The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
Interpretation
To gain a true understanding, one must step back and view situations from a broader perspective.
This quote suggests that often, those who are too close to a situation miss the larger context or the entirety of what is happening. By metaphorically stepping out of the frame, individuals can gain clearer insights and a more comprehensive understanding of their circumstances, enabling better decision-making and greater awareness.
In practice
In a presentation about strategic planning, you might use this quote to emphasize the importance of a broad viewpoint.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.
It seems like suffering's the only time we can see what's essential. If peace ever comes back I'm making a vow: I'll design myself special glasses. They'll block out whether people are fat or thin or beautiful or weird-looking, whether they have pimples or birthmarks or different coloured skin. They'll do everything suffering's done for us, but without the pain. I'm going to wear those glasses for the rest of my life.
Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.
There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.
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