A Quote by Dave Eggers

Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.

Dave Eggers

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Broken His Maybe More Parts Sum Than

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Dave Eggers
American - Writer
Born: March 12, 1970

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

Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.

Bob Dylan

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

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

Wendelin Van Draanen

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Aristotle

A woman is more than the sum of her parts.

Jill Scott

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

Americans have always prized individuality - it is part of our national DNA - but America is a community that draws strength from the sum of our people and has always known that the total of that sum is worth far more than its individual parts.

Evan Bayh

A good collection is more than just the sum of its parts.

Tom Peters

A good album should be more than the sum of its parts.

Ian Rankin

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

You are always trying to make something that is more than the sum of its parts.

Edward Hirsch

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.