Top 100 Accumulate Quotes
#1. Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree.
Janet Burroway
#2. Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.
Agnes Obel
#3. 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.
Brian Ferneyhough
#4. I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.
Philip Roth
#5. We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it.
Dorothy Fields
#6. I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
Noam Chomsky
#7. There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
Henry Ford
#8. Hence paradoxically, as we accumulate more data and increase our computing power, events become wilder and more unexpected.
Yuval Noah Harari
#9. I've got a huge, huge position in mortgage-backed securities. I started accumulating them in 2009, when the market was really down and things were really scary.
Jeff Greene
#10. You don't need a grand plan, you don't need to go back to the ancestors and rewrite the rules. You just need to take small steps and accumulate small wins.
Bruce Feiler
#11. It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
Gloria Steinem
#12. God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.
Shane Claiborne
#13. M For the time is coming when people will not endure n sound [1] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
Anonymous
#14. The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.
James Larkin
#15. Life is not about what you can accumulate. I learned to live when I learned to give.
Anne F. Beiler
#16. I don't mind the government accruing debts as long as every dollar is spent effectively with a high return. That works out fine. If you accumulate debts and waste your money, that's, of course, a disaster.
Jeremy Grantham
#17. Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from dust, smoke, gas, etc.
Isabella Beeton
#18. In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#19. As life progresses, baggage can accumulate. For a while, things can be swept under the rug, but the wait of unfinished business eventually catches up.
Paul Gibbons
#20. Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.
Bruce Lee
#21. The earlier you start, the easier it is to accumulate major wealth. Still, it's never really too late to begin.
David Bach
#22. The second time is the one we remember, where memory begins. Putting the moments in order is only half the story. What matters is the weight of the moments as they accumulate.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#23. An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
Ovid
#24. Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity ...
Norman Foster
#25. I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.
Dakota Johnson
#26. It is only by starting at an unusually young age and by practicing with such ferocious devotion that it is possible to accumulate ten thousand hours while still in adolescence. Far from being an exception to the ten-thousand-hour rule, Mozart is a shining testament to it.
Matthew Syed
#27. Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.
Roz Chast
#28. One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
Junius
#29. Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
Ray Bradbury
#30. I strongly believe that we are not put on this Earth just to accumulate victories and trophies and avoid failures; but rather to be whittled and sandpapered down until what's left is who we truly are
William G. Nickels
#31. Of course he'll bring no money. Nor never will. He's not the type to--accumulate. But it's a good name to have. And he's becoming a personality in the county. One never knows quite why this happens, eh? Not so much what a man does. More a matter of character.
Winston Graham
#32. Paul said in the second epistle ... the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine ... they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn from the truth and wander away to myths.
Jan Karon
#33. By meditating on affectionate love and wishing love for just one moment we accumulate greater merit than we would by giving food three times every day to all those who are hungry in the world.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#34. Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer
Rand Paul
#35. A little here and a little there will always accumulate, so why be surprised when steady, small steps take you to great places?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#36. A man's rule of conduct and his scale of values have no meaning except through the quantity and variety of experiences he has been in a position to accumulate.
Albert Camus
#37. You should no more allow sinful imaginations to accumulate in your mind and soul than you would let garbage collect in your living room.
Billy Graham
#38. Sing your life! Dance your life! Heaven is not up there, it's right where you are! Run, jump, sing, dance, love, kiss, forgive, read, cook, travel, eat, fish, ride....! The only thing you should accumulate in life is EXPERIENCE!
Abhishek Kumar
#39. Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
Thomas Jefferson
#40. Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.
Terry Pratchett
#41. I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Manuel Puig
#42. Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly.. the person who can accumulate the most assets wins the game.
Noel Whittaker
#43. A harem," she murmured into his neck and laughed at last at the notion. "I can't believe you had a harem. You are hilarious, Stuart." He laughed. At himself.
"I hated men. I loved women. I wanted them all. It seemed logical to start to accumulate them.
Judith Ivory
#44. Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make.
William Blake
#45. The person who suffers from inner poverty is relentlessly driven to accumulate on the material level.
David R. Hawkins
#46. If only the ruler and his people would refrain from harming each other, all the benefits of life would accumulate in the kingdom.
Wayne W. Dyer
#47. The theory was simple: If a man had enough sense to accumulate a bunch of cash, then he would certainly make a worthy U.S senator.
John Grisham
#48. In your life never become an agent of Negativity; Unknowingly if you act negative to positive pursuits ... you unnecessarily accumulate Karmic bondage ... Then why act negative ?
Dinesh Kumar
#49. It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.
Pope John Paul II
#50. Those who master and apply the secret will reach high stations, accumulate riches, and bargain with life on their own terms, even if their schooling has been meagre.
Napoleon Hill
#51. Without an abundance of hope and happiness, it will be difficult to accumulate an abundance of wealth.
Debasish Mridha
#52. There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
G.K. Chesterton
#53. The more things we accumulate, the more cluttered our lives become, and the more stressed we feel as we are compelled to think about them. Life is about people not about things.
Natalie Vellacott
#54. I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing.
Scott Rolen
#55. The biggest threat to advanced economies is that debt will accumulate until the overhang weighs on growth.
Carmen Reinhart
#56. business men accumulate great fortunes, by giving before they try to get.
Napoleon Hill
#57. It's never enough to just accumulate knowledge and skills. It's what a person does with what he knows that defines who he is." "Every man must decide the kind of path he'll walk.
Alyson Noel
#58. The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.
Wayne Dyer
#59. When everything seems too far away from you, don't despair, return to yourself because you are the nearest thing to yourself! Accumulate energy with yourself! Then you will feel powerful to reach even beyond the far things!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#60. Most people have it all wrong about wealth in America. Wealth is not the same as income. If you make a good income each year and spend it all, you are not getting wealthier. You are just living high. Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.
Thomas J. Stanley
#61. We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.
Arianna Huffington
#62. Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate.
Thomas Jones
#63. Sages do not accumulate for themselves. The more they give to others, the more they possess of their own. The way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.
Laozi
#64. Acquaintances come and go, friends are here to stay, but enemies accumulate.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#65. But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked.
Jacqueline Carey
#66. As riches increase and accumulate in few hands ... the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.
Alexander Hamilton
#67. If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.
Steven Pinker
#68. People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn and painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate.
John Pfahl
#70. People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.
Pam Houston
#71. All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.
Rohinton Mistry
#72. Knowing where you stand in your quest to accumulate enough money for retirement is an incredibly important part of the planning process.
Jean Chatzky
#73. I wanted to talk about a lot of stuff that I've been through. Party-wise, it's taken me almost a decade to party enough to accumulate enough experiences that I could sing about and put in one song!
Brendon Urie
#74. Many complain of a chronic weariness that sleep will not banish. Their trouble is that too little blood is pumped through the body per minute; this sluggishness, permitting poisonous waste matter to accumulate in every cell, clogs the channels of energy.
Gene Tunney
#75. Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!
Karl Marx
#76. All we are doing are self-portraits. As simple that. We accumulate knowledge and wisdom and power, and we get our hearts broken, and we write. We write for others to absorb what took us so long to understand.
Cristian Mihai
#77. In solitude, you accumulate energy to spend in crowds; and in crowds, you accumulate energy to spend in solitude!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#78. MacArthur himself was more interested in the similarities among phenomena, because similarities reveal the workings of regular processes ... I've already quoted MacArthur's statement that to do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.
Quammen, David
#79. I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.
Buzz Aldrin
#80. Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.
Napoleon Hill
#81. For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.
James Gray
#82. My life is always more delicious when I have whiskers on my face, but that might just be because those whiskers tend to accumulate bacon crumbs and scotch, rendering them literally delicious all day long.
Nick Offerman
#83. There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.
Rand Paul
#84. One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. - BRUCE LEE
Timothy Ferriss
#85. As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.
John Adams
#86. In New York, I live on a compost heap of all the stuff I accumulate.
Peter Beard
#87. Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard. You do not have to strive or slave hard.
Joseph Murphy
#88. The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don't know.
Leonard Sweet
#89. If you realized that the nurtured spiritual part of yourself would accompany you on your eternal journey and that everything else you have labored so hard to accumulate would vanish the instant you depart this world, would it alter your daily agenda?
Walter Cooper
#90. We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.
Lou Harrison
#91. Capitalism places every man in competition with his fellows for a share of the available wealth. A few people accumulate big piles, but most do not. The sense of community falls victim to this struggle.
Donald Barthelme
#92. There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.
Haruki Murakami
#93. We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.
Nhat Hanh
#94. The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.
Wilhelm Steinitz
#95. the strong feeling beginning to be manifested to Wade was not the fun of matching wits and luck with his antagonists, nor a desire to accumulate money--for his recklessness disproved that--but the liberation of the gambling passion.
Zane Grey
#96. The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
Shane Claiborne
#97. Though I may accumulate a great deal of riches in this world, it is only my wealth of knowledge, talents, and emotional bonds that I keep when I leave.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#98. I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally blind to their role in causing avalanches.
Karen Traviss
#99. Life is accumulative - Either our errors accumulate to what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get.
Jim Rohn
#100. I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through.
Margaret Whiting
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