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Composite Quotes

When many parts add up to one whole.

Across these composite quotes, the word describes something built from pieces - an actor's distinct colours forming a composite worth watching, or character formed as a composite of daily habits.

Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as...

Quotes by Walter Gropius

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Quotes by Stephen Covey

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about...

Quotes by Sherwood Anderson

But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that...

Quotes by Origen

Altered Quotes

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's...

Quotes by Lou Reed

Everyone has a different colour as an actor. And the composite of all those colours hopefully creates something that's fun to watch.

Quotes by Jon Tenney

R&D has been an obsession in Europe for many, many years. There is this magical number which many governments aspire to do, and that is to invest at least three percent of GDP in research and development. When you look...

Quotes by Jean-Philippe Courtois

Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.

Quotes by Jean-Francois Lyotard

Anew Quotes

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

Quotes by Howard Gardner

I'm very, very leery of nonfiction books where they change timeframes and use - what do they call those things? - composite characters. I don't think that's right.

Quotes by Geraldine Brooks

In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied...

Quotes by Gabriel Lippmann

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

Quotes by Fred W. Friendly

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

Quotes by Carl Friedrich Gauss

Beautiful Quotes

'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was...

Quotes by Caitlin Rose

I am what this country dreams of achieving: a perfect example of composite India.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does "composite" mean across these quotes?
It consistently means something made of combined parts - an actor's distinct colours forming a composite worth watching, or character forming as a composite of everyday, often unconscious habits.
Is there a quote linking composite to personal character?
Yes, one quote calls character "basically a composite of our habits," arguing that consistent daily patterns are what actually express who we are.
Does any quote apply "composite" to politics or the state?
Yes, one quote describes strong laws and defenses as the core foundations of every state, new or composite, tying the word to how nations are structurally built.
How is composite used in the acting-related quote here?
It describes how each actor brings a different "colour," and the composite of all those colours together is what hopefully makes the finished work enjoyable to watch.
What quote pages go well with this composite theme?
Try Because quotes for lines about cause and reasoning, or Beautiful quotes for more on how combined elements create beauty.

One quote even applies the idea to the foundations of a state itself. For related reading, see Beautiful quotes or Because quotes.