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.
To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.
But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.
I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all. I count on those people who enjoy my work to understand this.
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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