Big Picture Quotes

If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.

Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.

My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I'm looking at it as to see what the best character is, then it's not really looking at the big picture.

It’s never something huge that changes the everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you’re busy focusing on the big picture.

Eddie sees the big picture. He's clearly got a vision of how to make this thing the big event. And he never stops working. The minute [the tournament] is completed, he'll be thinking about next year.

The big picture is that there is no big picture. That's why we keep painting it.

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

However tight things are, you still need to have the big picture at the forefront of your mind.

Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.

Sometimes you've got to be a little flexible. For the most part, it's hard to get players to look at the big picture also. I understand that. They're looking at their next start or their next at-bat.

I'm very visionary, very big picture.

I wish I would have kept the big picture in my mind at all times - what it most important? That my kids seek to please God and learn about their Creator.

Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

In the big picture we are all eternal.

In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose that's prospectively boring to strangers.

One rough patch is not the big picture.

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.

I definitely believe in fate. And I believe what you put in is what you get in return. That's the way it's worked for me. As for the big picture - there's some sort of plan.

The big picture is a nice way to think of things if you have the freedom to.

People who have "their own issues" often don't stand back and look at the big picture- they're too busy orchestrating their own issues.

Marriage was a goal. A family, for me as a young girl, was my image of what I hoped for. It was part of the big picture.

You are not just a big-picture girl for me, Brooke Parker. You’re the only picture.

One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how they play out on real people's lives, with real individuals.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's fine.

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

Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.

Learning to focus on the big picture will help you keep things in a proper perspective.

Hard work works harder than luck!

Science is great for us. But for someone who sees the human evaluation for more than one million years, science is just a one instant and younger than a baby.

You didn't choose God. He chose you. When you stop feeling hurt by everyone and plotting your comeback, he has some very important things he wants you to accomplish with your life.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your queen to capture the king.

If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.

Science is great for us. But for someone who sees the humans for more than one million years, science is just a one instant like a baby trying to talk.

Chances are no matter how bad your troubles seem to be, someone somewhere, with less resilience, has successfully conquered a more severe version of your problems.

Having the big picture in mind enables us to overcome the day to day routines that attempt to distract us from pursuing our dream.

Humility is the only thing that can restore a relationship, when respect has been lost.