Quotes About Emphasis

Black understood something that so many in our country still do not: that low prices, brought on by deflation in the days of the Great Depression or by the globalization of the twenty-first century, cannot substitute for an economy that puts its emphasis on job creation and good wages.

If she has six good points and you have one semigood little point, place all of the emphasis on your one semigood little point.

On the one hand, the Buddha put a lot of emphasis on pursuing "The Noble Quest." Which is the right point of view: Pursuing The Noble Quest or Calling Off the Search? Both, not neither!

I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God.

What are we fighting against in our culture? Look at what's emphasized. Sports. Entertainment. Lifestyles of the rich and famous. The very same things that other great nations in history became enamored with—before their falls. Greece. Rome. Egypt. Go back and read their histories—they did exactly the same things.

Then, as they began to decline, they all experienced some peculiar similarities: an inordinate emphasis on sports and entertainment, a fixation with lifestyles of the rich and famous, political corruption, and the loss of a moral compass.

One has the sense of her deciding roughly at Page 2 whether or not a book is worthy; reading the rest of it to gather evidence for her case; spending some quality time with the Thesaurus; and then taking a large blunt hammer and pounding the message home.

The typical unhappy man is one who, having been deprived in youth of some normal satisfaction, has come to value this one kind of satisfaction more than any other, and has therefore given to his life a one-sided direction, together with a quite undue emphasis upon the achievement as opposed to the activities connected with it.

Furthermore, it is significant that the marked characteristics of this race are being here emphasized most.

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

DAKS is a much more restrained silhouette, and there's a real emphasis on daywear, outerwear, and tailoring. It's more stripped-down.

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.

What the overemphasis on the idea of content entails is the perennial, never consummated project of interpretation. And, conversely, it is the habit of approaching works of art in order to interpret them that sustains the fancy that there really is such a thing as the content of a work of art.

Any nation that does not emphasize integrity will always fail.

There is no question that the style is more important than the subject matter.

Today] there is less emphasis on redemption by the blood of Christ.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

Largely because of its emphasis on gore, the Illustrated Police News had the highest circulation of any publication in Victorian England.

On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton emphasized her experience. Yes, experience matters, but judgment matters more. Despite her experience, Hillary Clinton's poor decisions have produced bad results. Just think about it.

We would venture to say that the opposite of fear is not a lack of fear but trust. Somewhere deep down all of us know we're powerless to change things or truly protect children the way we long to. But we don't want to parent out of fear. When we do, the emphasis is more on preventing than on encouraging. It becomes more about control than it does relationship. It centers on what is wrong in the world rather than who you and your child can be in the midst of it.

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.

It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place or in the second place.