Whole Picture Quotes

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.

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

Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen...One can listen better if one sees the whole.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.

life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!

I don't talk about what happened after one game or the other. We look at a season as a whole picture.

I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

My scripts are always filled with notes. I like to just analyze everything from the point of view of the whole picture, of the movie, my whole picture.

My need is about communicating the whole, and when the whole is there in the text and in what the actors are doing, then it doesn't need 'frou-frou,' as I call it.

I think for a lot of artists, if you're lucky enough to have a kind of career, especially toward the end, you start to think about what the whole ensemble looks like. It's the whole that counts. The parts are given, but you don't know how the whole thing's going to look when it's all put together.

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

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the individual episode because, by far, the vaster sector of the project's lifespan will be in complete book form rather than the singles.

My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

Acting is a talent, but I like to see the whole picture.

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

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward 'Gestalt' and the 'Twist', and lived to tell the tale.

Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one. "The only people who can see the whole picture," he murmured, "are the ones who step out of the frame."

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

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

I've always stayed on the periphery of things. When I used to go to the punk clubs and things like that, I was never up front. I always wanted to be in the back, or on the side, because I wanted to get the whole view, rather than be staring up at someone's nostrils.