1.
There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.
Temple Grandin
2.
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.
Eddy Merckx
3.
The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
Chogyam Trungpa
4.
One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity.
Yoweri Museveni
5.
I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.
Benny Hinn
6.
In addition to showing gratitude to others, place emphasis on showing gratitude to yourself
Doreen Virtue
7.
America had an emphasis on the individual and so education became available for everyone.
John Glenn
8.
Emphasis should be laid on the evolution of humanity.
Alice Bailey
9.
(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.
Thomas J. Sergiovanni
10.
The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.
Margaret Mitchell
11.
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.
Hortense Calisher
12.
I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.
Harry Hay
13.
I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
Pam Grier
14.
I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
Tony Blair
15.
Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
Brad Pitt
16.
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.
Neil LaBute
18.
The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.
Tullian Tchividjian
19.
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
Vladimir Nabokov
21.
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.
Jane Haddam
22.
Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
Amiri Baraka
23.
What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!
Janice Dickinson
24.
But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.
Bill Bruford
25.
In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
Huston Smith
27.
Bonhoeffer's emphasis on the deep this-worldliness of Christianity does not lead to de-escahtologizing the gospel.
G. C. Berkouwer
28.
The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"
Tullian Tchividjian
29.
In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.
Sathya Sai Baba
30.
Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.
James Fallows
31.
I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.
Cornel West
32.
Yes, too much emphasis is put on outward physical attributes in every area of American life.
Gloria Gaynor
33.
It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter.
Leonard Cohen
34.
...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.
Tracy Kidder
35.
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.
Richard Dawkins
36.
Chris [Farley] - I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on "animal."
Rob Lowe
37.
Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.
Jennifer Lynch
38.
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.
John Kenneth Galbraith
39.
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.
John Walford
41.
People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.
Mary MacLane
42.
We put the wrong emphasis on what beauty is and what health is. Health is being vibrant and having energy and being happy.
Ellen DeGeneres
43.
The Bible's emphasis is on the good treatment of animals, and not just the forbidding of cruel treatment.
Billy Graham
44.
There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut.
James Patterson
45.
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.
L. Ron Hubbard
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90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.
Mark Shields