Welcome to Big Picture Quotes, your ultimate destination for insightful and inspiring quotes that capture the essence of life, love, wisdom, and more. Here, we delve into the profound words of thinkers, leaders, and visionaries from around the world, distilling their wisdom into powerful nuggets that resonate with the human experience.
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I’m interested in the history of the soul: the everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits – or disdains. Svetlana Alexievich
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
Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture. Mickey Spillane
I look at the big picture and try not to create with ego. Frank Dukes
In the big picture, it doesn’t really matter if we never made a record, or we never sang a song. That isn’t important. George Harrison
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
A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don’t see a big picture for our lives. We don’t love ourselves. We don’t have a way of kind of gauging the future, so we count it lost. Jennifer Holliday
We get divided generationally and in other ways – libertarians versus more traditional social conservatives, for example – and we’ve got to provide some flexibility there. But we don’t need to have quite so many litmus tests. We need to have our big picture focused on economic issues. Asa Hutchinson
The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward. Ryan Lochte
I can be among the general public and next to me is a big picture of my face, but no one notices apart from my friends. Ben Howard
I’m very visionary, very big picture. Max Azria
Instead of serving special interests, Congress should focus on the big picture. Globalization and technology have completely reshaped our economy in recent decades, and if we don’t respond, we’re putting the future of the middle class at risk. John Delaney
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 follow the director’s lead because they generally know more about the big picture, but I also trust that the director will give me enough freedom to play. Yuri Lowenthal
When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like ‘Life of Look’, their career skyrocketed. As a photographer, you were very empowered; people came to you, bowing to you and what you represented. Douglas Kirkland
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
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this ‘big picture’ in vague concepts and words. Sunil Nagaraj
The big picture goal is legacy. It’s knowing that when I’m done, what I’ve done has changed the industry in some way and made an impact in some way. Tommaso Ciampa
Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn’t looking down at a device in their hands? We’ve become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us. Regina Brett
I don’t think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera. Steve Vai
I need a big picture. I can’t just do a collection of songs; that doesn’t work for me. Steven Van Zandt
Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process. Michael Ignatieff
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. Mick Ebeling
Artists are neurotic and hypersensitive, and they tend to focus on granular details, sometimes at the expense of the big picture. I’ve gotten better at the big picture over the years. Travis Knight
I’m not a ‘big picture’ sort of guy. I prefer making small improvements each day. Luke Donald
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
I think that the fact of the matter is that metal isn’t really part of the big picture of the gay, lesbian, transgender music scene. But it’s certainly there. There’s gay metalheads all over the world. Rob Halford
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
Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It’s about the big picture. Ed Wood
After formulating and communicating the right strategy and optimizing operations to execute that strategy, CEOs and other top leaders then must be able to build management teams that truly understand the big picture. Mark V. Hurd
We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts. Suze Orman
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
In the big picture, we see WeLive as a huge opportunity, as big as WeWork, for sure. Miguel McKelvey
I’ve been very hands-on with everything I’ve done since I had my children. And it’s just really important for me to understand the big picture, where everybody’s coming from, what’s the real purpose of this shoot and this song, or whatever it is in that moment that I’m doing. Britney Spears
In business, I can get the big picture, thebig ideas, but not the finer details. I am good at delegating, however, and trusting the people to whom I do delegate. Tony Hadley
You’re not always going to get the outcomes you feel like your talent deserves, that you feel like the big picture deserves. And what’s real is how do you respond in those situations? Theo Epstein
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
Details create the big picture. Sanford I. Weill
We tend to talk about the world in a myriad of ways – a microscopic world of elementary particles, a biological world of organisms and evolution, a social world of morality and meaning. But it’s all the same underlying world. That’s the underlying theme of ‘The Big Picture.’ Sean M. Carroll
I believe that sometimes, when we talk about books, we’re talking about the big picture – how they’re relevant. Meg Wolitzer
Chip is the risk-taker. He’s all about the big picture but with a get-it-done attitude, and sometimes I’d rather play it safe and really focus my energy on the details. Joanna Gaines
That may be one of the qualities a lot of owners have. They thrive on times that are challenging and changing because you have to grasp the big picture. Jim Irsay
I don’t believe in careers. I believe in work. I’m not interested in some ‘big picture that would be really good for me’. Debra Winger
I think the best mood for writing is a heavy feeling that’s a little bit removed from you. Sometimes I feel very self-indulgent and bratty and ungrateful, and no good music comes out of that. But sometimes I can be really sad or have an excess of feeling yet somehow be able to see the big picture more. Perfume Genius
For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was seeing things from a big picture, from beginning to middle to end: making a costume, doing voices, writing a script, making it all happen. Noel Wells
I am a bigger-picture manager because I’ve lived through something that’s a big picture. Sheryl Sandberg
I put little goals in place every day, and I think if you can kind of keep to the small things it’s easier to capture the big picture at the end. Xander Schauffele
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
We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels. Silvia Cartwright
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
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
It’s the whole big picture that we have to look at to create an organization that wins over the long term. And to just shoot from the hip on a decision based on winning over a 10-game period. No, that doesn’t make sense. Henry Samueli
To me, life is a bit of everything. I have the band, I have my kids. Life is a big picture. It’s not just your career. Dolores O’Riordan
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. Xun Kuang
When I started making films, all the theaters, the screen would slide open the widest possible point, and that would be widescreen. But now, theaters are geared up for around 16:9, so scope is now ‘letterboxed.’ In a way, if you want the big picture, you shoot 16:9. David MacKenzie
In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it’s nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar. Lionel Shriver
A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don’t see a big picture for our lives. We don’t love ourselves. We don’t have a way of kind of gauging the future. Jennifer Holliday
If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right. Leroy Hood
I played with Eddy Curry twice and in New York, the second time, he asked, ‘Who are you?’ My first to fourth year I was a different person. I started thinking big picture, that maybe I don’t have all the answers. Jamal Crawford
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?’ Gabe Newell
I think, as a writer, you see the big picture, and as an actor, you’re thinking of all the minutiae, all the very small details. Richard Dormer
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
I want to create a life that is just healthy and peaceful – an enclave, really, of retreat. It’s not helpful for the big picture. It’s totally selfish to run away like that. Phil Elverum
Baseball is a game based on adversity. It’s a game that’s going to test you repeatedly. It’s going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve. Theo Epstein
I often avoid using the terms ‘figuration’ and ‘abstraction’ because I’ve always tried to have it both ways. I want the experience of looking at one of my paintings to be similar to the process of making the painting – you go from the big picture to something very intense and detailed, and then back again. Cecily Brown
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
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. Chuck Palahniuk
Food justice must be incorporated into the city’s long term and big picture planning efforts. Michelle Wu
It’s funny because I think everybody when they see me, the first thing they say is, ‘Man, you could have been a heck of a basketball player.’ My response is, ‘I have a heck of a life.’ Basketball is such a minute thing in the big picture. I almost passed away at 21 years old. Jay Williams
I was a very curious young man in many different aspects. My curiosity about all the things that came with football became very strong and I wasn’t really prepared for that. So, it would have been quite nice to have someone who said, ‘It’s okay to be curious, but remember the big picture.’ Nicklas Bendtner
The September 11th, 2012, attacks on the State Department compound in Benghazi, Libya, is important and should be studied because in the big picture, it represents a failed foreign policy that spans across both Bush and Obama Presidencies. Brandon Webb
The big picture, for me, having grown up with ‘Top Gear,’ is that it was loved. We need to get that back. It needs to be an institution. Chris Harris
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
My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks. Padmasree Warrior
It’s hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Looking at the big picture, I know God put me in the right spot, with the right mentor. Tom Izzo
Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I’m a famous author in a country where no one reads. John Grisham
I want to start with small but definitive change; the big picture is too abstract. Park Won-soon
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
I am a micromanager, and I love being involved in every detail of my life, but in the big picture, you realize how little control you have. ‘Air I Breathe’ is about those moments of surrender where you get to something that is bigger than you, and you don’t have answers for it. Mat Kearney
I really think the mind of someone who hasn’t been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I’d like to do a big picture with an unknown director. Joan Severance
I think that one of the things that I can do is I seem to have the ability to zoom in super tight for very small details, but then jump back for sort of that big picture perspective. And I think that ultimately, that’s one of my strengths, because you have – every detail matters. Henry Selick
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
Hef is a man of the big picture. He is a creative force. Christie Hefner
To be part of the big picture, whether it’s celebrity interviews or seeing how big the U.S. Open is in New York or on the world stage, is amazing. Pam Shriver
My thought process when I’m on the court is always thinking about getting better, and thinking about how I’m playing. Thinking about it as a process, as the big picture and what I need to work on, instead of being close-minded and thinking, ‘I’m so nervous and have to win this match, if I don’t, it’ll be the worst.’ Madison Keys
Scientists tend to come in two stripes: those who have tremendous appetite and aptitude for the details, and those who illuminate the big picture. Sagan was definitely in the latter category, and he was profoundly good at it. He made connections that others did not have the intellectual breadth or courage to make. Carolyn Porco
When you make that transition to being a head coach, there’s so much more you have to think of and consider. You’re constantly thinking, ‘How does this impact our culture? How does this impact us two, three steps down the road?’ It’s thinking big picture, and all of those things come with time. It’s a great challenge. Mike Budenholzer
Starting a business and building a product are not for the faint of heart. You have to learn to not let little disappointments get you down and to stay focused on the big picture. Gillian Tans
As a professional, you can afford to pick some stocks and be wrong about a few of them. To keep your job, you cannot take the risk of being seen to be wrong about the ‘big picture’ for very long. Jeremy Grantham
I don’t usually paint a big picture on what I’ll do in the future. Song Hye-kyo
I mean, I used to think of fashion design as a kind of art project, all creativity and passion. I wasn’t thinking ‘big picture’ at all. Whitney Port
The big picture doesn’t just come from distance; it also comes from time. Simon Sinek
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. Peter Hammill
To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing; it’s about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It’s about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge. Summer Sanders
‘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
It’s in all of our interests to keep pushing athletes to see the big picture, and that’s sometimes very difficult. Anne Donovan
I tend to gravitate toward reporters who cover all aspects of the story: from personal aspects to the big picture that answer the ‘so what’ of a story. James G. Stavridis
Some of the best songs that I know are the ones I haven’t written yet, and it doesn’t even matter if I don’t ever write them, because it’s only small potatoes compared with the big picture. George Harrison
I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. Richard Powers
