Big Picture Quotes - Page 6

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.

William Monahan

Writing, Kids, Blood

Source: collider.com

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We weren't friends[...]We were more like jigsaw pieces, each of us part of the same big picture. There are people like this wherever you go. They are part of the same mystery as you are, but you can't quite tell how you fit together. The world is a puzzle, and we can't solve it alone.

Daniel Handler

People, Together, Pieces

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I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

Richard Powers

Bigs, Seems

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You are not just a big-picture girl for me, Brooke Parker. You’re the only picture.

Julie James

Girl, Bigs

Julie James (2013). “Love Irresistibly”, p.146, Penguin

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I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.

Leonard Nimoy

Sympathy, Heart, Doctors

"Star Trek: The Immunity Syndrome". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1968.

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In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose that's prospectively boring to strangers.

Lionel Shriver

Writing, People, Finals

"So Much For That". Interview with Bret Anthony Johnston, www.nationalbook.org. 2010.

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Eddie sees the big picture. He's clearly got a vision of how to make this thing the big event. And he never stops working. The minute [the tournament] is completed, he'll be thinking about next year.

Susan Collins

Thinking, Years, Vision

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You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don't wait to react to the immediate problem. Plan ahead. Look at the big picture and you won't ever have to deal with that problem. Better to save yourself from a major catastrophe than drag your feet over a bunch of little inconveniences.

Richelle Mead

Feet, Waiting, Alchemist

Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.74, Penguin

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The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it's privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In Econ 101, they teach that the big-picture fight over national priorities is guns versus butter. Now it's butter versus margarine—guns get a pass. Overall, we're weaker for it, and at enormous cost.

Rachel Maddow

Fighting, Gun, America

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Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

Lurlene McDaniel

People, Glimpse, Facts

Lurlene McDaniel (2009). “Breathless”, p.138, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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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

Perspective, Guy, Brain

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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.

Al Sharpton

Kings, Vision, Drs

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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

Song, Thinking, Artist

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

Work, Believe, Careers

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Mom. She always says to look at the big picture. How all of the little things don't matter in the long run. . . I know that Mom is right about the big picture. But Dad is right too: Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other. The dots matter.

Rebecca Stead

Mom, Running, Dad

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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

Shoes, People, Important

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I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?

Spencer W. Kimball

Mother, Home, Priceless

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With so much sky and so much river, you couldn't help seeing the big picture. It was what you already knew, but crowding into the subway or rushing to a movie, you only saw it for a second, and close up. Now I took a good long look. I'd always heard you couldn't see stars in Manhattan because of all the lights. But here they all were. Here was my night in shining armor.

Melissa Bank

Stars, Night, Light

Melissa Bank (2006). “The Wonder Spot”, p.313, Penguin

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Still, these days when I daydream about the movie, I don't think about the big picture. It's more fun for me to think of little things that would add to the movie. I like to think the powers that be would let me amuse myself with some small things in order to shut me up while they re-write the screenplay to turn Kvothe into a lesbian, shape-changing unicorn.

Patrick Rothfuss

Fun, Writing, Thinking

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The ethics of excellence requires a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment you might mortgage the future? What happens if you put your reputation at risk and lose the bet?

Price Pritchett

Future, Perspective, Entrepreneur

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...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very small, discrete parts and assign each person to do only one of the many parts. In so doing, companies run the risk of taking away employees' sense of the big picture, purpose, and sense of completion.

Dan Ariely

Running, Business, Technology

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I think I've always had the shots. But in the past, I've suffered too many mental lapses. Now, I'm starting to get away from that and my mental discipline and commitment to the game are much better. I think I'm really taking a good look at the big picture. That's the difference between being around for the final or watching the final from my sofa at home.

Pele

Inspirational, Sports, Home

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Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human condition that something as precious as the future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that's what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you're young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture.

Simon Pegg

Children, Decisions We Make, Details

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Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.

Sophie Kinsella

Knowing, Answers, Next

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It’s never something huge that changes the everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you’re busy focusing on the big picture.

Sarah Dessen

Balance, Details, Busy

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.24, Penguin

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