Top 99 Big Picture Quotes

I follow the director’s lead because they generally know more about the big picture, but I also trust that the director will give me enough freedom to play.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

It’s what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it’s an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view.

Details create the big picture.

I really think the mind of someone who hasn’t been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I’d like to do a big picture with an unknown director.

I’m interested in the history of the soul: the everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits – or disdains.

Baseball is a game based on adversity. It’s a game that’s going to test you repeatedly. It’s going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.

Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don’t see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

Scientists tend to come in two stripes: those who have tremendous appetite and aptitude for the details, and those who illuminate the big picture. Sagan was definitely in the latter category, and he was profoundly good at it. He made connections that others did not have the intellectual breadth or courage to make.

As a professional, you can afford to pick some stocks and be wrong about a few of them. To keep your job, you cannot take the risk of being seen to be wrong about the ‘big picture’ for very long.

The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.

I put little goals in place every day, and I think if you can kind of keep to the small things it’s easier to capture the big picture at the end.

Food justice must be incorporated into the city’s long term and big picture planning efforts.

My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.

You’re not always going to get the outcomes you feel like your talent deserves, that you feel like the big picture deserves. And what’s real is how do you respond in those situations?

Artists are neurotic and hypersensitive, and they tend to focus on granular details, sometimes at the expense of the big picture. I’ve gotten better at the big picture over the years.

I can be among the general public and next to me is a big picture of my face, but no one notices apart from my friends.

I really think the mind of someone who hasn’t been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I’d like to do a big picture with an unknown director.

I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes… sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.

Where I’m at in life, the women have got to come with something else, not just the body, but the mind and spirit. It usually trips them out, but that’s the way it’s going to be. I’m looking at the big picture.

Actually I think Art lies in both directions – the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

I need a big picture. I can’t just do a collection of songs; that doesn’t work for me.

Chip is the risk-taker. He’s all about the big picture but with a get-it-done attitude, and sometimes I’d rather play it safe and really focus my energy on the details.

If I am right about the big picture, I will be rewarded for my patience.

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

‘Orientalism’ has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point of view and always see things from different perspective.

A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don’t see a big picture for our lives. We don’t love ourselves. We don’t have a way of kind of gauging the future, so we count it lost.

I am a bigger-picture manager because I’ve lived through something that’s a big picture.

I don’t usually paint a big picture on what I’ll do in the future.

I often avoid using the terms ‘figuration’ and ‘abstraction’ because I’ve always tried to have it both ways. I want the experience of looking at one of my paintings to be similar to the process of making the painting – you go from the big picture to something very intense and detailed, and then back again.

I believe that sometimes, when we talk about books, we’re talking about the big picture – how they’re relevant.

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I’m a famous author in a country where no one reads.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

I look at the big picture and try not to create with ego.

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn’t thinking about the big picture. I didn’t notice what they said on television, I wasn’t reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

I am a micromanager, and I love being involved in every detail of my life, but in the big picture, you realize how little control you have. ‘Air I Breathe’ is about those moments of surrender where you get to something that is bigger than you, and you don’t have answers for it.

If you look at the big picture, you start losing your focus on the little things.

While it’s important to be open-minded, we don’t have to be naive. Although Iran claims they are developing nuclear capability only for peaceful purposes, it’s most difficult to believe them when taking a step back to assess the big picture of Iran’s threats and actions.

I think that one of the things that I can do is I seem to have the ability to zoom in super tight for very small details, but then jump back for sort of that big picture perspective. And I think that ultimately, that’s one of my strengths, because you have – every detail matters.

The big picture doesn’t just come from distance; it also comes from time.

I think the best mood for writing is a heavy feeling that’s a little bit removed from you. Sometimes I feel very self-indulgent and bratty and ungrateful, and no good music comes out of that. But sometimes I can be really sad or have an excess of feeling yet somehow be able to see the big picture more.

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people’s egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.

I don’t believe in careers. I believe in work. I’m not interested in some ‘big picture that would be really good for me’.

I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I’m in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.

I think it’s really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition.

To be a good citizen, it’s important to be able to put yourself in other people’s shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It’s a great hacker’s tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

I don’t usually paint a big picture on what I’ll do in the future.

It’s the whole big picture that we have to look at to create an organization that wins over the long term. And to just shoot from the hip on a decision based on winning over a 10-game period. No, that doesn’t make sense.

The big picture goal is legacy. It’s knowing that when I’m done, what I’ve done has changed the industry in some way and made an impact in some way.

We tend to think of Steam as tools for content developers and tools for producers. We’re just always thinking: how do we want to make content developers’ lives better and users’ lives a lot better? With Big Picture Mode, we’re trying to answer the question: ‘How can we maximize a content developers’ investment?’

Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this ‘big picture’ in vague concepts and words.

I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes… sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.