Gloria Steinem

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.

American Activist

Liu Xiaobo

I always think that reforms and turning China into a free country is a long and tortuous process. Despite this, in a totalitarian state, the fight for freedom comes from the accumulative efforts of the people; without such efforts, very little will happen.

Chinese Critic

Jaggi Vasudev

The reason for fasting is to understand the relationship between what's you and what's the accumulative body.

Indian Author

Think of 'accumulative' like a snowball growing as it rolls down a hill.

Adding Over Time

'Accumulative' reflects the importance of everything that happened before.

Past Contributions

'Accumulative' describes how experience or knowledge piles up over time.

Experience Grows

'Accumulative' reflects how learning is not immediate but increases with continuous study.

Learning Over Time

'Accumulative' is used when emphasizing teamwork over individual effort.

Beyond Individual

In finance, 'accumulative' often refers to money growing due to interest or profits.

Financial Growth

'Accumulative' indicates the whole is more significant than just adding separate parts.

More Than Parts

In investing, 'accumulative' implies that profits are reinvested to boost total growth.

Investment Strategy

When analyzing data, 'accumulative' concerns the layered impact of variables.

Statistical Buildup

'Accumulative' often implies small, repeated actions that add up significantly over time.

Gradual Increases

 are responsible for less than one percent of accumulative carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Even if every one of the one billion people in sub-Saharan Africa tripled their electricity consumption overnight, and if all of that new power came from natural gas-fired plants,