Top 753 Emphasis Quotes & Sayings

The emphasis in tantra is not what you find yourself doing, it's on meditation.

In law also the emphasis makes the song.

We need to start training more primary health providers and fewer specialists. We will never be able to control health care costs unless we challenge the over-emphasis on medical research, specialists and technology and put more emphasis on delivering good, everyday basic medicine to those who now have none.

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

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

I like the idea of all of us looking at the world with less of an emphasis on national borders and with more of an emphasis on shared humanity.

Often, there's an emphasis in my work, and it's sort of the celebrating of the body.

I don't like to wonder about it-I just like to do it. That's what I mean about the image stuff and all that. There's far too much emphasis being placed on that kind of stuff... the whole emphasis on what does it mean? Everybody has their own particular vision.

There's such an emphasis on making money that we've really taken the humanity out of business.

I've certainly benefited from the three-point line and the emphasis on shooting them.

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

Understanding child development takes the emphasis away from the child's character--looking at the child as good or bad. The emphasis is put on behavior as communication. Discipline is thus seen as problem-solving. The child is helped to learn a more acceptable manner of communication.

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

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

I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

There is a big emphasis at Liverpool to have an academy that brings through young players.

More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.

I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

The Christian, the Mohammedan, the Jew - their emphasis is on the second: to die as soon as possible, to surrender to God. Prayer is their way. Prayer means dying, dying and disappearing as a person, becoming part of the universal, a surrender, a trust in God. The whole emphasis is on how to surrender your ego, sacrifice your ego, at the altar of the divine.

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

In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.

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

It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.

There are still actors who use emotional memory, affective memory, which was Lee Strasberg's emphasis, not his total emphasis. She taught everything at the Actor's Studio. But nevertheless, she felt that it impeded her.

Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve their standards and maintain their vigor. I have been forced to the conclusion that an over-emphasis of science weakens character and upsets life's essential balance.

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

Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

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

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

The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes.

I put more emphasis on filmmakers than maybe Hollywood does.

I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis.

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

One of the core pillars of the modern American conservative movement is its emphasis on personal responsibility.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

The emphasis in thoroughbreds is managing the horses as much as it is training them.

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

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

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.

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

I believe there need to be women visual in our every day landscape, working hard and doing their own thing, whether you like it or not, whether it's acceptable or not...I especially hope to inspire young women because often I feel like so much emphasis is put on how beautiful you are, and how thin you are, and not a lot of emphasis is put on what you can do and how smart you are. I'd like to change that, change the emphasis of what's important when looking at a woman.

I turned six in 1977. Youth athletics then was nothing like this, and I wondered how things changed so much. I started looking at our societal emphasis on sports, using the most tangible metric by which we measure emphasis: money.

Modern society places an emphasis on individual responsibility, whereas Islam places an emphasis on collective responsibility and the family.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk.

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of American culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how a movie does as far as the box office goes. Many years ago, it would have been vulgar to print box - office grosses in the paper. Now The New York Times does it, and it's the big story for people interested in arts and entertainment on Monday. Which is why emphasis has shifted away from filmmakers and fallen on movie stars and business people.

Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts.

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

People put too much emphasis on looks.

Emphasis should be laid on the evolution of humanity.

Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.

Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.

That's his definition of mercy. This is the year of the Mercy Jubilee of the pope. I know that he's against abortion, but he talks about Christ's emphasis on mercy instead of his emphasis on judgment. He talks about the lack of Christian charity and the pride that are afloat in our world these days in terms of making moral judgments on other people. That's really it for Willie. He's really a missionary.

I wasn't putting too much emphasis on it (the booing). I think that you have to put it behind you.

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

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