A Quote by Maya Angelou

People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.

Maya Angelou

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Busy Creativity Forth Greater Microscopes Parts People Putting Sum Than Things Too Too Busy

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Maya Angelou
American - Poet
April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014

But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else entirely. There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed

John Green

...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

To me an anthology gives meaning to the phrase, "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts." Even if those individual parts are really f-ing hot.

Rachel Kramer Bussel

We are greater than the sum of our parts.

John Green

And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.

Jim Coleman

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

Jane Siberry

In a studio context, the music becomes greater than the sum of its parts. When you have collaboration, you have other people's strengths that I don't share, so my song can get stronger.

Anoushka Shankar

This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. 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

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Ida Pauline Rolf

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

The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.

Shashi Tharoor

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The part is greater than its role in the whole.

Tom Atlee

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

Yanni

We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.