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Quotes About Big picture

Instead of serving special interests, Congress should focus on the big picture. Globalization and technology have completely reshaped our economy in recent decades, and if we don't respond, we're putting the future of the middle class at risk.
~ John Delaney
Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the big picture.
~ Martin Rees
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.
~ Jennifer Holliday
Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.
~ Ed Wood
I wonder-maybe the key is balance. Maybe it's about living in the moment while still keeping your eye on the big picture-on all the pictures.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
Our goal over the next few chapters is to address the origin of complex structures—including, but not limited to, living creatures—in the context of the big picture. The universe is a set of quantum fields obeying equations that don't even distinguish between past and future, much less embody any long-term goals. How in the world did something as organized as a human being ever come to be?
~ Sean Carroll
I think at times, too many people focus on just little things and not focus on what the whole question and the whole answer is.
~ Donovan McNabb
When the mind's filter disappeared, the big picture disappeared with it. There was no forest, only trees. At its worst, there were no trees, either. Just bark.
~ Stephen King
May you find INSPIRATION in the big picture, but may you find LOVE in the details.
~ Adrienne Maloof
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.
~ Jennifer Holliday
I think, as a writer, you see the big picture, and as an actor, you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the very small details.
~ Richard Dormer
You can't see the forest for the trees.
~ Nicholas Sparks
That's the big picture, your happiness. And health. You should never care what a man thinks of you -- until he demonstrates to you that he cares about making you happy. If he isn't trying to make you happy, then send him back from "whence" he came because winning him over will have no benefit. At the end of the day, happines, joy...and yes...your emotional stability...those comprise the only measuring stick you really need to have.
~ Sherry Argov
When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.
~ Marianne Williamson
The big picture, for me, having grown up with 'Top Gear,' is that it was loved. We need to get that back. It needs to be an institution.
~ Chris Harris
Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.
~ Michael Ignatieff
When Christ- followers act from a place of godly character—when they keep the big picture in mind, when they put others' needs ahead of their own, when they order lives according to kingdom priorities—things change. Big things change.
~ Bill Hybels
Even in the days I feel the worst, I feel glad to be alive. To be a part of this journey called life. To be one of the lucky 7 billion. Why was I chosen to be here? I must have a meaning, right? There's a big picture already painted of my life, my legacy, my happiness. I just have to trust in it.
~ Sylvia Plath
To be part of the big picture, whether it's celebrity interviews or seeing how big the U.S. Open is in New York or on the world stage, is amazing.
~ Pam Shriver
To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.
~ Summer Sanders
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.
~ Carolyn Porco
The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.
~ Ryan Lochte
If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.
~ Leroy Hood
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.
~ Yuri Lowenthal