Overview Quotes

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

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

No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area.

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

If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

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

I don't have a directorial overview, which sometimes is very helpful.

If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.

What I learned in school, what I learned in the educational part of my life. Trying to acquire a kind of a bird's eye view. You drive hard and see everything. And that's called education because now you can see everything.

One should be constantly looking for the broader vision.

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

I'm good at the broad strokes but hopeless at the details.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

The Universe in a Nutshell

My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.

As a director, you realise the bigger picture.

Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.

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

We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal conclusions and computations, which we traverse blindly, link by link, feeling our way by touch. We want first an overview of the aim and of the road; we want to understand the idea of the proof, the deeper context.

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

People don't look at the broader picture a lot of the time.

It's hard to take your life so seriously when you can see it all at once.

I generally feel like people that are doing the wardrobe know more about wardrobe than I do, and they have an overview.