quotes about Emphasis
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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
-- Amiri Baraka -
I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.
-- Benny Hinn -
But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.
-- Bill Bruford -
The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
-- Chogyam Trungpa -
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In addition to showing gratitude to others, place emphasis on showing gratitude to yourself
-- Doreen VirtueSource : Twitter post from Jun 20, 2016
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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 MerckxSource : "Interview: Giovanni Ribisi on 'Middle Men'". Interview with Amanda Mae Meyncke, www.mtv.com. August 6, 2010.
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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
-- Felix Frankfurter -
The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes.
-- Haridas Chaudhuri -
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I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.
-- Harry Hay -
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 CalisherSource : Hortense Calisher (2013). “In the Absence of Angels: Stories”, p.88, Open Road Media
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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
-- Huston Smith -
Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.
-- James Fallows -
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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 -
What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!
-- Janice Dickinson -
Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.
-- Jennifer LynchSource : "Director Jennifer Lynch Interview SURVEILLANCE". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 22, 2009.
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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 -
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The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.
-- Margaret Mitchell -
People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.
-- Mary MacLaneSource : Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.83, Petrarca Press
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I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis.
-- Neil LaBute -
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 -
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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 -
There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.
-- Temple Grandin -
I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
-- Tony Blair -
...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.
-- Tracy KidderSource : Tracy Kidder (2003). “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”, p.278, Random House
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The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.
-- Tullian Tchividjian -
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
-- William Rounseville Alger -
One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity.
-- Yoweri Museveni -
It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.
-- Rosanna Arquette -
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(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.
-- Thomas J. Sergiovanni