Quotes About Overview

You get this overview effect where you realize how small we are and how fragile our planet is and how we're really all in it together. You don't see borders from space, you don't see diversity and differences in people on Earth.

I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview of a book. When it was finally edited, at least my take was, everybody's lying. You know?

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.

Trying to look at the whole of the past is, it seems to me, like using a map of the world. No geographer would try to teach exclusively from street maps. Yet most historians teach about the past of particular nations, or even of agrarian civilizations, without ever asking what the whole of the past looks like.

When you climb to the top of the hill and look down you can see everything, just like Jesus on the pinnacle except it's not very tempting.

He is struck by her overview of his situation. It is as if she has understood his life. He is taken by an impulse to clasp her hand and ask her to marry him; even if they did not get on in bed, she seems to have a gift for précis that eludes most of his clerks.

Another very clear and helpful overview of the topic of explanation is in An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, third edition, by Karel Lambert and Gordon G. Brittan Jr. (Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview Publishing, 1987)

A work I failed to mention earlier that gives an excellent overview of the history of evolution, including evolutionary synthesis, is Peter J. Bowler's Evolution: The History of an Idea, third edition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003

I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

from a distance you might see the big picture, but not the whole picture, you missed the details. Not everything was seen, from a distance.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.

When I was at school you got an overall general education, on many things, even just basic facts.

Creating a complete picture of a company financial health, by looking at periodic financial statements, is like turning a hamburger into a cow

requiere cierta «visión de conjunto» que revele el significado y la relevancia de cada una de las partes. Los atenienses perdieron esa «visión de conjunto» en Sicilia. La asamblea

satellite view. "They could

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

We go up to the high places not to see what is up there but to see how the lower places look from the top!

The first diagram that you need on any project is a context diagram.

You've got sort of a wider view.