Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance. — James Grant Copy Share Image
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… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
Your assignment of confidence limits each of the evidences, which allows for building a cumulative case for God's existence. — Russell Stannard Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration. — David E. Goldberg Copy Share Image
Innate directs its vital energy through the nervous system to specialize the coordination and sensation and volition through the cumulative and vegetative… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see -… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
When I started teaching I realized that I had never had such a level of satisfaction and such a feeling of fulfillment… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
We generated $13.5 billion in cash flow from operations and returned almost $21 billion in cash to shareholders through dividends and share… — Peter Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Organization is simply the means by which the acts of ordinary men can be made to add up to extraordinary results. To… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
[Newlyweds,] these optimistic young bastards, promise to honor and cherish each other through hot flashes and mid-life crises and a cumulative 50-pound… — Jenna McCarthy Copy Share Image
The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
It is the daily; it is the small; it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here to protect…If… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
African Americans, in particular, saw their cumulative wealth crash. They used to have 10 cents on the dollar of the average white… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a… — Plato Copy Share Image
The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Nuclear industry proponents often assert that low doses of radiation (eg below 100mSV) produce no ill effects and are therefore safe. But… — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
Probably the most pervasive false belief most of us harbor is the fallacy that only some superhuman act would have the power… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just… — Camara Laye Copy Share Image
Although gravity is by far the weakest force of nature, its insidious and cumulative action serves to determine the ultimate fate not… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The issues which have created the difficult, multiplex conditions our umma finds itself in have been accumulating over a long time. The… — Habib Ali al-Jifri Copy Share Image
The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
A cumulative change of less than 2°C by the end of this century will do no net harm. It will actually do… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end -… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image