Cumulative Quotes

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.

Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.

It`s cumulative. It sneaks up on you. I`ve seen lots of people who were surprised that they had a hearing loss. It`s just the nature of the environment in which they work.

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.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

He wasn`t a boxer, but that`s a general term that we would use to denote changes in the brain of a degenerative nature, ... They can be from one intensely traumatic injury, or they can be from repetitive and cumulative injuries, which is what we believe happened here.

There appears to be a tremendous void in the business in thinking beyond the constraints of directed search. The industry is focused on things like behavioral advertising and the impact of next generation ad models. It appears in that process we`re leaving behind the cumulative information and the cumulative understandings that can be achieved by pulling the entire knowledge base together.

It was more something that happened (Wednesday) night than a cumulative thing. It was something that happened during the game and afterward. We`re going to handle it internally.

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.