A Quote by Nicholas Sparks

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Nicholas Sparks

Quote Topics

Forest See Trees

Quote Author

Nicholas Sparks
American - Novelist
Born: December 31, 1965

Its not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.

Bashar al-Assad

Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers.

Roberto Bolano

If you start thinking of the Super Bowl championship as your motivation, you are going to miss the trees for the forest or the forest for the trees. I never could understand that one.

Marv Levy

I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.

Sloane Crosley

The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind.

Marilyn Ferguson

I think it happens to a lot of people who make music just on a computer by themselves, you don't see the bigger picture. You don't see the forest for the trees. You're looking at every tree so closely, and every tree looks so cool. But you're making a forest, man, you're not making a tree.

Eef Barzelay

A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.

David Douglas

Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.

Bernard Baruch

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?

Steven Wright

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

Marcel Proust

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.

Jeff Koons

Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!

Billy Connolly

If you've ever walked a mile into a virgin forest - you know, like a deep forest where trees have been uncut - the energy is totally different from the shopping mall.