Quotes About Emphasis

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.

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

The fundamentals of your business are like free throws: emphasize and practice them to perfection.

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

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

Trochee trips from long to short;From long to long in solemn sortSlow Spondee stalks.

Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.

He chose you because a plain setting makes the diamond sparkle brighter.

An important aspect of writing unmentioned by Burton was 'priority'; what to tell first. That always seemed one of the basic problems.

My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achievement was a placing of emphasis-- a moulding of the confusion of life into form.

Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least

A strong sense of citizenship--a new concept in a new nation--was essential to securing the Union. And when he used the word American in this section of the manuscript, he underlined the term twice for emphasis.

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The emphasis on birth is no more than the craving for the insoluble carried to the point of insanity.

To make a single nation illustrate a principle, you must exaggerate much and you must omit much.

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

I thought I'd miss cursing, but I actually don't. I still feel like I can get my point across without real harsh language.

At Harvard, you don't major. You concentrate.

Philosophically, Communism and Anarchism are poles apart. Practically—i.e. in the form of society aimed at—the difference is mainly one of emphasis, but it is quite irreconcilable. The Communist's emphasis is always on centralism and efficiency, the Anarchist's on liberty and equality.

The modern emphasis on what is called 'clean fun' is really the symptom of a general unwillingness to touch upon any serious or controversial subject.

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

This has to be emphasized, because today too many of us emphasize kingdom but ignore the Holy Spirit and Pentecost and church—as if kingdom meant nothing more than justice and peace and love in the world (or in their country or in their state or in their local village).

Given such an emphasis on the written Scriptures in the prophetic tradition, understanding the prophets as authors of books, rather than merely proclaimers of divine judgment and salvation in particular social settings, should be the central focus of the question of preaching from the prophets.