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Letter "C" » cumulative
«A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.»
«Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.»
Author: John Leonard
| About:
Baseball,
Sports
| Keywords:
basketball, cumulative, grenade, grenades, hand grenade, hand grenades, hockey, hockey game, machine gun, tension
«The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity»
Author: Richard Dawkins
| About:
Evolution
| Keywords:
complexity, cumulative, evolution, explaining, in principle, natural selection, selection, selections, theory of, theory of evolution
«Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.»
Author: Bill Cosby
(Actor, Comedian, Producer)
| Keywords:
cumulative, gained, generation, incredibly, previous, raising, repeats, riskiest, risky
«Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
adopted, adopts, cultivation, cumulative, extemporaneous, force, Half a Life, half life, imitate, imitated, insist, insisted, life force, possession, talent
«The force of character is cumulative»
«Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| About:
Disillusionment
| Keywords:
affects, bury, come forth, cumulative, cynicism, disappointment, disillusionment, disproportionate, embodiments, high quality, illnesses, mentality, minor, overreaction, provocation, provocations, psychosomatic, rage, reincarnation, repress, repressed, repressing, resentment, suppressed, The Embodiment, transcending, uglier, unexpressed
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