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Quotes About Overview

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
You have full-field view when you're watching the film. Eye in the sky, it's a lot easier to look at it that way than when you're back behind center.
~ Colin Kaepernick
Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.
~ Roger B. Chaffee
If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.
~ Leroy Hood
The Rest Of Your Life At A Glance", which he thought
~ Brian Sweet
As with . . . even the written word, the remote overview is one more wrenched perspective that developing civilization has glued, collagelike, to the once unified experience of life.
~ Bruce Berger
Twas ostensibly ominous in the overview To be 'orribly and onerously overrun.
~ Ian Mcewan
He first considered the forest before exploring the individual trees.
~ Steven J. Lawson
RULE 2. STATE THE UNITY OF THE WHOLE BOOK IN A SINGLE SENTENCE, OR AT MOST A FEW SENTENCES (A SHORT PARAGRAPH).
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Big-Picture-speak, Risa calls it. Seeing the whole, and none of the parts.
~ Neal Shusterman
The problem starts at the secondary level, not with the originator or developer of the idea but with the people who are attracted to it, who adopt it, who cling to it until their last nail breaks, and who invariably lack the overview, flexibility, imagination, and, most importantly, sense of humor, to maintain it in the spirit in which it was hatched. Ideas are made by masters, dogma by disciples, and the Buddha is always killed on the road.
~ Tom Robbins
Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.
~ Helen Reddy
Focus on the big picture, not the numbers.
~ W. Chan Kim
Laura Briggs's Taking Children: A History of American Terror gives an invaluable overview.
~ Celeste Ng
If you look at the big picture, you start losing your focus on the little things.
~ Julius Randle
It serves to keep the records straight, and is a convenience to the public to whom one wants to do the square thing - affording as it does a bird's eye view of the position of affairs to those of his readers who, through no fault of their own, are not birds.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
We can attain distance by looking at our situation from an observer's perspective.     ââ'¬Â¢  Andy Grove asked, "What would our successors do?"     ââ'¬Â¢  Adding distance highlights what is most important; it allows us to see the forest, not the trees.     7.
~ Chip Heath
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
~ Helen Hayes
Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.
~ Helen Reddy
Go some distance away because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I'm good at the broad strokes but hopeless at the details.
~ Trudie Styler
I love information. I want to stay current. I don't want to be under-informed. But I'm busy. Sometimes, I need an instant overview of a situation that I can grasp in a second.
~ David McCandless
I don't have a directorial overview, which sometimes is very helpful.
~ Julia Barr
A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an op-ed style argument.
~ Julia Bacha