Accumulation Quotes

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer accumulation of micromutations.

To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.

The things that change people's lives are usually an accumulation of small acts.

With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

We've got the catalog, now we just have to figure it out. It's not going to be one gene. It's going to be an accumulation of changes.

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.

The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.

I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.

The accumulation of toxins in the body/mind system accelerates aging.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

Prosperity in a society is the accumulation of solutions to human problems.

There would be no accumulation of strength inside if the choices that you make did not require disipline and intention.

We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.

Diligent accumulation of personal wealth is not inherently ungodly so long as it is complemented by equally diligent distribution of personal wealth.

Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility.

No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

Success with a small s is based on accumulation and materialism. Success with a large S is based on the unfoldment of our soul and the generosity of Spirit made manifest by the giving of our gifts.

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests.

There will grow from straws a mighty heap.

Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.

As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.

One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.

Wealth is above all an accumulation of possibilities

[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.

There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest.

The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation.

Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.

Law school has been described as a place for the accumulation of learning. First-year students bring some in; third-year students take none away. Hence it accumulates.

power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.

In all the talk in the Principles (as opposed to the formal analysis) it is not the saving of rentiers but the energy of entrepreneurs which governs accumulation.

Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.