Emphasis quotes

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

#Musical #Emphasis #Poetry Is

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

#Too Much #Prosperity #Emphasis

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

#Thinking #Facts #Emphasis

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

#Practice #Emphasis #Situation

In addition to showing gratitude to others, place emphasis on showing gratitude to yourself
-- Doreen Virtue

#Gratitude #Emphasis #Showing Gratitude

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

#Hands #Important #Emphasis

In law also the emphasis makes the song.
-- Felix Frankfurter

#Song #Law #Emphasis

The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes.
-- Haridas Chaudhuri

#Perfection #Awareness #Emphasis

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

#Gay #Emphasis #Consumerism

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

#Memories #Wreaths #Emphasis

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

#Reality #Emphasis

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

#Jobs #Emphasis #Bureaucracy

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

#Character #Way #Emphasis

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

#Motto #Emphasis #My Motto

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

#Trying #Emphasis #Speakers

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

#Beauty #Disorder #Emphasis

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

#Race #Emphasis

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

#People #Peculiar #Emphasis

I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis.
-- Neil LaBute

#Dramatic #Emphasis

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

#Appearance #Emphasis #Grew

If she has six good points and you have one semigood little point, place all of the emphasis on your one semigood little point.
-- Sherry Argov

#Six #Littles #Emphasis

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

#Children #Needs #Emphasis

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

#Believe #Emphasis #Enterprise

...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

#Goal #Imitation #Emphasis

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

#Emphasis

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
-- William Rounseville Alger

#Emphasis #Exaggeration #Eloquence

One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#Order #Emphasis #Democratic

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

#Sexuality #Emphasis #Fairs

(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.
-- Thomas J. Sergiovanni

#School #Emphasis #Doing The Right Thing