Big Picture Quotes - Page 7

• 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.

  William H. Macy

  Mind, Tiny, Directors

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• 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.

  Puff Daddy

  Birthday, Book, Cake

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• 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.

  Frank Grillo

  Jobs, Character, Actors

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• 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

  Oil, Missing, Trying

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Looks

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• Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad?

  Frank Gehry

  May, Way, Bigs

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• In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.

  Paul Keating

  Australia, May, Opponents

  Election Concession Speech, australianpolitics.com. March 02, 1996.

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• Although you do look at the big picture, if you're dealing with the now, it can be kind of frustrating. You're losing basketball games, things not going the way you want it to go or should go, but at the same time we've just got to stay with it. Just stay positive, just stay focused, as a team, as a unit, because the ship easily can sink early.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Team, Games

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• Trust is always a factor. You've just got to look at the big picture, and you've got to look at the small picture - the small picture in the sense that you've got to make every scene work and you've got to deal with what people are presenting you with, too.

  Willem Dafoe

  People, Looks, Scene

  "Willem Dafoe Talks OUT OF THE FURNACE, Playing Conflicted Characters, Bringing an Eastern European Flair to His Character, and Future Projects". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 6, 2013.

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• 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

  Motivational, Pain, Work

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• 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

  Thinking, Mind, Directors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm just thrilled for so many people. Our players, mostly, but the people in our organization - Rick Welts, Joe Lacob and Peter Guber and the whole group. It's just a phenomenal group of people. I think as a coach you just appreciate kind of the big picture a little bit more.

  Steve Kerr

  Player, Thinking, Nba Championships

  "Game Quotes: Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors - June 16". Interview, www.nba.com. June 17, 2015.

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• 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

  Believe, Reality, Perspective

  "How a 3-D printed arm gave hope to boy maimed in bomb blast" by Mick Ebeling, www.cnn.com. March 19, 2014.

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• My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first [compost] heap.

  Bette Midler

  Waiting, Firsts, Kind

  "Singing the Praises of Composting" by Jodi Wilgoren, articles.latimes.com. May 8, 1996.

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• 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.

  Michal Rovner

  Reality, Greek, Landscape

  "Michal Rovner, Into the Night". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2016.

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• What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Thinking, Skills

  "Oprah Talks to Daniel Pink". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2008.

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• 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.

  Richard Curtis

  Compassion, Two, People

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• I've had small parts in big pictures and big parts in small pictures.

  Candy Darling

  Bigs, Small Parts

  Candy Darling (2015). “Candy Darling: Memoirs of an Andy Warhol Superstar”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Inspire, Plot

  "Moving Pictures". Book by Terry Pratchett, www.theguardian.com. 1990.

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• Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.

  Harvey Mackay

  Friday, Monday, Morning

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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• Cognitive skills such as big-picture thinking and long-term vision were particularly important. But when I calculated the ratio of technical skills, IQ, and emotional intelligence as ingredients of excellent performance, emotional intelligence proved to be twice as important as the others for jobs at all levels.

  Daniel Goleman

  Jobs, Emotional, Thinking

  Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee (2015). “HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence (with featured article "What Makes a Leader?" by Daniel Goleman)(HBR's 10 Must Reads)”, p.3, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Anger is a little thing. Hate is a little thing. Order is a little thing. Each of these little things has a major impact on the big picture. Right thinking, right action, and right response to the little things will help us conquer the big things, like injustice, inequality, poverty, and disorder. Until we are each able to conquer and master the little things in our lives, the big things will remain undone.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hate, Thinking, Impact

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• My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more important than the big picture. Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality.

  Dieter Rams

  Heart, Important, Quality

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• An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist.

  Vera Nazarian

  Believe, Reality, Track

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• I need to live up to my potential, wherever that may be, in all aspects of my life. My head gets in the way, and I need to look at the big picture - that this is the best, and I am living my dream.

  Chris Cole

  Dream, Needs, Looks

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