Emphasis Quotes - Page 3

• In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

  Alan Dundes

  Light, Trying, Culture

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• False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Exaggeration Is, White Collar, Eloquent

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• We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the average person means earning a lot of money and having a home, two cars, children in college. Success to me is entirely different to what success is to the average person.  Success is being a successful human being in terms of pursuing what you believe in. If you believe in making paintings, writing poetry, writing music. If this is what you really want, you're successful to yourself. But to be successful to your culture means to sell yourself short of what you really want

  Jacque Fresco

  Success, Music, Running

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• I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Education, Teacher, Hate

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

  Huston Smith

  Reality, Ought

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• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Jobs, Children, College

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• (In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.

  Thomas J. Sergiovanni

  School, Doing The Right Thing, Right Thing

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• The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Women, Abortion, Privacy

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• The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

  Enid Bagnold

  Art, Names, Theatre

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• I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.

  Benny Hinn

  Too Much, Prosperity, Terrible

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• I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Character, Comedy, Heavy

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• The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Jobs, Business Success, Quality

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• I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.

  Mitch Albom

  Believe, Mean, Average

  CNN Interactive's Tuesday Book Chat, www.cnn.com. 2001.

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• 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, Grew Up, Grew

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

  Harry Hay

  Gay, Consumerism, Presses

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• I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.

  Anton Seidl

  Mean, Simple, Horny

  Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.102, Parrot Press

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• Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

  Janet Suzman

  Thinking, Self, Hands

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• 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.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Drug, Firsts, Benefits

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• To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Apostolic Church, Self

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• The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on "official" institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny.

  Bob Schaffer

  Destiny, Reality, Ukraine

  "Go Orange!". National Review Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

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• People put too much emphasis on looks.

  Shawn Johnson

  People, Looks, Too Much

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• If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Honesty, Men

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• 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.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Character, Science, Upset

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• I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

  Rick Warren

  Compassion, Government, Justice

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• Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world is an aggressive, hyperactive, competitive, masculine world, and it needs the woman's touch as never before.

  Eva Burrows

  Needs, World, Today

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