Broader Context Quotes

Lieutenant General Michael Flynn would fit into that broader pattern.

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

When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really gives pause to wonder what and who we are within a larger framework than linear adventures at the shopping mall and taxes.

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.

Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture.

The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.

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

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

I wanted to present a sweep and scope of larger events, and a grander backdrop, but most important was to set against that a very singular, real and modest people struggling with every day and human struggles.

It's funny: your happiness is contingent on a bigger picture besides just yourself.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.

Pushing ahead with a self-emancipatory agenda is critical, but we must do so fully conscious of this broader context of our development efforts.

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.

I'm looking to see what the bigger picture is.

It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context.

It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.

It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.