Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

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

And Clinton was like that - he saw the whole playing field. He didn't just see the event that he was at or the circumstances of that week or that month. He saw the whole playing field all the time.

I look at everything from 100,000 feet.

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

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.

Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

Details create the big picture.

I am a bigger-picture manager because I've lived through something that's a big picture.

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

If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.

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.

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

Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw.

Live your life with a purpose beyond yourself, and you'll find that the world is as bold and broad as the interests that brought you here.

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.

If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture.

Those who grasp the whole, will also comprehend all parts of that whole, even when immediate technical understanding is lacking, and recognize and marshal these.

Life is a million different dots making one gigantic picture. And maybe the big picture is nice, maybe it's amazing, but if you're standing with your face pressed up against a bunch of black dots, it's really hard to tell.

Treat the world like a head.

We must learn how to think like the planet.