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“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

“We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.”

Forget Results Conviction Application Accumulation

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“Not a week goes by without my learning something new about golf. That means, of course, that I was ignorant of eight things about golf two months ago. Extend that process back nearly twenty years and the result is an impressive accumulation of ignorance.”

Years Mean Two Courses Process Results Week Ignorance Months Twenties Golf Eight Ignorant Something New Impressive Accumulation Two Months Learning Something New

Book:The World of Golf: The Best of Peter Dobereiner

Source: The World of Golf: The Best of Peter Dobereiner

“Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature... But is is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma.”

Results Destiny Particular Behavior Notion Patterns Karma Tendencies Fixed Confused Prisoner Locks Accumulation Behavior Patterns

Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“I dont often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage.”

People Want Suffering Results Type Disease Various Damage Lifelong Accumulation Cellular Cardiovascular Cardiovascular Disease

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“A wheat belly represents the accumulation of fat that results from years of consuming foods that trigger insulin, the hormone of fat storage.”

Years Results Fats Belly Triggers Accumulation Consuming Wheat Hormones Storage Insulin

Book:Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health

Source: Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health

“Most poverty and suffering - whether in a country, a family or a person - flows from disorganization. A stable social order is an artificial accomplishment, the result of an accumulation of habits, hectoring, moral stricture and physical coercion. Once order is dissolved, it takes hard measures to restore it”

Persons Country Hard Suffering Order Social Results Moral Poverty Habit Flow Accomplishment Artificial Stable Accumulation Coercion Social Order Disorganization

Author:David Brooks

“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

“Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.”

Should Suffering Women Results Sacrifice Ambition Property Accumulation Public Life Embodiment Advent Purifying Restraining

Book:The Essential Writings

Source: The Essential Writings

“Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding. ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge that when one thing happens, another thing happens as a result. It's an accumulation of simple patterns. A dog can learn patterns. There is no "why&rdqo"; in those examples. We don't understand why electricity travels. We don't know why light travels at a constant speed forever. All we can do is observe and record patterns.”