Accumulation Quotes - Page 16

• All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Wisdom, Art, Errors

  Marshall McLuhan (2015). “Culture Is Our Business”, p.28, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Learning, Science

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.237

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• Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.

  Chanakya

  Men, Sometimes, Wealth

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• If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

  Charlie Munger

  Pieces, Paper, Littles

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• If our goal in legislating against carbon releases is not simply punishing the West and its power companies but truly trying to reduce the accumulation of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, the main event will be in the developing world. We must use the smartest possible economics, and that means investing in China and India.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Mean, Goal, Atmosphere

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• When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exulted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the highest virtues.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Years, Two, Quality

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• Change is more often a rapid transition between two stable states than a continuous transformation at slow and steady rates. . . .Change occurs in large leaps following a slow accumulation of stress that a system resists until it reaches the breaking point. Heat water, and it eventually boils. Oppress the workers more and more and bring on the revolution.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Stress, Two, Point Break

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• We all come into this world the same: naked, scared, and ignorant. After that grand entrance, the life we end up with is simply an accumulation of the choices we make.

  Darren Hardy

  Choices, Ignorant, Naked

  Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

  Haruki Murakami

  Perfection, Imperfect, Limitless

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 20, 2010

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• All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Regret, Stress, Sadness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.61, New World Library

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