Quotes About Emphasis

major emphasis in the NT is that the Spirit is now freely given by "God" and so is powerfully and regularly operative in the lives of believers individually and collectively. There is a rich variety of verbs used to describe the divine

Whether in the Gospels or other NT writings, the overarching emphasis is on "God's" purposes, all events, claims, and characters (including Jesus) receiving their evaluation and meaning in light of these divine purposes.

Not to put too fine a point upon it.

The emphasis was helped by the speaker's hair, which bristled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside.

It's not Madness, ma'am,' replied Mr. Bumble, after a few moments of deep meditation. 'It's Meat.' 'What?' exclaimed Mrs. Sowerberry. 'Meat, ma'am, meat,' replied Bumble, with stern emphasis. 'You've over-fed him, ma'am.

noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut . But if the above whipped your mind into a frenzy, here's something even more interesting: Fang started a blog. Not that he's self-absorbed or trendy or anything. Nope, not him.

You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

In Brazil, there isn't just one beauty ideal. There's a lot of emphasis on a woman's natural beauty - but of course, Brazilian women love expressing their beauty through makeup.

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

The idea of having proper qualifications had been very much ingrained in me. My father had a steady job for the Potato Marketing Board, and the family emphasis was on getting to university.

If I could sum up the problems at the outset, Wright tends to introduce false dichotomies, presenting an either – or when there is a both – and instead. To put it more sharply, even when he sees a both – and, he at times puts the emphasis in the wrong place, seeing the secondary as primary and the primary as secondary.

Lord Buddha never put much emphasis on belief. Instead, he exhorted us to investigate and try to understand the reality of our own being. He never stressed that we had to know what he was, what a buddha is. All he wanted was for us to understand our own nature. Isn't that so simple? We don't have to believe in anything. Simply by making the right effort, we understand things through our own experience, and gradually develop all realizations.

All syncopation means is accenting beats that you don't normally accent.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

Obviously, I like the drums to be heard. I think they're important.

It doesn't matter whether a sequence of words is called a history or a story: that is, whether it is intended to follow a sequence of actual events or not. As far as its verbal shape is concerned, it will be equally mythical in either case. But we notice that any emphasis on shape or structure or pattern or form always throws a verbal narrative in the direction we call mythical rather than historical.(p.21)

Likewise, what emphasis should be put on great individuals versus on cultural currents has long been a matter of dispute;

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do," he said. "That's true for companies, and it's true for products.

Por mucho énfasis que debamos poner en el liderazgo, la organización y el trabajo en equipo, el individuo sigue siendo determinante, de una importancia suprema. Las ideas y los conceptos creativos nacen en la mente de una sola persona.