Emphasis Quotes

There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.

There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over...The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity.

I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.

In addition to showing gratitude to others, place emphasis on showing gratitude to yourself

America had an emphasis on the individual and so education became available for everyone.

Emphasis should be laid on the evolution of humanity.

(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.

The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis. One example would be the letter writing, or the reading of the letters. If you remember from the book, they find the letters and then in the most undramatic way they take them downstairs, they get approval, they sit at a table during the day with their own author, across from each other.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.

You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters interesting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"

In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.

Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.

Yes, too much emphasis is put on outward physical attributes in every area of American life.

It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter.

...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.

Bonhoeffer's emphasis on the deep this-worldliness of Christianity does not lead to de-escahtologizing the gospel.

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

Chris [Farley] - I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on "animal."

I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.

In law also the emphasis makes the song.

People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

We put the wrong emphasis on what beauty is and what health is. Health is being vibrant and having energy and being happy.

The Bible's emphasis is on the good treatment of animals, and not just the forbidding of cruel treatment.

There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut.

The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.

90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.

Begbie offers an additional valuable contribution by rejecting the traditional emphasis on beauty, in its Platonic sense, and instead suggesting that beauty be reconceived in Christological terms-as disorder redeemed.