Sum Quotes

I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.

As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know.

For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

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.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.

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.

America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.