Simon Sinek
Author, Motivational Speaker
"The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time."
Big Picture quotes
Big Picture
11 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Anne Lamott
Author, Essayist
"If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching."
Ellen DeGeneres
Comedian, Television Host
"One rough patch is not the big picture."
Oliver Stone
Filmmaker, Screenwriter
"The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you try to find that. I'm doing in the cinema what historians try to do in their own media."
Julie James
Author
"You are not just a big-picture girl for me, Brooke Parker. You’re the only picture."
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