Bigger Picture Quotes - Page 2

• I think it happens to a lot of people who make music just on a computer by themselves, you don't see the bigger picture. You don't see the forest for the trees. You're looking at every tree so closely, and every tree looks so cool. But you're making a forest, man, you're not making a tree.

  Eef Barzelay

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We live in a world of empty spectacle, the world of spectacle rock, songs you can't remember, it's all about the expression of money, power and kind of empty and fascistic. Where technology has changed society, where people are not using their brains as much, not seeing the bigger picture but constantly looking down at the cellphone and not seeing the bigger picture. Today's songwriter need to be on outside, find their own trip if you will and find a way to connect from a place that no one has heard before. It might be taken as weird but that is what makes it unique.

  Don McLean

  Song, Taken, Unique

  Interview with Keith Chagall, centurycity.news.

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• There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution. Whereas reformists are winning small gains, revolutionaries don't want people to be satisfied with those small victories because they worry this will lead to acceptance of the bigger picture of capitalism domination, and so they find a way to turn every victory into a defeat. In the book, I call for a culture of declaring victory wherever we can.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Book, Acceptance, Winning

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We are always centered in the middle of chaos. It never goes away. It's important to find your inner peace. For me, it's literally looking at the bigger picture. When I think about the size of the universe, I feel like any problems I'm surrounded by are so small. I just do my best to react to chaos with love, and hopefully, other people will catch on and do things out of love too.

  Melanie Iglesias

  Thinking, People, Inner Peace

  "Melanie Iglesias: The Practice of Happiness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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• I wouldn't want to put myself up for something that I didn't think I could do a good job on. I wouldn't to direct material I didn't feel I could serve, but I don't have anything against doing bigger pictures.

  Kurt Voss

  Jobs, Thinking, Want

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• So in many ways, the bombing at the end of this year and the terrorist attack of last year in Peshawar have bookended both those years in a very unfortunate way. But at a bigger picture since, the impression in Pakistan is that things are actually improving on the terrorism front quite dramatically.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Years, Pakistan, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Cry Baby is a character so I think that the next album is going to be about a specific thing in her life or another place in her world. It's going to be a bit deeper into a bigger picture.

  Melanie Martinez

  Baby, Character, Thinking

  Source: lithiummagazine.com

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• What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.

  Isaac Marion

  Weight, Bigger

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Try to look at the bigger picture. The majority of people you date will not be your destination. They were meant to be a bridge. So find the lesson, the growth opportunity so you don't have to keep repeating your pattern and crossing that same bridge over and over again. Once you learn what you need to learn and become more self-aware and emotionally healthy, you will then cross another bridge, and one day you'll get to your destination.

  Amy Chan

  Opportunity, People, Healthy

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I started out writing largely about my own sex life, but I always tried to bring that around to the bigger picture, and how I was or wasn't in sync with the rest of the culture. And I think people appreciated that I was frank and honest about sex, but also political.

  Rachel Kramer Bussel

  Sex, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• It was such a bigger picture [ Westworld] than what I thought it was. It's more of a revolution than a TV show.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Tv Shows, Revolution, Tvs

  Source: collider.com

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• Virginia," Billy said urgently. "Don't do this." "Shut up,Billy." "Think of the people in San Francisco." "I don't know any of the people in San Francisco," Virginia answered, then paused. "Well,actually I do,and I don't like them. But I do like you,Billy, and I'm not going to allow you to end up as lunch for some raggedy lion-monster-thingy." "A sphinx," Machiavelli corrected her. He was standing at the bars again. "Mistress Dare," the Italian said carefully. "I absolutely applaud you for what you want to do for your friend. But I urge you to think of the bigger picture.

  Michael Scott

  Thinking, Italian, Lunch

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• It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.

  Charles de Lint

  Way, Sometimes, Bigger

  Tanith Lee, Kara Dalkey, Charles De Lint, Pamela Dean (2006). “Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy”, p.133, Penguin

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• I don't want to go to a foreign country and get lumped into that genre. I'm just looking at the bigger picture. This K-pop title might be good for now, but looking ahead it could hold me back, like a prison of sort. I'm a little wary about that.

  G-Dragon

  Country, Might, Titles

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• When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.

  Michel Gondry

  Thinking, Actors, Want

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• We normally know Jesus as a humble, loving servant, which He is. But Revelations gives us the bigger picture of who Jesus is, in His glory.

  Jud Wilhite

  Jesus, Humble, Giving

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• It's so hard to raise money for independent films and the fact of the matter is that the bigger my star or whatever is, as a result of doing bigger pictures, the easier it is for me to get money for my own projects.

  Edward Burns

  Stars, Independent, Matter

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• Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends.

  Sandra Bullock

  Integrity, Mouths, Bigger

  "Sandra Bullock to Lauer: On adoption". "The Today Show" with Matt Lauer, www.newsday.com.

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• When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, its a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.

  John Bradley-West

  War, Two, People

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• The bigger picture is that over the last 30 years, we have spent $1 trillion waging a drug war that has failed in any meaningful way to reduce drug addiction or abuse, and yet has siphoned an enormous amount of resources away from other public services, especially education.

  Michelle Alexander

  Meaningful, War, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The trouble with improv is that it is often about being funny in the moment without any real consideration for the bigger picture.

  Simon Pegg

  Real, Trouble, Moments

  Source: collider.com

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• I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Danger, Should

  Interview with Jamie Soja, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

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• One concern I had while I was working actively in the intelligence community - being someone who had broad access, who was exposed to more reports than average individuals, who had a better understanding of the bigger picture - was that the post - World War II, post - Cold War directions of societies were either broadly authoritarian or [broadly] liberal or libertarian.

  Edward Snowden

  War, Average, Community

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I'd like to see education play a larger role in our daily lives, have people come to a larger understanding - a "bigger picture" understanding - of how we fit into the world, and how we fit into the universe. Not necessarily thinking of ourselves, but thinking of others.

  George Lucas

  Thinking, Play, People

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for quite a long period of time, and then at some point it's no longer there - and so, when you look at that bigger picture, yes, you realize that either you change and adapt, or, as a species, you go extinct.

  Louise Leakey

  Thinking, Long, Looks

  "Louise Leakey: Where Did Human Beings Originate?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 24, 2014.

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