Broad View Quotes

I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature.

We have a tendency in America to deal with foreign affairs on a day by day basis. We are so saturated with facts that we do no look at a longer, broader picture.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look.

When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

An artist should have more than two eyes.

Life is about perspective and how you look at something... ultimately, you have to zoom out.

The gull sees farthest who flies highest

Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far away.

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

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

We take things at face value, don't we? You form an opinion about something immediately, but you ought to step back a bit. Take in the vista first.

It’s hard to see the whole picture when you are in the frame.

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

I don't see things from a worm's perspective but a bird's perspective. I smile at problems.

You know, my view is that we have a big world out there.

Look down from as high as possible. Look ahead as far as you can see. Then decide what to do.

I know the whole world is watching now. And I wish the world could see what I can see. Sometimes you have to get up really high to understand how small you really are. I'm going home now.

There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

'Ninnu Kori' urges us to take a broader view of life, look past stumbling blocks, and rise above self sympathy.

You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance.

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

I look at everything from 100,000 feet.