Whole Picture Quotes

• life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!

  Terry McMillan

  Jigsaw Puzzles, Life Is Like, Together

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• It’s hard to see the whole picture when you are in the frame.

  Les Brown

  Hard, Whole

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• We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.

  Pope Francis

  Impatient, Anxious, Whole

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• If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes to you that does not have a purpose in your life, that cannot contribute to your inner growth.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Growth, Doe, Purpose

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.9, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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  We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.

  Tony Dungy

  Religious, Often Can, Religion

  FaceBook post by Tony Dungy from Nov 07, 2011

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• I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It's a question of picking out what one wants from nature.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Nature, Want, Sometimes

  Vincent van Gogh, Douglas Cooper (1938). “Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in the fabric; it can even, after a time, cope with major disasters like floods, fires, and earthquakes. What nature cannot cope with is the steady undermining of its fabric by the activities of man.

  Gerald Durrell

  Men, Fire, Ecosystems

  Gerald Durrell (1989). “The Amateur Naturalist”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Joy, Harmony, Heal

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• You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can see the whole picture and finally understand the role each individual part plays. The dawn comes, the sky grows light, and the colors and shapes of the roofs of houses, which you could only glimpse vaguely before, come into focus.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Light, Color

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• I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

  Lisa See

  Thinking, People, Adults

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• I have things that I'm interested in, and I'm not really interested in writing about anything that I'm not interested in. But it's important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Perspective, Important

  Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. March 31, 2008.

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• I love being able to be the artist of the whole picture, as opposed to just one of the brushes.

  Zachary Levi

  Artist, Love Is, Able

  "Zachary Levi on Nerd HQ’s Return to Comic-Con and Who’s Coming with Him". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2016.

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• 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.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Christian, Suffering, Doe

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• In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truth-like and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state. Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Dream, Memories

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.46, 谷月社

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• We have a problem with several media taking only a part of the reality and not the whole picture. Some media in the world are more critical towards what's happening than others. It depends on the journalist, it depends how much information they have about the case and which perspective they are asking you from. All of these things can play a role.

  Ahmed Akkari

  Reality, Media, Play

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• The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture in completion.

  Arthur Fry

  Creativity, Creative, Mind

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• Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

  Julia Leigh

  Movie, Together, Directors

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• Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Eye, Sun, Cameras

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• Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture...what are your options and what is the best thing to do? In football, you are mostly reacting from a defensive point of view...but you always want to be counterattacking...a similarity with chess strategy. Chess and offensive football are quite similar; you sacrifice something now to get something back later.

  Barney Chavous

  Sports, Football, Exercise

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• A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may not be running the entire race. A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the "ninety-five yard dash." That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the last five yards makes the first ninety-five pointless. In fact, serious runners thing of it as a 110 yard dash so that no one will best them in the last few yards. You've got to think beyond the whole.

  Max De Pree

  Friendship, Running, Thinking

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• Our revolution is like Wikipedia, okay? Everyone is contributing content, [but] you don't know the names of the people contributing the content. This is exactly what happened. Revolution 2.0 in Egypt was exactly the same. Everyone is contributing small pieces, bits and pieces. We drew this whole picture of a revolution. And no one is the hero in that picture.

  Wael Ghonim

  Hero, Egypt, Names

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• Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.

  John Lennon

  Flower, Yellow, White

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If we take two people who have exactly the same sort of lesion or area of damage in the brain and then we do cognitive tests on them, you know, one person might have a very severe deficit in a certain area of thinking and another person might not with the same exact lesion. So there is a lot of differences and you can't just look at one brain and understand the whole picture.

  H. A. Berlin

  Thinking, Two, Differences

  "Heather Berlin on the Link Between Genius and Disorder". bigthink.com.

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• You have to take in the whole picture, and ask, "What is it you want? What kind of world do you want?" So, I have drawings of different cities. Those cities have an end goal; they're not just cities. The end goal of those cities is to make things relevant to people that they respond to. There's no other way.

  Jacque Fresco

  Cities, Drawing, Goal

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• I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi - the least omission may distort the whole picture.

  Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

  Omission, Path, Pitfalls

  "The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll". Book by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, 1898.

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