Big Picture Thinking Quotes

“If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy. Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure and equate the universe, which just wont be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Big Things Happen When You Do the Little Things Right”
― Don Gabor, Big Things Happen When You Do the Little Things Right: A 5-Step Program to Turn Your Dreams into Reality

“What we want to do in this moment is rarely what's best for us. We need to take a longer view of life and to realize that to become someone worth becoming, I probably need to be doing things I don't want to be doing.”
― Vince Antonucci, Guerrilla Lovers: Changing the World With Revolutionary Compassion

“If my method for meeting the needs of God's people is to satisfy the need with the loudest voice, I can be assured that many important needs will go unmet.”
― Charlie Peacock, At the Crossroads: An Insider's Look at the Past, Present, and Future of Contemporary Christian Music

“Our species is more than just seven billion individuals spread out across the planet. We’re something more like a single vast superorganism because what your friends know and love as you is really a neural network embedded in a far larger web of other neural networks. If we want our civilization to have a bright future we need to understand how human brains interact, the dangers and the opportunities, because there’s no avoiding the truth that’s etched into our neural circuitry—we need each other”
― David Eagleman

“If you want to be a big-picture thinker, you will have to go against the flow of the world. Society wants to keep people in boxes. Most people are married mentally to the status quo. They want what was, not what can be. They seek safety and simple answers. To think big-picture, you need to give yourself permission to go a different way, to break new ground, to find new worlds to conquer. And when your world does get bigger, you need to celebrate. Never forget there is more out there in the world than what you’ve experienced.”
― John C. Maxwell, How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“What about the details? You were going to teach me about the details,'
'This is about the big picture, you ought to know that.' His arm slides across the table and just for a moment, the tips of our fingers touch.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“What about the details? You were going to teach me about the details.'
'This is about the big picture, you ought to know that.' His arm slides across the table and just for a moment, the tips of our fingers touch.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“If your life is filled with mistakes, you should know that you are not looking at events, people, philosophies, in short, everything from a distance, and not gaining a more comprehensive view and not gaining more accurate information about where things are going! Being able to see the big picture, not the small one, saves us from mistakes!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan