Emphasis Quotes

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

Technological measures are important, but equally important is... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility.

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.

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

As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.

Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving person.

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.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I've had is winning, and that's ridiculous.

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

Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.

I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like.

I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love end it with changed emphasis.

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.

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

The media is putting a lot of emphasis on the few people that are destroying, while it won't report on the silent majority of people who are constructing, building and trying to find their way.

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

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

Remember the emphasis on the heart. the mind lives in doubt and the heart lives in trust. When you trust, suddenly you become centered.

The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.

The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.

25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.

There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

Every other consideration and plan and emphasis is secondary to that of wielding the forces of prayer.

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

And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.

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

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

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

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

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

All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.

Hefty? I'd railed to Peter, waving the clipping for emphasis. Hefty? For the record 'Hefty' is a trash bag. I'm festively plump.

Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.

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