Sanford I. Weill Quotes

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.

If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

You need to pay attention to the little things as well as the big things.

In life, you always look at the total picture, not just a segment of it.

My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more important than the big picture. Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality.

In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!

We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.

If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.

‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

You have to have a macro outlook, see the film in totality, whether it will resonate with people or not.

Sometimes you need to be aware of the bigger picture you are missing.

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.

Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

We're focusing on the whole pie, not a slice. A slice is good, but it's not good enough to get you fat. We're trying to get fat.

A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.

When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.

I'm prickly. I fuss over every single detail.

Saw fans are manic, when it comes to details, so they're going to say, "Wait a minute! Why is that like that? It wasn't like that before." And, they're right.

An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them is quite likely to dismiss his business. Success is the sum of detail. It might perhaps be pleasing to imagine oneself beyond detail and engaged only in great things, but as I have often observed, if one attends only to great things and lets the little things pass the great things become little; that is, the business shrinks.

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 fine.