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The big picture goal is legacy. It's knowing that when I'm done, what I've done has changed the industry in some way and made an impact in some way.
Tommaso Ciampa
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Big Picture
Legacy
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I tend to gravitate toward reporters who cover all aspects of the story: from personal aspects to the big picture that answer the 'so what' of a story.
James G. Stavridis
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Big Picture
Reporters
Aspects
Cover
Gravitate
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That may be one of the qualities a lot of owners have. They thrive on times that are challenging and changing because you have to grasp the big picture.
Jim Irsay
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Big Picture
Owners
Thrive
Picture
Changing
Grasp
Qualities
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Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the big picture.
Martin Rees
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Astronomer
Big Picture
Focus
Risk
Sight
Timely
Picture
Occupational
Practising
Scientists
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I follow the director's lead because they generally know more about the big picture, but I also trust that the director will give me enough freedom to play.
Yuri Lowenthal
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Big Picture
Give Me
Picture
Follow
Generally
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It's what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it's an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view.
Gerry Beckley
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Musical Artist
Big Picture
Mean
Pressure
Trying
Views
Picture
View
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Chip is the risk-taker. He's all about the big picture but with a get-it-done attitude, and sometimes I'd rather play it safe and really focus my energy on the details.
Joanna Gaines
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Big Picture
Chip
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I want to create a life that is just healthy and peaceful - an enclave, really, of retreat. It's not helpful for the big picture. It's totally selfish to run away like that.
Phil Elverum
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Big Picture
Peaceful
Retreat
Selfish
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Starting a business and building a product are not for the faint of heart. You have to learn to not let little disappointments get you down and to stay focused on the big picture.
Gillian Tans
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Business
Big Picture
Building
Focused
Heart
Starting
Stay Focused
Little
Picture
Get
Stay
Disappointments
Down
Faint
Learn
Product
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I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I'm in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.
Story Musgrave
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Physician
Big Picture
Point Of View
Picture
Particularly
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You're not always going to get the outcomes you feel like your talent deserves, that you feel like the big picture deserves. And what's real is how do you respond in those situations?
Theo Epstein
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Manager
Big Picture
Outcomes
Always Your Talent
Respond
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Artists are neurotic and hypersensitive, and they tend to focus on granular details, sometimes at the expense of the big picture. I've gotten better at the big picture over the years.
Travis Knight
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Big Picture
Details
Neurotic
Expense
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A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don't see a big picture for our lives. We don't love ourselves. We don't have a way of kind of gauging the future.
Jennifer Holliday
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Future
Big Picture
Our Lives
Picture
Base
Circumstance
Times
Immediate
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Some of the best songs that I know are the ones I haven't written yet, and it doesn't even matter if I don't ever write them, because it's only small potatoes compared with the big picture.
George Harrison
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Musician
Big Picture
Matter
Potatoes
Picture
Compared
Small
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As a professional, you can afford to pick some stocks and be wrong about a few of them. To keep your job, you cannot take the risk of being seen to be wrong about the 'big picture' for very long.
Jeremy Grantham
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Investor
Big Picture
Risk
Afford
Pick
Professional
Stocks
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I think that the fact of the matter is that metal isn't really part of the big picture of the gay, lesbian, transgender music scene. But it's certainly there. There's gay metalheads all over the world.
Rob Halford
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Singer-Songwriter
Big Picture
Transgender
Lesbian
Metal
Music Scene
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I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.
Boris Becker
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Tennis Player
Sports
Big Picture
Papers
Reading
Tennis
Thinking
Picture
Bubble
Coach
Manager
Notice
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To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.
Eli Pariser
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Activist
Good
Able
Big Picture
Difficult
Good Citizen
Identity
Important
People
Rooted
Shoes
Everything
Yourself
Impossible Yourself Your
Picture
Big
Own
Becomes
You
Citizen
Put
Other
See
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The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you try to find that. I'm doing in the cinema what historians try to do in their own media.
Oliver Stone
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Film Director
Ability
Big Picture
Trying
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'Orientalism' has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point of view and always see things from different perspective.
Okky Madasari
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Big Picture
Critical
Different Perspective
Perspective
Point Of View
Western
Successfully
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A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don't see a big picture for our lives. We don't love ourselves. We don't have a way of kind of gauging the future, so we count it lost.
Jennifer Holliday
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Big Picture
Our Lives
Picture
Base
Circumstance
Count
Immediate
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My husband is that rare man who is blessed with the ability to see the big picture but will not ignore the smallest detail. He will work an 18-hour day and still find time to help the kids with their homework.
Nita Ambani
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Businesswoman
Big Picture
Blessed
Homework
Smallest
Time Work Man
Rare
Detail
Work Time Man
Ignore
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Where I'm at in life, the women have got to come with something else, not just the body, but the mind and spirit. It usually trips them out, but that's the way it's going to be. I'm looking at the big picture.
Lenny Kravitz
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Singer-Songwriter
Big Picture
Body
Mind
Way
Something Else
Trips
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Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
Peter Hammill
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Singer
Art
Big Picture
Examination
Grain
Lying
Mundane
Sand
Seeing
Strokes
Thinking
Picture
Apparently
Broad
Directions
Grain Of Sand
Hand
Lies
Minute
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I played with Eddy Curry twice and in New York, the second time, he asked, 'Who are you?' My first to fourth year I was a different person. I started thinking big picture, that maybe I don't have all the answers.
Jamal Crawford
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Big Picture
Curry
Fourth
Time Thinking New
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Big picture, it's amazing to create characters and see them brought to life in the art. And to love that art. But I especially enjoy writing a character with heightened powers that aren't especially useful to him.
Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Author
Big Picture
Life Love Art
Powers
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In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it's nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar.
Lionel Shriver
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Journalist
Accomplishment
Big Picture
Careers
Raises
Bar
Merely
Nursed
Success Is
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After formulating and communicating the right strategy and optimizing operations to execute that strategy, CEOs and other top leaders then must be able to build management teams that truly understand the big picture.
Mark V. Hurd
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Executive
Big Picture
Management
Operations
Strategy
Build
Picture
Ceos
Execute
Teams
Truly
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When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', their career skyrocketed. As a photographer, you were very empowered; people came to you, bowing to you and what you represented.
Douglas Kirkland
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Big Picture
Empowered
Photographer
Life Look People
Bowing
Cover
Magazine
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I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director.
Joan Severance
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Actress
Big Picture
Directors
Mind
Studios
Thinking
Unknown
Picture
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
Victoria Osteen
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Pastor
Big Picture
Insignificant
Ordinary
Life God Your
Life God Look
Presents
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It's the whole big picture that we have to look at to create an organization that wins over the long term. And to just shoot from the hip on a decision based on winning over a 10-game period. No, that doesn't make sense.
Henry Samueli
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Big Picture
Term
Hip
Wins
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A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.
Bret Michaels
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Singer
Big Picture
Brain
Deeper
Guy
Lightning
Perspective
Picture
Puts
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What we realize is number one, people want to know what the Bible says. In their heart, they want to know the Bible but it is just hard to understand the big picture of it. And number two, they want to know where they plug in.
Max Lucado
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Author
Bible
Big Picture
Heart
Numbers
Two
Plug
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I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.
Sean Combs
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Birthday
Big Picture
Bras
Flash
Give Me
Underwear
Picture
Cakes
Collage
Photo
Onstage
Send
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In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.
Kevin J. Anderson
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Author
Running
Big Picture
Book
Smart
Picture
Godfather
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I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind.
Kate Baldwin
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Actress
Andrew
August
Big Picture
Proven
Picture
John
Susan
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The September 11th, 2012, attacks on the State Department compound in Benghazi, Libya, is important and should be studied because in the big picture, it represents a failed foreign policy that spans across both Bush and Obama Presidencies.
Brandon Webb
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Benghazi
Big Picture
Department
Foreign Policy
Libya
September
September 11th
Attacks
Compound
Failed
Spans
State Department
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I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.
Steve Vai
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Guitarist
Approach
Artist
Big Picture
Imagine
Song
Thinking
Picture
Artists
Camera
Click
Fast
Snapshot
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Instead of serving special interests, Congress should focus on the big picture. Globalization and technology have completely reshaped our economy in recent decades, and if we don't respond, we're putting the future of the middle class at risk.
John Delaney
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Future
Technology
Big Picture
Class
Congress
Decades
Economy
Focus
Globalization
Middle
Middle Class
Risk
Serving
Special
Special Interests
Picture
Respond
Instead
Interests
Putting
Recent
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Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.
John Grisham
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Lawyer
Famous
Big Picture
Book
Cards
Country
Credit
Credit Card
Standing
Great Myself Me
Picture
Quite
Author
Beneath
Card
Clearly
John
John Grisham
Marked
Paying
Reads
Recognises
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The name Downhere comes from a song I wrote after a friend of mine died in college, and it was kind of the first time I was dealing with loss and, you know, real mortality, and it was a song of how down here on Earth, we don't have the big picture.
Marc Martel
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Musician
Big Picture
Loss
Mortality
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For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was seeing things from a big picture, from beginning to middle to end: making a costume, doing voices, writing a script, making it all happen.
Noel Wells
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Actress
Big Picture
Parody
Commercial
Costume
Beginning Picture End
Voices
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The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.
Mick Ebeling
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Film Producer
Believe
Big Picture
Individual
Perspective
Reality
Picture
Small
Immovable
Incomprehensible
Seemingly
Shifts
Suddenly
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I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.
Ellen Degeneres
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Comedian
Big Picture
Compassion
Ego
Purpose
Stuck
Picture
Love Work Believe
Connect
Getting
Planet
Unfolds
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When I started making films, all the theaters, the screen would slide open the widest possible point, and that would be widescreen. But now, theaters are geared up for around 16:9, so scope is now 'letterboxed.' In a way, if you want the big picture, you shoot 16:9.
David Mackenzie
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Film Director
Big Picture
Scope
Picture
Open
Films
Geared
Screen
Slide
Theaters
Widest
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When scientists are asked what they are working on, their response is seldom 'Finding the origin of the universe' or 'Seeking to cure cancer.' Usually, they will claim to be tackling a very specific problem - a small piece of the jigsaw that builds up the big picture.
Martin Rees
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Astronomer
Big Picture
Cancer
Jigsaw
Problem
Response
Seeking
Tackling
Universe
Picture
Asked
Builds
Claim
Cure
Working
Finding
Small
Origin
Piece
Scientists
Small Piece
Specific
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While it's important to be open-minded, we don't have to be naive. Although Iran claims they are developing nuclear capability only for peaceful purposes, it's most difficult to believe them when taking a step back to assess the big picture of Iran's threats and actions.
Lee Zeldin
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United States Congressman
Big Picture
Capability
Claims
Developing
Iran
Naive
Open Minded
Peaceful
Assess
Purposes
Threats
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My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.
Padmasree Warrior
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Smile
Humor
Mom
Approach
Big Picture
Father
Husband
Independent
Influence
Light Hearted
Long Term
Pivotal
Sense Of Humor
Smile Life Love
Life Love Mom
Picture
Anchor
Life Smile Love
Encourages
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We tend to talk about the world in a myriad of ways - a microscopic world of elementary particles, a biological world of organisms and evolution, a social world of morality and meaning. But it's all the same underlying world. That's the underlying theme of 'The Big Picture.'
Sean M. Carroll
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Scientist
Big Picture
Evolution
Morality
Organisms
Particles
Theme
Picture
Biological
Elementary
Microscopic
Myriad
Tend
Underlying
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