Big Picture Quotes

“Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto grudges, seek revenge, not forgive or show compassion, to categorize people as good or bad, to distrust and be guarded with your feelings then you didn’t learn a thing. God doesn’t bring you lessons to close your heart. He brings you lessons to open it, by developing compassion, learning to listen, seeking to understand instead of speculating, practicing empathy and developing conflict resolution through communication. If he brought you perfect people, how would you ever learn to spiritually evolve?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not. I took each element separately and never looked to see that they never did fit together properly”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Thinking incomplete knowledge of the industry presents a fuller picture.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Nothing is coincidence in strategical perception.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“As a genealogist, I have seen the Big Picture as very few have. Most people now living have no clue who they are or where they come from. We are all descended from the ancient kings of our various cultures. There is nothing unique about it. And let's be honest, most of those kings were pretty ruthless individuals. What's important for us today is that we wake up to the fact that we are all literally cousins. How would our world change if we honored that relationship and started treating one another as family?”
― Laurence Overmire, The Ghost of Rabbie Burns: An American Poet's Journey Through Scotland

“Vagueness is the kingdom of the devil and it is as such on purpose." - On Vagueness”
― Lamine Pearlheart

“In my perception and self - awareness of life, I see the big picture ~ I see my self ~ the place of my true home ~ the home of my soul.

You are the Master of your own life - The key and beauty of your soul.”
― Angie karan

“Nothing had just happened to her, she had made a choice, and then she had made another and another after that. Taken together, the small choices anyone made added up to a life.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions

“Science does a great job at reducing variables until they are small enough to be understood, but we aren't doing a great job at reassembling the picture once it has been broken down into a thousand pieces”
― Katy Bowman, Move Your DNA

“When the spotlight is on its too late to prepare. You'll only have two options: Sink or Swim”
― Germany Kent

“On the drive, I stick within sight of the water as it's always had a calming effect on me. Something about imaging what lurks beneath its surface, in depths that can't be seen, puts everything in perspective. It reminds me that we are all just small fish in a very big pond.”
― Melanie A. Smith, All of Me

“The bigger the picture, the more unique the potential human contribution. Our greatest strength is the exact opposite of narrow specialization. It is the ability to integrate broadly.

According to Gary Marcus, a psychology and neuroscience professor, who sold his machine learning company to Uber, "In narrow enough worlds, humans may not have much to contribute much longer.”
― David Epstein, Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World / Messy / The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“But he who seeks the flowers of truth
Must quit the garden for the field”
― Lord Byron, The poetical works of Lord Byron

“Big picture dreams broken down into smaller, more manageable parts unveil the steps that lead you to where you wan to go.”
― Richie Norton

“If you can't honestly support and be happy for others' success, you will block your own blessings because eventually envy and bitterness will consume you. ”
― Germany Kent

“We're so shit at seeing the Macro, and ultimately it's those macro uncoupling dynamics that matter more than anything else.”
― Mark Blyth

“5 BIGS Of My Life:
Dream Big! Work Big! Live Big! Give Big! and Die Big!”
― Lord Robin

“Lord Jesus,… I’m sorry for being so consumed with the business of fulfilling the small picture that I’ve missed the big picture—the ultimate picture of positioning my heart purposefully, quietly to welcome and receive all that You desire to pour within me.”
― Kim Meeder, Revival Rising: Embracing His Transforming Fire

“When a rock or a tree branch is placed in a river, the water's flow is altered a little. Have you not seen this? Our dances are pebbles and twigs, we make a little ripple in the great stream, that is all. Nothing leaves the river. This is how healing is accomplished.”
― Kate Constable, The Singer of All Songs

“Climbing is such a metaphor for life. It's like life itself is a project. Climbing has taught me to look at the big picture. It's taught me a lot about priorities.”
― Chris Noble, Women Who Dare

“I love to accompany the why to everything we do as this archetype looks for big-picture meaning. These athletes crave independence. When trust is built and the situation allows, it is OK to casually turn your back on the Free Spirit and let them be as they create, work, or put in a little extra time to hone their craft. Once the athlete is educated appropriately and has a high training age, including them on decisions regarding set and rep ranges will help this athlete take control of their training process.”
― Brett Bartholomew, Conscious Coaching: The Art and Science of Building Buy-In

“It is so easy to get frustrated and distracted, and in those small battles, it is tempting to feel like you are all alone and on your own. Then the fights, the holds, the kicks—they feel personal, and it’s hard to see past yourself. The trick is to see the bigger picture, the bigger message, even when it comes in a very little package, like a young girl.”
― Jen Welter, Play Big: Conquer Your Fears and Make Your Dreams a Reality - Lessons from the First Woman to Coach in the NFL

“Perhaps the fundamental precept of probabilistic analysis is the exhortation to take a bird’s-eye, distributional view of the situation under analysis (e.g., a dice game, the traffic in Boulder, crimes in Pittsburgh, the situation with that troublesome knee) and to define a sample space of all the possible events and their logical, set membership interrelations. This step is exactly where rational analysis and judgments based on availability, similarity, and scenario construction diverge: When we judge intuitively, the mind is drawn to a limited, systematically skewed subset of the possible events. In the case of scenario construction, for example, we are often caught in our detailed scenario—focused on just one preposterously specific outcome path.”
― Reid Hastie, Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making

“A hazy, fiery sunset fell upon the fountain waters, and the steady dripping reflected the clouds. All the flowers, all the pieces, all the fragments, blended into the bigger picture, and the picture became something of beauty.
But what if it was beautiful all along?”
― Ashley Clark, Where the Last Rose Blooms

“If your life is filled with mistakes, you should know that you are not looking at events, people, philosophies, in short, everything from a distance, and not gaining a more comprehensive view and not gaining more accurate information about where things are going! Being able to see the big picture, not the small one, saves us from mistakes!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Everything happens for a reason, whether it’s something you’re excited about or hate. It’s all for a purpose in the big picture. Knowing this, relax. Enjoy the process, trusting that it will somehow be used to make you stronger in the long run. Sometimes certain events are necessary for a grander opportunity to arise.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Everything happens for a reason, whether it’s something you’re excited about or not. It’s all for a purpose in the big picture. Knowing this, relax. Enjoy the process, trusting that it will somehow be used to make you stronger in the long run. Sometimes certain events are necessary for a grander opportunity to arise.”
― Brittany Burguner

“We rarely know the full impact of our journey on earth.”
― Laurie E. Smith