Quotes About Emphasis

Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my sister is equally driven. She is a paediatric endocrinologist.

A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss.

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

Emphasizing the body as art, these artists amplified the role of process over product and shifted from representation objects to presentational modes of action.

Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery.

Religion, unlike faith, emphasized strict adherence to texts, and failure to abide by them was perceived as a moral failure.

Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.

What is a Sufi?" Sufis are Muslims who emphasize essence over form and substance over appearance in their spiritual practices

The count says we're Austrians now. But the countess tells me on the sly: 'You're Polish and always will be.' I asked her if she was Polish too, and she said: 'Forever.' " Tytus led his son to a window, and as if to lend emphasis to what he was about to say, pointed toward the river: "As long as the Vistula flows, it waters the soul of Poland.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

Jewelry maybe is more expensive than clothes, but clothes are more important than jewelry.

As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread.

We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.

In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I've had is winning, and that's ridiculous.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

If', it's a little word, but casts an awfully big shadow.

Winston Churchill said, "If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then a third time—a tremendous whack.

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

I simply know that if something is important to the church, it really cannot be over-communicated.

Essentially these books consist of asking the reader to forget about the forest of Churchill's life and instead focus on a few trees that a given writer believes deserve more attention

Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence.

People put too much emphasis, too many demands, on courage, and they all put their own standards on it anyway

Indeed, in Revelation there is also a particularly notable emphasis that proper worship of and allegiance to "God" includes Jesus ("the Lamb") as well, the divinely

The biblical texts typically taken as reflecting the idea of divine immutability (e.g., Num 23:19; Ps 46:1-3; 102:25-28; Jas 1:17; Heb 13:8) all seem to emphasize what we may call a moral immutability, i.e., divine trustworthiness