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“Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.”

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Author:Peter Hammill

“The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.”

Giving Believe Bigs Reality Able Individual I Believe Perspective Big Picture

Author:Mick Ebeling

“One rough patch is not the big picture.”

Bigs Rough Patches Big Picture Rough Patches

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“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.”

Mind Littles Bigs Actors Felt Directors Performances Tiny Seconds Big Picture

Author:William H. Macy

“There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.”

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Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“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.”

Mind Bigs Jobs Jesus Return Details Big Picture

Book:To My Sons: Lessons for the Wild Adventure Called Life

Source: To My Sons: Lessons for the Wild Adventure Called Life

“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.”

Kind Helping Shows Bigs Balance Ethics Tough Help Me Work Ethic Big Picture

Author:Hank Williams III

“I want people to see my movies. My talent, my sensibilities are what people want to see in the movies... While I have the talent to make the kind of movies people want to see I want to continue to do that, keep making big pictures and make what I love. I’m really just making the films I want to see. There’s not a strategy.”

People Want Kind Bigs Film Talent Strategy Sensibility Big Picture

Author:Brett Ratner

“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.”

Mind Important Bigs Kids Wish Please Creator All Time Big Picture

Author:Mary Engelbreit

“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.”

People Thinking Use Bigs Stuff Brain Population Proven Pondering Big Picture

Author:Mitch Lucker

“If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture.”

Ifs Thinking Bigs Would Be Seeing Being The Best Profitable Big Picture Tasting

Author:Dan Barber

“Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.”

Bigs Wanted Literature News Bad News Big Picture

Author:Mickey Spillane

“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.”

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Author:Richard Curtis

“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.”

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Author:Matt Groening

“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.”

Ideas Different Bigs Views Awareness Perspective Built Western Critical Point Of View Big Picture Different Perspective Orientalism

Author: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.”

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Author:Frank Grillo

“Those who profit from adversity possess a spirit of humility and are therefore inclined to make the necessary changes needed to learn from their mistakes, failures, and losses. ... When we are focused too much on ourselves, we lose perspective. Humility allows us to regain perspective and see the big picture. ... Humility allows us to let go of perfection and keep trying.”

Trying Bigs Spirit Loses Loss Mistake Too Much Humility Perspective Needed Letting Go Perfection Adversity Profit Focused Keep Trying Big Picture Necessary Change

Author:John C. Maxwell

“In this game, you have to think about making plays, you can't worry about making mistakes. At times, a guy will get thrown out, but in the bigger scheme, the bases we're going to take will far outweigh that occasional misread. And it depends on what you call a mistake. If the outfielder puts the ball right on the money, he's out by a quarter-step and it's a bang-bang play, that's not a mistake. That's baseball. If you're out by four or five steps, it's ugly, it's a misread, but in the big picture, that aggressiveness is going to help us more than the occasional blunder will hurt.”

“When your trying to be an adult in a relationship you seriously don't need to lie or front and try to put on this big picture or pseud like your something that your not.”

Needs Trying Bigs Lying Fronts Like You Adults Big Picture

Author:Gabrielle Dennis

“To see the big picture, get out of the dark valleys, climb to the sunny summits!”

Bigs Dark Climbs Valleys Summit Sunny Big Picture

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“We learn most readily, most naturally, most effectively, when we start with the big picture - precisely when the basics don't come first.”

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Book:The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and

Source: The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and

“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.”

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Author:Richard Dormer

“There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.”

Bigs Individual Levels Middle Devil Strategy Details Brilliant Tendencies Managers Phrases Zero Capability Timing Senior Superficial Marketplace Familiarity Big Picture

Author:Andy Grove

“There's a lot wrong [with American universities]. I'd remove 3/4 of the faculty - everything but the hard sciences. But nobody's going to do that, so we'll have to live with the defects. It's amazing how wrongheaded [the teaching is]. There is fatal disconnectedness. You have these squirrelly people in each department who don't see the big picture.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“The big picture is: the main thing you should be concerned about in the future are incremental returns on capital going forward. As it turns out, past history of a good return on capital is a good proxy for this but obviously not foolproof. I think this is an area where thoughtful analysis can add value to any simple ranking/screening strategy such as the magic formula. When doing in depth analysis of companies, I care very much about long term earnings power, not necessarily so much about the volatility of that earnings power but about my certainty of "normal" earnings power over time.”

“You're going to make mistakes. The key is to learn from them as fast as possible and make changes as soon as you can. That's not always easy to do because ego and pride get in the way, but you have to put all that aside and look at the big picture.”

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Author:Tiger Woods

“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.”

Ifs Looks Bigs Forget Doors Fine Details Tricks Closing Shortcuts Big Picture

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“It's been very much in the blood since I started imagining films or shooting with 8mm when I was a kid. I made some films and thought about films, but then I went into writing. Becket is something that's definitely on the cards. We have to see where that fits in the schedule, because it's a big picture and I have a lot of writing obligations at the moment. I'm wary of anything with a budget over a certain amount.”

Writing Made Moments Bigs Kids Film Certain Blood Amount Fit Obligation Cards Shooting Budgets Schedules Big Picture

Author:William Monahan

“The perspective that law enforcement is presenting seems to be a very narrow one that's focused very, very heavily on investigations of past crimes rather than on preventing future crimes. It's very important for policymakers to take that broader view because they're the ones who are trusted to look at the big picture.”

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Author:Matt Blaze

“The capacity to see the big picture is perhaps the most important as an antidote to the variety of psychic woes brought forth by the remarkable prosperity and plentitude of our times. Many of us are crunched for time, deluged by information, and paralyzed by the weight of too many choices. The best prescription for these modern maladies may be to approach one's own life in a contextual, big picture fashion - to distinguish between what really matters and what merely annoys.”

Source: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“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.”

Self Bigs Knowing Seeing Big Picture

Author:Jimmy Iovine

“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.”

Bigs Young Girl Goal Big Picture

Author:Demi Moore

“We are living at a time when the Prostestant church is rediscovering the truth that transformation in Christ occurs through the disciplines of formation. Finally, Adele Calhoun has pulled all of these together into one volume, complete with clear definitions and practices of a variety of ways that God uses to grow our lives. No longer do you have to root through scattered pieces of paper, nor a chapter here and there to get the big picture of the tried and true disciplines. This is one resource you will want to have at your fingertips.”

“It's always made me feel odd when I'd get a Dove Award for an instrumental album that has nothing to do with gospel. When I think of gospel music, I think of spreading the Good News with words. But maybe it's just because I was heralded once upon a time as one of theirs. The category of instrumental music seems sort of important to the big picture, but I felt a little embarrassed at the same time.”

Thinking Feels Littles Made Important Bigs Seems Felt News Albums Odd Awards Categories Embarrassed Good News Dove Once Upon A Time Big Picture Gospel Music Instrumental Music

Author:Phil Keaggy

“I call it "the big picture effect." Getting to see earth as a small planet and to see it in that perspective, seeing it in the heavens as a planet as opposed to being down here among it, most of the people, in fact, I guess all of the people who have had that experience, shift their thinking.”

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Author:Edgar Mitchell

“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.”

People Thinking Feels Mind Looks Made Bigs Able Situation Feel Good Made It Look Up Backwards Big Picture Bad Situations

Author:Master P

“We tend to think of Steam as tools for content developers and tools for producers. We're just always thinking: how do we want to make content developers' lives better and users' lives a lot better? With Big Picture Mode, we're trying to answer the question: 'How can we maximize a content developers' investment?'”

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Author:Gabe Newell

“Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.”

Doe Whole Bigs Christian Suffering Pieces Fit Christian Faith Big Picture Whole Picture

Author:Alister E. McGrath

“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.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“Some people who are creative are not reliable and vice versa; some see big pictures while others see details, etc. All of them are important to have on well-orchestrated teams.”

People Wells Important Bigs Creative Team Vices Details Etc Vice Versa Big Picture

Author:Ray Dalio

“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.”

Littles Bigs Moving Difficult Powerful Situation Perspective Findings Appreciate Tools Appreciation Recognition Big Picture Difficult Situations

Author:Doc Childre

“Panorama is the first word for landscape in Greek. It was about [how today] we see everything, we get to see everything, everything is shown to you whether you want it or not, but all of the time you only see fragments of reality. The big picture we really don't see; it's kind of hard to make it up.”

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Author:Michal Rovner

“The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as well.”

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Author:Elliott Sober

“I always encourage people to start in their own personal universe, because sometimes we as parents start thinking about the big picture. How do I change what's happening in my entire school? And how do I do it in my community? And then you get overwhelmed and it's just like, "Forget it, I'll just stay here in my kitchen and wait." But, start small.”

People Thinking Sometimes Bigs School Universe Waiting Parent Community Forget Happenings Kitchen Overwhelmed Forget It Big Picture

Author:Michelle Obama

“I want to tell every fan that I appreciate them with a retweet or reply but I don't want my account to lose my own tweets. I don't my fans to have to go through a bunch of replies to get to my own tweets right? In the big picture though I do read all of the tweets and I appreciate all of my followers and my fans.”

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Author:G-Eazy

“In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!”

Looks Bigs Issues Details Tiny Debate Big Picture

Author:Vandana Shiva

“I think you can maintain two tracks. I think you have to. That's what this kind of filmmaking is about. If you're not aware of the limitations of what you're up against... it's like a general: you have to know your artillery and you have to know your infantry. You have to know what you have. You have to marshal your forces and use them well. It comes down to the personal and the intimate, but at the same time you have to have the big picture.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Kind Two Use Bigs Force Track Limitation Intimate Filmmaking Big Picture Artillery Infantry

Author:Oliver Stone

“One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how they play out on real people's lives, with real individuals.”

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Author:Ben H. Winters

“I didn't have time to deal with practicing in a way that I would have liked to. I wish I could have just said, "I've got four to five hours every day that I'm going to go deal with music." I just didn't' have that. I missed a lot of lessons, but I think that maybe was frustrating to me in a big picture sense of, I need the time and energy to put into my instrument.”

Thinking Way Needs Said Bigs Energy Wish Hours Deals Five Four Lessons Instruments Frustrating Big Picture Time And Energy

Author:Jon Gordon

“The media loves to spend a lot of time talking about itself and do a lot of navel-gazing, which the general public isn't quite that interested in. They aren't really particularly concerned with whether our feelings are hurt or the things that we complain about. They have their own lives and their own jobs that are difficult as well. I think where the media has gotten itself in trouble is the sense that they're much more interested in things like parsing words and getting into fights about little minutia, as opposed to stepping back and seeing what the big picture is.”

Thinking Feelings Fighting Difficult Hurt Trouble Concerned Complaining Big Picture

Author:Amy Walter

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