Top 100 Quotes About Bigger Picture
#1. I think I'm a better collaborator, in seeing the bigger picture and trying to just help that, and not be so self-centered in whatever my task is, which is being an actor.
Ray McKinnon
#2. I think there's no harm, sometimes, to feel on the edge of things. If you're on the margins you can see a bigger picture. And I actually quite like standing at a peculiar angle to the universe.
Dermot Bolger
#3. Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.
M. Night Shyamalan
#4. Think the bigger picture here is that you can't underestimate the pain in a person, because, in all honesty, everyone is struggling with something. Some people are just better at hiding it than others. But
Kathryn Perez
#5. It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
Charles De Lint
#6. Learn to choose and how it's done ... Learning what to choose and how to choose it is the best way of getting your bigger picture out of your passport size potentials!
Israelmore Ayivor
#7. The trouble with improv is that it is often about being funny in the moment without any real consideration for the bigger picture.
Simon Pegg
#9. Become a positive person by seeing the bigger picture of whatever you dream of doing. Dream big and act big! It's your time to have a bigger image of you!
Israelmore Ayivor
#10. One of the greatest problems people have with failure is that they are too quick to judge isolated situations in their lives and label them as failures. Instead, they need to keep the bigger picture in mind.
John C. Maxwell
#11. We become what we think; we don't become what we don't think about. When we think of a bigger picture, that's what we get printed.
Israelmore Ayivor
#12. I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.
Anthony Bourdain
#13. It sometimes happens that you just know ... You have a feeling that things are coinciding, and that they operate and work on a number of levels - obviously visual aesthetics, but also content and narrative in terms of the bigger picture. When document and metaphor come together.
Paolo Pellegrin
#14. It's not your responsibility to have the bigger picture in mind. But, the downside is that then, a lot of times, you're disappointed by the movies that are made around you.
Alessandro Nivola
#15. What if you began to see your art as something other than your idea? What if it was less lofty and more necessary to your daily rhythm? What if your art is part of a bigger picture, part of a daily grace God has in mind for someone else?
Emily P. Freeman
#16. People have to understand what my game is. It's not all about numbers. There's a bigger picture here. I don't create off the dribble. I rely on my teammates; my role is to set screens and get rebounds.
Rebecca Lobo
#17. And to know that joy - not just happiness, but true joy - comes when we give up our own agenda and let God work through us. Then we can begin to see the bigger picture, the eternal picture, rather than just the tiny brush stroke of our own lives.
Laura Sobiech
#18. What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.
Isaac Marion
#19. As an actor, you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment and you also realize that you're one part of a bigger picture and when they call action, you have your dance.
Carrie-Anne Moss
#20. Dogs see the bigger picture - everything as a whole, not broken pieces of glass that need fixing. - Madison
Pam Torres
#21. We are all on a collision course with ourselves. Inevitably, our existing habits will be counter-productive to achieving our bigger picture goals. To avoid the crash, we need to regularly review how we are doing things and make adjustments as needed.
John Fairclough
#22. I don't want to be the product of my environment, of the perks of this generation. I want to see the bigger picture, take it into account and make the choices that go beyond what's right in front of me.
I want to be timeless.
Selin Kuscu
#23. One of the best bits of advice I can give is, early on, when you're building a new business, try to find somebody to run it on a day-to-day basis to free yourself up to look at the bigger picture.
Richard Branson
#24. I'm living for myself, everything I do is to achieve my goals, so I'd love to stop caring so much about what I want by then and maybe focus on a bigger picture.
Keiynan Lonsdale
#25. It was such a bigger picture [ Westworld] than what I thought it was. It's more of a revolution than a TV show.
Evan Rachel Wood
#26. Most people chasing their dreams don't see the bigger picture, they just see the silhouette. Make the vision real!
Joel Brown
#27. I am a firm believer that when a person makes mistakes or fails to see the bigger picture, God will remove opportunities from before them.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#28. I heard we'll get you a pass because we know you're married to a black woman. You're married to a sister so we'll give you that pass but also, those who know me but also if they look at the body of work, it is the bigger picture.
Blair Underwood
#29. Consciously or subconsciously, we become slaves to debt and social obligation. As a result, we end up more committed to the minutia and less in tune with the bigger picture: our deepest sense of purpose.
Romany Malco
#30. Consider the bigger picture ... think things through and fully commit!
Epictetus
#31. Eating a healthy diet is not just about eating a few special foods. There's a bigger picture. You need to practice moderation, eat a variety of foods, and get enough physical activity.
Suzanne Farrell
#32. When things don't go your way, never forget who you are, and always remember the bigger picture.
Bill Rancic
#33. Change the size of your dreams if that's what's keep you static. Go for bigger dreams, but start in a small way. See the bigger picture and live by the desire to become excellent!
Israelmore Ayivor
#34. As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.
Eric Balfour
#35. Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come
Mitch Albom
#36. If you don't figure out your main reason of being born, chances are that, you will fall into another plan which is unlikely to make you to print out your bigger picture!
Israelmore Ayivor
#37. There's a much bigger picture beyond surfing, its part of an ocean culture. Everything comes back to Mother Nature. Surfing is a way of connecting, and saying thanks.
Tristan Prettyman
#38. While there are many problems, if one focuses on the bigger picture there are numerous reasons to be thankful for living in a time of remarkable progress and wonderful possibilities for the future.
John Templeton
#39. I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
Barbara Kruger
#40. Some people just don't want to see change, but thankfully there are a lot of people more optimistic for something new in music, even with the bigger picture like with Obama getting elected.
Kid Cudi
#41. It's important to fight for your character but at the same time realize there's a bigger picture involved and, you know, this is a character that's shared by everybody. It's not just purely your own.
Hayden Panettiere
#42. Music takes us out of ourselves, away from our worries and tragedies, helps us look into a different world, a bigger picture. All those cadences and beautiful chord changes, every one of them makes you feel a different splendor of life.
Jennifer Ryan
#43. Music, art, writing ... it's like some
magical psychic drainage. A way of
tapping into the bigger picture of all
it is to be human.
Lou Rhodes
#44. Stop thinking about your life in increments. Seconds. Minutes. Days. Look at the bigger picture and embrace whatever time you have. Don't look constantly toward the end. Enjoy the right now.
A Meredith Walters
#45. As I enlarged my vision to see the bigger picture of my dad's full life, I was better able to let go of being stuck in memories of its end.
Lisa J. Shultz
#46. When the mindfulness of a samurai swordsman fails, he loses his life. When we lose mindfulness in daily life, something similar happens. We become so entangled in our own thoughts and emotions that we lose contact with the bigger picture.
Culadasa
#47. Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.
Wm. Paul Young
#48. An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture, focuses on one task at a time; completes the task competently and organizes for the future.
Ken Wyatt
#49. How many times in your life has anything you forced to happen worked out for you? Have we failed? Has the universe failed us? The universe cannot fail us. We fail ourselves by not seeing the bigger picture.
Ruben Papian
#50. I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.
Dwayne Johnson
#51. The kids get a vote. That's very important when it comes to raising kids. And always keep the bigger picture in mind.
Joe Perry
#52. If parents back off the pressure and anxiety over grades and achievement and focus on the bigger picture - a love of learning and independent inquiry - grades will improve and test scores will go up.
Jessica Lahey
#53. Those 10000 days in prison, but this never made Nelson Mandela to leave what he was doing. He loved what he did and he would repeat to again if he had been arrested again and imprisoned again! He has his bigger picture in view!
Israelmore Ayivor
#54. The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.
Roland Joffe
#55. Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends.
Sandra Bullock
#56. You are too important to the bigger picture to just fall off the canvas.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#57. When you live with a 20/20 mindset your path is straight, vision is clear, and decisions are precise. You see the bigger picture with a broader view and incorporate different angles and perspectives.
Farshad Asl
#58. Sometimes for our sanity own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture.
Jojo Moyes
#59. What modern technology has done has afforded us the luxury of abbreviation and being concise with time, I think. Things that it would take you a week to do can now be done in a day, which is absolutely awesome because you can concentrate on the bigger picture.
Justin Broadrick
#60. Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.
Sam Elliott
#61. I've learned that sometimes during these lengthy times of waiting on God to show up, we can gain comfort by looking at the bigger picture because history proves that the bigger the suffering, the bigger the opportunity for God to really show off.
Tracie Miles
#62. I'd like to see education play a larger role in our daily lives, have people come to a larger understanding - a "bigger picture" understanding - of how we fit into the world, and how we fit into the universe. Not necessarily thinking of ourselves, but thinking of others.
George Lucas
#63. Do not allow your background to draw you to the ground. Imagine the bigger picture, for you will get there.
Osunsakin Adewale
#64. So in many ways, the bombing at the end of this year and the terrorist attack of last year in Peshawar have bookended both those years in a very unfortunate way. But at a bigger picture since, the impression in Pakistan is that things are actually improving on the terrorism front quite dramatically.
Mohsin Hamid
#65. I'm one year older, one year sexier - one more, baby. For me, it's all about the bigger picture. We want to win the whole thing. We've got to beat whoever is in our way.
Shaquille O'Neal
#66. Early on in your career, find someone better than yourself to run the business on a day-to-day basis. Remove yourself, maybe even from the building, and from the nitty-gritty. That way, you're going to be able to see the bigger picture and think of new areas to go into.
Richard Branson
#67. In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
Ilana Glazer
#68. We normally know Jesus as a humble, loving servant, which He is. But Revelations gives us the bigger picture of who Jesus is, in His glory.
Jud Wilhite
#69. Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences.
Etel Adnan
#70. Life is a marathon, not a sprint. It's about taking a bigger-picture approach.
Ivanka Trump
#71. I know that my work as a singer is important, it's valuable to me and to others, but I think that in the bigger picture, I'm just trying to keep my heart pure and open.
Jai Uttal
#72. Your dominion has nothing to do with a negative person's opinion. Flee from people who only hung on passport-size dreams and you'll see your bigger picture! Go for the big one!
Israelmore Ayivor
#73. When we link our eating and our prayer and begin to see food as part of a much bigger picture, rather than the focal point of our entire lives, we reshape the way we think, the way we act, and the way we interact.
Mary DeTurris Poust
#74. Real evil wasn't about bending the law to suit justice: evil was acting out of small, intensely personal expedience and losing sight of the bigger picture so often that you never got it back again.
Karen Traviss
#75. The only reason that people 'Choose' to go backwards is because they let their mind take control. Their mind points them in that direction because it's convenient.
If we learn to quiet the mind the soul has a way of painting the bigger picture for taking the right action into growth.
Matthew Donnelly
#76. I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
Patricia Ireland
#77. When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.
John Bradley-West
#78. See the bigger picture of yours and refuse the passport size creature that people think you are! Your nature is large; go for it. Feel free to wake up and print your bigger picture!
Israelmore Ayivor
#79. Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe.
Alex Steffen
#80. We tend not to look at the bigger picture of our lives and instead dwell on the small things that irritate us. When we focus on the bigger picture, those small things fade away.
Ron Baratono
#81. When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.
Michel Gondry
#82. I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.
Conrad Hall
#83. Why have all the pieces joined together to create such a cruel fate?
Ichtys
#84. Oldboy makes us feel a part of something bigger than ourselves. It's a grand, gritty, indelible experience, the sort of picture that mimics great literature in the way it envelops you in a well-told story while also evoking subtle but strong gradations of emotion.
Stephanie Zacharek
#85. I've always loved the Bond pictures. I have watched every single one. Movies don't get bigger or better than Bond, so I knew this was my opportunity to do a massive action picture with outrageous stunts.
Lee Tamahori
#86. You tell the big lie by carefully selecting only the small, isolated truths, linking them in such a way that that advance the bigger lie by painting a picture inside the viewer's head. The Ascended High Master of this Dark Art is Noam Chomsky.
Bill Whittle
#87. I get the impression that most Chinese entrepreneurs are so focussed on doing what they need to do to succeed in the Chinese market - which is a big enough challenge even for the established players - that nobody is thinking much about the longer run or the bigger global picture.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#88. Educate yourself make your world view bigger, visualize wealth, and put yourself in the picture
KRS-One
#89. Don't look at the big picture as the only achievement. Start with set, smart goals and work up to something bigger.
Jordyn Wieber
#90. We can let go of the person or love or friendship without letting go of the lesson.
Mandy Hale
#91. Never stretch your neck to see who is not doing it big. Look into your bosom, and realize that you can do it bigger! Go, create a brighter picture!
Israelmore Ayivor
#92. There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
Jack Prelutsky
#93. He looked at me with the tired, ignorant, slightly stupid expression that is so common in people who aren't used to seeing the broader picture in small things.
Jonas Karlsson
#94. Put like that, of course, it seems absurd; and yet the absurdity lies in the attempt to picture God as just like us only a bit bigger and more all-seeing.
N. T. Wright
#95. I was leafing through a magazine where there was a before-and-after picture of a woman who went from a size 5 to a size 3 by liposuction. Was she serious? I've cooked bigger turkeys than her "before" picture.
Erma Bombeck
#96. Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star, the more frightened he is.
Paul Mazursky
#97. The Forgotten Works just go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. You get the picture. It's a big place, much bigger than we are.
Richard Brautigan
#98. Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.
Criss Jami
#99. The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
Stephen Covey
#100. If you're still waiting for it, it mean you're not yet ready for it ... whatever "it" is ... so stop looking at waiting as a punishment and start looking at it as preparation!
Mandy Hale
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