unrelenting compulsion of those who already have much to acquire even more has generated greater injustice, immorality and wretchedness than the cumulative effect of the struggles of the severely underprivileged to better their lot.”

“The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person - things he sees and hears and reads, people he talks to, and places he visits. Any given reformer must be content to take a small and obscure place in a chain of cumulative pressures.”

People Persons Long Happens Given Results Thousand Long Time Prejudice Pressure Chains Obscure Reformers Modification Cumulative

Book:Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

“I've published several virtually invisible novels and several dozen even more invisible short stories over the years, all of which give me joy - unlike the cumulative experience of seeking publishers for them!”

Giving Years Stories Joy Novel Give Me Seeking Invisible Short Story Dozen Publishers Cumulative

Author:Scott Bradfield

“The issues which have created the difficult, multiplex conditions our umma finds itself in have been accumulating over a long time. The treatment is going to be multidimensional, prolonged and has to be cumulative.”

Long Has Beens Difficult Issues Conditions Long Time Treatment Cumulative

Author:Habib Ali al-Jifri

“I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And what I learn today may be useful to me two years from now. That's really the wonderful thing about investments is your knowledge is cumulative.”

Years May I Can Two Today Understanding Wonderful Aspect Investment Math Two Years Wonderful Things Cumulative

Author:Warren Buffett

“Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.”

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Book:Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out

Source: Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out

“I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as it goes by. . As I think of those notes now - what I wrote, what I said - it seems to me they danced across the surface just as my grandmother's diaries did - Anais Nin she wasn't, and I wasn't, either. Who is? Not even Anais Nin.”

Thinking Kind Said Moments Seems Might Notes Surface Contemporary Description Grandmother Mail My Grandmother Diaries Cumulative Contemporary Life

Author:Sue Miller

“Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star hints at the pulse of its being by means of its flickering light. But at what moment in this oscillation is our true self manifested? In the darkness or the twinkle?”

Way Needs Mean Self Moments Shows Light Stars Darkness Identity Manifest True Self Pulse Hints Cumulative Oscillation Flickering Light

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“My hope has always been that each record could have its own audience. Of course, it's awesome to have a cumulative audience for more than one record, but I like the idea that there could be a record that an individual might like.”

Ideas Might Courses Individual Audience Records Cumulative

Author:Will Oldham

“But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed the level of what appalls, what stuns, what shocks.”

Age Levels Half Century Information Changed Ignorance Perception Shock Entering Familiarity Numb Insensitive Information Age Cumulative

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Organization is simply the means by which the acts of ordinary men can be made to add up to extraordinary results. To this idea of progress that does not wait on some lucky break, some chance discovery, or some rare stroke of genius, but instead is achieved through systematic, cumulative effort, the engineer has contributed brilliantly.”

“It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius—progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for some brilliant stroke, some lucky discovery, or the advent of some superman, has been the chief gift of science to social philosophy.”

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Author:William Wickenden

“Science began to be powerful when it began to be cumulative, when observers began to preserve detailed records, to organize cooperating groups in order to pool and criticize their experiences.”

Order Powerful Records Groups Organization Preserves Criticize Pool Organize Observers Cumulative Cooperating

Author:William Wickenden

“The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of the countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons. Who we are as a society, is the synergistic accumulation of who we are as individuals... Small changes that seem insignificant in isolation can be great contributions when they are simultaneously undertaken by many others.”

Persons Whole Character Seems Action Individual Results Millions Environmental Contribution Who We Are Isolation Sustainability Insignificant Accumulation Cumulative Small Changes Small Actions

Author:Duane Elgin

“When I started teaching I realized that I had never had such a level of satisfaction and such a feeling of fulfillment and sense of contribution. Just like that. But, usually it's more cumulative, slow, evolutionary and less revolutionary.”

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Author:Stephen Covey

“As an actor who's starting out, you can't say, "Hey, I'm too good for this." You gotta do it, because people see you, your name gets around, and it has a cumulative effect.”

People Actors Names Effects Starting Hey Starting Out Cumulative

Author:Robert De Niro

“Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.”

Progress Finance Engineering Banking Cumulative

Author:James Grant

“When you do a TV show, the cumulative intimacy you develop with the audience through your characters is pretty profound. It may be the most profound storytelling there is, because the character gets to live and roll around in the audience's mind week after week.”

Mind May Character Shows Audience Week Tvs Profound Storytelling Intimacy Tv Shows Cumulative

Author:Howard Gordon

“The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses...While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the "old," pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.”

“The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.”

Wanted Class Progress Middle Revolution Evolution Transformation Violent Dramatic Middle Class Victorian Cumulative History Of Life

Book:The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses

“The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.”

Persons Whole Character Action Results Millions Cumulative Small Actions

Author:Duane Elgin

“Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly - not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.”

Has Beens Might Past Form Humanity Goal Results Effort Existence Century Solutions Ultimate Universal Prepared Crystals Ultimate Goal Betterment Perversion Cumulative

Author:Nikola Tesla

“Wrestling is a one-on-one experience and if something goes wrong you can't point a finger and blame somebody else. What you do is up to you. And yet it's a team sport, because whether your team wins or loses is a result of the cumulative effect of the matches. Wrestling is a great confidence builder because it's not all about strength. You have to use your balance and skill and technique and if you do, you can overcome a lot of muscle and bulk guys, and even those who have natural ability. Basically, you can out-technique an opponent.”

“We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.”

Home Running Judging Politician Balls Average Strikes Score Home Run Batting Cumulative

Author:Jesse Jackson

“A cumulative change of less than 2°C by the end of this century will do no net harm. It will actually do net good [...] rainfall will increase slightly, growing seasons will lengthen, Greenland's ice cap will melt only very slowly, and so on.”

Ends Growing Century Seasons Increase Harm Ice Caps Cumulative Rainfall Greenland

Author:Matt Ridley

“It isn't a hunch but the subconscious mind, which is the creative mind, at work. That is the mind which makes artists do things without their knowing how they came to do them. Perhaps with me it was the cumulative effect of a lot of little things individually insignificant but collectively powerful.”

Mind Littles Artist Powerful Creative Knowing Effects Little Things Subconscious Insignificant Subconscious Mind Hunches Creative Mind Cumulative

Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally - that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping where you put your attention and then - if you're hard on yourself, in good ways - pushing you to translate that attention into action, on whatever scale.”

Ifs Thinking Way Hard Action Force Attention Effects Habit Empathy Scales Pushing Translate Good Way Cumulative

Author:Leslie Jamison

“I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end - the scene where the patient says goodbye to the doctor and she puts a flower in her hair as a kind of thank you to him - and I felt like a cowboy shot from a canyon's top. This is a different experience from reading a novel, I think. The emotional effect is cumulative. Let's just hope market forces don't send short fiction the way of the dinosaur, because their sales are paltry compared to the novel and this is truly unfortunate.”

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