Missing The Big Picture Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The secret of success is doing things not merely because they are popular, but because you deeply believe in them.

Goswami Kriyananda

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

Anne Lamott

#4. I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!

Will Estes

#5. Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

Erich Fromm

#6. 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

#7. I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a very withdrawn adult to living in Paris as a full-time writer. It has also given me enormous confidence.

Daniel Tammet

#8. I hate one that remembers what's done over the cup.

Desiderius Erasmus

#9. Where do you live?"
"In the hearts of men," Sullivan said.

Don DeLillo

#10. It was written in a red felt marker, and his first thought was that it was from Sarah, though it didn't look like a girl's writing. A girl would make it pretty, with kisses and smiley faces, and she would do it in colored pens and make an envelope as well.

Todd Young

#11. What could be more vexing than to be feted on his birthday when he wants nothing so much as to retreat in solitude to ponder the approach of his own mortality?

Richard T. Nash

#12. Happiness in reality consists only in rest, and not in being stirred up. This instinct conflicts with the drive to diversion, and we develop the confused idea that leads people to aim at rest through excitement.

Dallas Willard

#13. God's purpose at the cross was as real as was the guilt of the crucifiers.

J.I. Packer

#14. Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

Remy De Gourmont

#15. The test! It was as if they believed the test was an infallible superbeing that had descended to earth on a great space ark surrounded by thunderbolts of perfection.

Gordon Korman

#16. Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

Edward McKendree Bounds