The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging. — John Henry Holland
Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects. — Stephen Covey
Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously. — Mark Twain
Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. — Adam Grant
Tolle numerum omnibus rebus et omnia pereunt.Take from all things their number and all shall perish. — Isidore of Seville
It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there. — Deion Sanders
All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite. — Anaxagoras
Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values. — John Tukey
The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two. — Dashiell Hammett
the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being. — Matsuo Basho
When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the separate hemispheres. — Roger Wolcott Sperry
In everything, there is a share of everything — Anaxagoras
Number rules the universe. — Pythagoras
Statistics are for losers. — Scotty Bowman
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Sum Total Quotes
Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it. — Maajid Nawaz
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. — Dale Carnegie
History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided. — Konrad Adenauer
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. — Konrad Adenauer
Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. — Hunter S. Thompson
Feelings are indicators, not dictators. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the right to dictate your behavior and boss you around. You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift . . . called self-control. — Lysa TerKeurst
Always make a total effort. Even when the odds are against you.
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. — Thomas Carlyle
Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable. — Jim Rohn
Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made. — Wayne Dyer
A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation. — Andy Grove
Sum Of The Whole Quotes
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole. — Arnold J. Toynbee
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. — Thomas B. Macaulay
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
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. — Winston Churchill
Occasionally, the whole class struggle may be summed up in the struggle for one word against another word. Certain words struggle amongst themselves as enemies. Other words are the site of an ambiguity: the stake in a decisive but undecided battle — Louis Althusser
He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. — Herman Melville
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
The sum of the whole is this: walk and b« happy! walk and be healthy. The best of all ways to lengthen ourdays, is notas Mr. Thomas Moore has it, " ]To steal a few hours from night, my love;" but with leave, be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. — Charles Dickens
The world is more than the sum of its suffering. — Deepak Chopra
A fist is more than the sum of its fingers. — Margaret Atwood
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
No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways. — Srinivasa Ramanujan
You are only one decision away from a totally different life.
The coolest thing is when you don’t care about being cool anymore. Indifference is the greatest aphrodisiac - that’s what really sums up style for me. — Rick Owens
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil. — James Monroe
Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today? — Albert Camus
Always believe in yourself. No matter who's around you being negative or thrusting negative energy at you, totally block it off. Because whatever you believe, you become.
Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully. — John A. Lejeune
The Pentecostal power, when you sum it all up, is just more of God's love. If it does not bring more love, it is simply a counterfeit. — William J. Seymour
Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment. — Al Pacino
To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing. — Adolf Eichmann
My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people. — Steve Jobs
I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total. — Charlie Chaplin
Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings of worthlessness, sinfulness, inferiority, incompetence, failure, or emptiness. The feeling that there are things in us that are lacking or missing or incomplete. — Kenneth Wapnick
Quality of life is the sum total of the fairness of our tax structure; the caliber of our homes; the cleanliness of our air and water; and the provision of affirmative assistance to those who cannot assist themselves. True quality is absent if we allow social suffering to abide in an otherwise pristine environment. — Tom McCall
Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives. — Mortimer Adler
Your age is the sum total of your physical condition, the condition of your mind, and how you feel. — Jack LaLanne
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived. — Nicole Krauss
If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors. We transmit to you, the next generation, the total sum of our knowledge. Yours is the responsibility to use it, add to it, and transmit it to your children. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment. — Joan Crawford
Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you. — Blaise Pascal
We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small. — Myles Munroe
Because nitrous oxide [released by nitrate-fertilised soil] is 296 times stronger than CO₂ at global warming and methane [cow farts] is about 26 times as potent as CO₂, the combined greenhouse effect of our livestock worldwide is greater than the sum total of all the cars, trains, busses, trucks, ships, airplanes and jets. — Thom Hartmann
The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made. — Eleanor Roosevelt
It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose. — Clifford D. Simak
Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths. — Vladimir Lenin
This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life. — Janet Erskine Stuart
No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness. — Elihu Burritt
Life is like a game of chess...there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move...where you wind up is the sum total of all your past moves...but first you have to make some kind of move. — Mort Walker
I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate. — Sonia Sotomayor
You are the sum total of your choices. — Wayne Dyer
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. — Hu Shih
The sum total of all sums total is eternal. — Lucretius
The sum total of each man's giving determines the standard of man's civilization. — Walter Russell
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances. — Cesare Pavese
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
Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that. — Franz Kafka
Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects. — Clay Buchholz
Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's related by a causal chain of existences, of moments, of particles of timelessness. — Frederick Lenz
I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal. — Mahatma Gandhi
In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority. — Albert Meltzer
The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God. — Immanuel Kant
Here is a definition which correctly reflects the course of thought and action of a grandmaster: - The plan in a game of chess is the sum total of successive strategical operations which are each carried out according to separate ideas arising from the demands of the position. — Alexander Kotov
Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean. — Mahatma Gandhi
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