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Quotes About Emphasis

In my country where I was born, Guyana, we push more for education. It's more being a lawyer, doctor, teacher, or scientist.
~ Letitia Wright
A lot of the emphasis on international bowlers is on their pace and Australia coach Darren Lehmann is a big fan of bowlers who can bowl 90mph-plus.
~ Glenn McGrath
In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.
~ Marlene Dietrich
When you're undead, the emphasis is on the second syllable.
~ Peter Watts
more in Northern Ireland. The church places particular emphasis on religious education as well as devotion, though
~ Philip Norton
But a democratic government cannot afford to be as crude as that. It never goes in for summary repression or direct control; it nullifies rather than conceals undesirable news; it controls emphasis rather than facts; it balances bad news with good; it lies directly only when it is certain that the lie will not be found out during the course of the war. This was the method
~ Phillip Knightley
I view myself as a musician and I focus on music - other people may try to focus on the music, but the emphasis is heavily on visuals and performance. They're both equally valid, but different.
~ Eric Nam
It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.
~ Joey Santiago
I don't like bananas. I like to drive that point home.
~ Ree Drummond
Omettere sempre una parola, ricorrere a metafore inette e a perifrasi evidenti, é forse il modo piú enfatico di indicarla.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.
~ Abraham Kuyper
To say a word once is communicative, to say it twice is emphatic, but to say it twenty times turns it into a trippy floating nothing.
~ Adam Roberts
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.
~ Ruggiero Ricci
The emphasis on winning is preventing kids from learning how to pass, which is the skill they ultimately need at the highest levels. The proposed solution is for top youth players to play fewer games.
~ PO BRONSON
It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.
~ Robert Duvall
You have a laugh line; don't accentuate it. You get a bigger laugh.
~ Dick Van Patten
If you have a bold brow, it's best to forgo a super-smoky eye and make the lips dramatic instead.
~ Anastasia Soare
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
~ Jonathan Raban
I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it's all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things.
~ Natalie Zea
What your heart thinks great is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Q. What is the difference between coaching and mentoring? A. Coaching generally has to do with success in the current position, with some emphasis—say, 10 to 15 percent—on the next position. Mentoring is the reverse. Most of the emphasis is on the future, probably 80 to 85 percent; only 15 to 20 percent is focused on current performance.
~ Ram Charan
from the extensive emphasis on ceremony to a focus on teaching.
~ Ravi Zacharias
emphasizing the wrong items, emphasizing the machines rather than how to run the machines.
~ Ray Bradbury