Quotes About Accumulation

Humans are such creatures of habit that once they get us in all this debt that we accumulate from going college that we have to work it off for the rest of our lives.

I think it's an accumulation of work over the years, culminating with our work during the Hurricane Katrina-Rita relief effort.

Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts.

I love criminal law. It must be the Dostoyevskian streak in me. I'm fascinated by the accumulation of forces that make people behave in ways that everybody else hates.

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

A particular episteme is bound to give rise to a particular form of knowledge. Foucault called the latter a discourse, by which he meant the accumulation of concepts, practices, statements, and beliefs that were produced by a particular episteme.

In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.

To accumulate love means luck, to accumulate hatred means a calamity. Whoever does not recognize the door to problems will one day leave it open, letting tragedy in.

Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity. Anyone who fails to recognize problems leaves the door open for tragedies to rush in.

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.

Then he got more books. He saved all the books.

We need to transform all the "stuff" we've attracted and accumulated into a clear inventory of meaningful actions, projects, and usable information.

Unlike water, which prefers to lie flat as it accumulates, material wealth in complex societies likes to pile itself up into huge pyramids.

A veces pienso que somos masas uniformes que vamos donde nos lleve otro acumulamiento de masa uniforme, que hacemos lo que hay que hacer porque algo hay que hacer y que amamos molestar al otro por nuestras propias imposibilidades. Impedimentos para hacer algo productivo, algo constructivo...

the things which, when added up, amounted to a life.

Applaud yourself when you do good each day. You don't get rewarded for every single penny that you share for others, but these pennies when collected can weigh more than the actual weight of 2.5 billion people.

If you should put even a little on a little, and should do this often, soon this too would become big.

She accumulates stuff to insulate herself from the world,

An 'open story of counting', it must be said that mathematical methodology is a cumulative effort rigorously built atop previous checks.

For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in an accumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimism were more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It was hard to resist the metaphorical impression that women got to keep the past itself, whereas men were simply robbed of it.

Hoarding remained a synonym beloved of bureaucrats for retaining your own assets.

The core dynamic of the capitalist system is the accumulation process, a process in which a portion of the profits reaped through the sale of goods and services is reinvested, swelling the capital stock, incorporating new technologies in the process, and permitting larger sales and profits in the future.

We are precarious. Which is to say some good things (accumulation of diverse knowledges, skills and abilities through work and life experiences in permanent construction), and a lot of bad ones (vulnerability, insecurity, poverty, social exposure).

Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it's just not 100% comprehensive, so it allows a small number of different types of molecular and cellular damage to happen and accumulate.