Top 97 Sum Of The Parts Quotes
#1. [With Photosynth,] all of those photos become linked together, and they make something emergent that's greater than the sum of the parts.
Blaise Aguera Y Arcas
#2. It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
Pankaj Patel
#3. One reason is that a story exerts a power beyond the obvious. The whole is so much greater than the sum of the parts - the facts, the events, the context - that a story creates a deep resonance.
Anonymous
#4. The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.
Katy Lederer
#5. Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts!
Denise Moreland
#6. A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.
Evan Parker
#7. Really, Dad. I understand now about the whole being greater than the sum of the parts.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#8. As it happens, I think that in really good stories, the whole is always greater than the sum of the parts.
Stephen King
#9. nine categories of value ideas: Graham-style deep value, Greenblatt-style magic formula, small-cap value, sum-of-the-parts or hidden value, superinvestor favorites, jockey stocks, special situations, equity stubs, and international value investments.
John Mihaljevic
#10. My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.
Steve Jobs
#11. It's that way with people, too. Only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#12. To form something greater than the sum of its parts.
Teri Terry
#13. I learned that Congress is a place with more heart than courage; there are more good souls in Washington than brave ones. I learned that the whole is not always the sum of its parts: that what you put in doesn't always match what you get out.
Joaquin Castro
#14. Art is precisely that condition which pertains when, after all analysis and reduction to parts has taken place, there remains a 'quality' which is more than the sum of those parts, which could not exist in any other form, and which cannot be caught, or held, or contained.
Douglas Portway
#15. A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#16. With digital sound just becomes simply information, not the sum of its parts.
Andrew Bird
#17. A place is more than the sum of its physical parts; it's a repository for memories, a record and retainer of all that has happened within its boundaries.
Kate Morton
#19. As a team, they were unbeatable and far more than the sum of their parts.
Ron Chernow
#20. In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
Edward Abbey
#21. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.
Max Planck
#22. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle.
#23. Da thought of people as books to be read, but I've always thought of them more as formulas- full of variables, but always the sum of their parts.
Victoria Schwab
#24. He kissed me with color, with drumbeat, and a surgeon's precision. He kissed me with who he was, the sum of his life - and it was all encompassing. I wondered what I kissed him with since I was only broken parts.
Tarryn Fisher
#25. Traditional diets are more than the sum of their food parts.
Michael Pollan
#26. You are a dynamic whole greater than the sum of your parts. By integrating your
body, mind, and emotions through training, you reshape your life.
Dan Millman
#27. Comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis, the ability to combine creativity and calculation, art and science, into whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.
Garry Kasparov
#28. It was as if his song was one voice, calling out into the darkness until it was answered by another, harmonizing with its own unique voice and emotion to create something even more beautiful than the sum of its parts.
Erik Tomblin
#29. That you exist this way, Zoe, you're the ultimate proof that we can be so much more than just the sum of our parts and knee-jerk impulses. Something about you just could not be controlled, just had to be free.
Heather Anastasiu
#30. That your friends are reflections of the best parts of you. That you are more than the sum total of the things you know and how you react to them. That dancing is sometimes more important than listening to the music.
Pleasefindthis
#31. I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.
Maynard James Keenan
#32. Behavior is math: Truth is found in the sum of its parts.
Steve Maraboli
#33. In a relationship, the sum of your parts should equal more than just you by yourself. He needs to bring something new and different to the table to up the ante.
Chelsea Handler
#34. He did not think of the ten years: What remained of them tonight was only a feeling which he could not name, except that it was quiet and solemn. The feeling was a sum, and he did not have to count again the parts that had gone to make it.
Ayn Rand
#35. You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better.
Erin Morgenstern
#36. I love the entire ritual of getting dressed. When we do a fashion show, we try to send out a message; we couldn't do that without the hair and makeup. The whole is equal to the sum of its parts.
Marc Jacobs
#37. Say a woman is more than the sum of her parts and I'll listen. Say she is more than fruit and blossom and branch and I'll nod my head yes. But say the body does not want and I will fall to the floor under the weight of a world that does not need the sweet talk of a heartbeat.
Sonja Livingston
#38. How could two people get the same set of parts and make such different constructions? But then, there was rising. That had to be taken into account. What could a doormat rear but a pair of boots?
Barbara Kingsolver
#39. Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts.
Jimenez Lai
#40. It's naive to think that anyone is just one person, that there's a real you. What is real? You can only exist in one moment, and then that moment is gone. And there's a new moment, a new you. And you can't even say you're the sum of all your parts, because you can never be all your parts at once.
Sherry Ashworth
#41. I was more than this meek, defenseless victim. I had something within me that was stronger than the sum of all my unacceptable parts.
Jeff Erno
#42. Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.
Dave Eggers
#43. We had a great friendship, good sex, a shared passion for the dinosaur room at the Museum of Natural History and Haagen-Daz French Vanilla ice cream. But love is more than the sum of its parts, isn't it?
Lisa Unger
#44. Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism.
Joyce Appleby
#45. The initial animosity between divergent approaches can be overcome if we realize that each has something to offer that the other lacks. We may weave them together into a new whole that is stronger than the sum of its parts.
Frans De Waal
#46. The racehorse, by virtue of his awesome physical gifts, freed the jockey from himself. When a horse and a jockey flew over the track together, there were moments in which the man's mind wedded itself to the animal's body to form something greater than the sum of both parts.
Laura Hillenbrand
#47. A good album should be more than the sum of its parts.
Ian Rankin
#48. A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
Yo-Yo Ma
#49. If you were searching. I also would have left a small indication that something so important, something so critical to your soul has disappeared. The sole reason a constellation exists is because it's a sum of its parts. To lose one of those parts ... it's painful and irreversible.
Katie McGarry
#50. But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments as for The Wealth of Nations. And as he understood so well, society is more than the sum of its individual parts.
Paul Ormerod
#51. When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts.
Chuck Palahniuk
#52. She longed to be seen, respected, and most of all, one day unconditionally loved (by one fully committed man) for the sum of all her many, many parts.
Candy Darling
#54. The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
Sebastian Faulks
#55. I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts.
Jeff Zucker
#56. So in the end, what is a moment? One action? A single deed? Or is it more? Is a moment like a school of silver fish? The sum of many singular parts forming one cohesive unit? I tend to think so. Because the moment I met Ryan, that was just one of the sum parts.
Marie Hall
#57. AWOL's most valuable commodity: hope. It's something in short supply for those who have been deemed not worth the sum of their parts.
Neal Shusterman
#58. We are more than the sum of our biochemical functions. Even the tiniest flea is an incredibly complex living creature, with mouth-parts adapted to feeding on the blood of your cat or dog.
Robert Lanza
#59. You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.
David Schwimmer
#60. Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.
Gail Simmons
#61. A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.
Frederick Buechner
#62. It's the sum of many parts which grow to be something great.
Oliver Bierhoff
#63. He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.
Michael Eric Dyson
#64. Life is a sum made up of small parts, Kacie. Some are good; some are bad. You and the girls are definitely one of the good. The best good there is and I'll fight like hell to keep you here.
Beth Ehemann
#65. An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Ida Pauline Rolf
#66. I've always been taught that basketball is a team game and greater than the sum of its parts.
Len Elmore
#67. Though I believe math is a tool of the Enemy, I learned enough to know that to accurately find the sum, you add up all the parts.
Jen Hatmaker
#68. The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle.
#69. She smiled brightly, and the sum of their entire relationship could be condensed into that exchange: two actors playing their parts to perfection. Sad that it took so long for him to finally see that.
Alessandra Torre
#70. But we are more than the sum of our parts, and we are more than the numbers on our scales. Be like me and judge people by the decisions they make with their eyebrows. That's way more important.
Luvvie Ajayi
#71. It has been said: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It is more correct to say that the whole is something else than the sum of its parts, because summing up is a meaningless procedure, whereas the whole-part relationship is meaningful.
Kurt Koffka
#72. People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.
Maya Angelou
#73. Together, my parents had learned to be much more than "the sum of their parts", whatever that means.
Separately, they were kind of just a mess.
Brian K. Vaughan
#74. A woman is more than the sum of her parts. So I had an opportunity to present some work at the White House. I chose not just to talk about the sky, the planet, love or heartache. I wanted to actually be there, to place a mark on that moment.
Jill Scott
#75. I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.
Andres Serrano
#76. Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so Wild Flag was not a sure thing, it was a 'maybe,' a 'possibility.' But after a handful of practice sessions, spread out over a period of months, I think we all realized that we could be greater than the sum of our parts.
Carrie Brownstein
#77. The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.
Shashi Tharoor
#78. Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.
Chuck D
#79. We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.
Susannah Cahalan
#80. You are always trying to make something that is more than the sum of its parts.
Edward Hirsch
#81. I am the sum of my parts. Everything I've ever done and everything I've ever achieved and everything I have ever been.
Jen Larsen
#82. Even if, as some have argued, we are no more than the sum of our parts, we can still take comfort in how those parts form a brilliant mess of possibilities and contradictions.
Shukyou
#83. But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that's larger than than the individual parts.
Charlie Hunter
#84. If you trust in the process, forget about all the bells and whistles and just put in the work, disparate things can eventually come together and become something far greater than the sum of their parts.
Claire Cook
#86. Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
Yanni
#87. Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts.
Larry Ellison
#88. I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsession, each contributing something unique to make something greater than the sum of its parts. I don't know why, but from day one, that has interested me.
Steven Van Zandt
#89. Having undergone that disintegration and dying of past individuals and rebirth into something vastly more powerful, all these creatures had joined millions of years before into its own early Gravemind, far more than the sum of its parts.
Greg Bear
#90. The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
Gary Lucas
#91. He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts.
Rainbow Rowell
#92. For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.
Naomi Wolf
#93. Our arrogance
causes us to imagine special value in this temporary collection
of molecules. Why do we perceive more spiritual value
in the sum of our body parts than on any individual cell in
our body? Why don't we hold funerals when skin cells die?
Scott Adams
#94. Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.
Eric Hirzel
#95. The whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it better, and that the collaborative interaction works.
Frank Gehry
#96. A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.
Charles De Lint
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