Big Picture Quotes

• 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

  Self Esteem, Important, Purpose

  "22 Words of Wisdom from Voice of Reason, Miley Cyrus". www.hollywoodreporter.com.

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• 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.

  Tiger Woods

  Mistake, Pride, Keys

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• However tight things are, you still need to have the big picture at the forefront of your mind.

  Richard Branson

  Challenges, Mind, Needs

  Richard Branson (1998). “Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way”, Crown Pub

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• When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mma, Details, Attention

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• The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Perspective, Perception, Looks

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.21, Random House

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• May you find INSPIRATION in the big picture, but may you find LOVE in the details.

  Adrienne Maloof

  Inspiration, Finding Love, Details

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• 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

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Tunnels

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• If you just focus on the smallest details, you will never get the big picture right.

  Leroy Hood

  Focus, Details, Bigs

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• Details create the big picture.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Details, Economy, Attention To Detail

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• Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Comfort, Strive, Bigs

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• 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

  Eye, Hands, People

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• Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Pain, Writing, Epic

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

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• The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

  Simon Sinek

  Distance, Bigs

  "The Big Picture". www.askmen.com.

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• 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

  Life, Steps, Looks

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dark, Valleys, Sunny

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• 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

  Attitude, People, Perspective

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• 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

  Firsts, Bigs, Basics

  Alfie Kohn (2000). “The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's important to have a plan, a big picture. You can deviate from it or change it completely, but it gives you something to work for.

  Shannon Miller

  Motivational, Giving, Important

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• Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Long, Judgment

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• 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

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you.

  Andy Andrews

  Successful, Trying, Tiny

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• 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

  Heart, Two, Numbers

  "Max Lucado on Storytelling, the Church, and Politics". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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• The big picture is that there is no big picture.
  That's why we keep painting it.

  Ronald Sukenick

  Painting, Bigs

  Ronald Sukenick (1986). “The Endless Short Story”, p.39, University of Alabama Press

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• Enjoyment of life is not based on enjoyable circumstances. It is an attitude of the heart, a decision to enjoy everything because everything - even little, seemingly insignificant things - have a part in the overall "big picture" of life.

  Joyce Meyer

  Attitude, Heart, Insignificant Things

  Joyce Meyer (1996). “Enjoying where You are on the Way to where You are Going: Learning how to Live a Joyful Spirit-led Life”

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• 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

  Love, Goal, Needs

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