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Details create the big picture. -- Sanford I. Weill
Get the big picture! See 2 Believe! -- Leon Welch
In the big picture we are all eternal. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
One rough patch is not the big picture. -- Ellen DeGeneres
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. -- Chuck Palahniuk
We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels. -- Silvia Cartwright
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up. -- Chuck Palahniuk
When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself. -- Georges St-Pierre
If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture. -- John C. Maxwell
If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right. -- Leroy Hood
I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition -- Shannon Miller
If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching. -- Anne Lamott
I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition. -- Shannon Miller
If you just focus on the smallest details, you will never get the big picture right. -- Leroy Hood
Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process. -- Michael Ignatieff
See the big picture and details of everything in your life (zoom out, then zoom in). -- Ehab Atalla
May you find INSPIRATION in the big picture, but may you find LOVE in the details. -- Adrienne Maloof
To see the big picture, get out of the dark valleys, climb to the sunny summits! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture. -- Ed Wood
We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise, Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized. -- Kendrick Lamar
Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted. -- Bethany McLean
However tight things are, you still need to have the big picture at the forefront of your mind. -- Richard Branson
It's incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God's plan -- Bill Hybels
Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul. -- Ann Landers
I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. -- Richard Powers
Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details. -- Henry Mintzberg
It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Don't look at the big picture as the only achievement. Start with set, smart goals and work up to something bigger. -- Jordyn Wieber
It is important to ask yourself why you're doing what you're doing and what purpose it serves in the big picture. -- Miley Cyrus
In the big picture, life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it. -- Sarah Silverman
The mind is the most important thing of the big picture and no one has a stronger mindset than amateur wrestlers. -- Joe Rogan
We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts. -- Suze Orman
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. -- Xun Zi
Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat. -- Lurlene McDaniel
We learn most readily, most naturally, most effectively, when we start with the big picture - precisely when the basics don't come first. -- Alfie Kohn
If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture. -- Dan Barber
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. -- Laura Schlessinger
I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. -- Steven Saylor
Remember, the Devil loves to make us focus on the little that's wrong so we miss the big picture of all that's right. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. -- Steven Saylor
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. -- John Oates
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
In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better. -- Paul Keating
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
Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad? -- Frank Gehry
Learn to see the big picture. Often times we get tunnel vision and lose sight of the big picture and what we're really trying to accomplish. -- Robert Cheeke
Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems. -- Lester R. Brown
The hurdles have taught me that if you work really, really hard at perfecting the little things in your life, the big picture will come together. -- John Shaffer
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. -- Demi Moore
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. -- Jamie Zawinski
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
sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next! -- Sophie Kinsella
Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse. -- Epictetus
Always keep the big picture in mind- you are greatly loved by Jesus and your job is to love Him and others in return. The rest is detail. -- Bear Grylls
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. -- Bjarke Ingels
Appreciation is a powerful tool to shift perspective. Finding something to appreciate during a difficult situation quickly moves the perspective to the big picture from the little picture. -- Doc Childre
I don't see the big picture. I don't have a clue. But I know God does. I'm going to declare that, even if I don't feel it right now. -- Steven Curtis Chapman
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. -- Sarah Dessen
My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more important than the big picture. Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality. -- Dieter Rams
Balance is always tough with the kind of shows and my work ethic and all of that, but that definitely helps me do what I do in the big picture. -- Hank Williams III
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. -- Lionel Shriver
Withdraw yourself from the low places and replace yourself to the high places! Leave the local positions; take a universal position! To see the big picture is the key for the salvation! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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. -- Okky Madasari
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. -- Frank Grillo
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. -- Mary Engelbreit
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. -- Okky Madasari
Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it. -- Bentley Little
The thing about seeing the big picture and being self-aware is knowing that it's not about you. It's about the big picture. It's not about you. It's not. This is not about you. -- Jimmy Iovine
Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems. -- Barbara Fredrickson
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. -- Gerry Beckley
When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision shrinks. There is no big picture, no dots to connect. -- Barbara Fredrickson
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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. -- Story Musgrave
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. -- Susan Collins
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. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Bob Geldof feels the big picture all the time, even in the smallest argument when someone's saying, 'Well, no, you've got to have three staples in the program, not just two,' Bob feels people dying somewhere. -- Richard Curtis
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. -- Terry Francona
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. -- Eli Pariser
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.' -- Elisha Cuthbert
The ethics of excellence requires a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment you might mortgage the future? What happens if you put your reputation at risk and lose the bet? -- Price Pritchett
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. -- Chuck Palahniuk
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 just fine. -- Chuck Palahniuk
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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. -- Victoria Osteen
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. -- Boris Becker
Life is a million different dots making one gigantic picture. And maybe the big picture is nice, maybe it's amazing, but if you're standing with your face pressed up against a bunch of black dots, it's really hard to tell. -- Rebecca Stead
Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw. -- Daniel H. Pink
I think the general population of people just don't think. It's actually proven that people just use the part of the brain they have to, to get through the day. They don't sit there and ponder over the big picture stuff. -- Mitch Lucker
I've been deadline-driven for my whole grown-up life, and that hasn't gone away. It is nice to be able to reflect about the big picture, about what kind of stories you want to tell, and how to take advantage of success. -- Matt Groening
My husband is that rare man who is blessed with the ability to see the big picture but will not ignore the smallest detail. He will work an 18-hour day and still find time to help the kids with their homework. -- Nita Ambani
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. -- Lenny Kravitz
My whole life has been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that let's you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first compost heap. -- Bette Midler
Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next. -- Sophie Kinsella
A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment. -- Bret Michaels
As a writer you see the big picture and how you can tell as one character, how your storyline is going to meet up with all these other storylines. And as an actor you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the very small details. -- Richard Dormer
I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind. -- Kate Baldwin
Indeed one streak in our economy, we're missing the big oil companies. We're missing other big energy companies. We're missing the big picture, and I have a record of trying to go at the problems that actually exist, and I will continue to do that. -- Hillary Clinton
I need to live up to my potential, wherever that may be, in all aspects of my life. My head gets in the way, and I need to look at the big picture - that this is the best, and I am living my dream. -- Chris Cole
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues. -- Terry Pratchett
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. -- Sean Combs
What we realize is number one, people want to know what the Bible says. In their heart, they want to know the Bible but it is just hard to understand the big picture of it. And number two, they want to know where they plug in. -- Max Lucado
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. -- Sean Combs
I've always felt it's the directors purview to say what; it's the actor's purview to say how. It's not good for an actor to have the big picture in mind - it bollocks you up. An actor's purview is the tiny little... We measure our performance in seconds. -- William H. Macy
In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather. -- Kevin J. Anderson
People do look up to me and it makes me feel good. I made it out of a bad situation and I didn't mind bettering myself and I think that is what people respect. Most people go backwards but I was able to look at the big picture. -- Master P
I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds. -- Ellen DeGeneres
When scientists are asked what they are working on, their response is seldom 'Finding the origin of the universe' or 'Seeking to cure cancer.' Usually, they will claim to be tackling a very specific problem - a small piece of the jigsaw that builds up the big picture. -- Martin Rees
Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill; and whether they were your friends or not, you have to look at the big picture. In the big picture, you can't go kill anybody, you can't be killed. -- Frederick Lenz
Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill; and whether they were your friends or not, you have to look at the big picture. In the big picture, you can't go kill anybody, you can't be killed. -- Frederick Lenz
I'm looking to see what the bigger picture is. -- Chris Daughtry
In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club. -- Ilana Glazer
The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time. -- Simon Sinek
I think The Big Picture was such a huge shift from my second record. -- Michael W. Smith
I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6. -- Loretta Young
As long as you don't think about the whole big picture, producing 'Spider-Man' is a fantastic experience. -- Michael Cohl
The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward. -- Ryan Lochte
I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick. -- Big Boi
I'm very visionary, very big picture. -- Max Azria
You are not just a big-picture girl for me, Brooke Parker. You're the only picture. -- Julie James

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