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Quotes About Emphasis

The point was to retrieve the clients alive and fuck everything else.
~ Martha Wells
Strange synthetics are usually harmless, emphasis on the "usually." But organic elements can be really dangerous, where "really" means everyone dies horribly and nobody can ever go to the planet again.
~ Martha Wells
In society, the emphasis is more on creating a family, but not on will you be a good family man.
~ Unknown
Almost all the great American graphic designers have used white space as the significant silence to better hear their message loud and clear.
~ Massimo Vignelli
Molly almost goes out of her way to describe how loving and supportive her parents have always been, emphasizing in particular the fact that, while she was growing up, her mom couldn't have cared less whether Molly ran or didn't run, and if she ran, whether she ran well or poorly, as long as she was happy.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
The public largely misunderstands the "fake news" issue. Newspapers rarely fib outright. Most "lies" are errors of omission or emphasis. There are no Fox stories saying blue states have lower divorce rates, nor are there MSNBC stories exploring the fact that many pro-choice Democrats, particularly religious ones, struggle with a schism between their moral and political beliefs on abortion.
~ Matt Taibbi
The effect of the Reformation as such was only that, as compared with the Catholic attitude, the moral emphasis on and the religious sanction of, organized worldly labor in a calling was mightily increased.
~ Max Weber
Man often overstates the trivial things and understates the vital ones!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
And those of us with a strong burden for the purity of the Body must remember something essential: Jesus, not sin, must be our emphasis! Preachers who major on sin and minor on Jesus are like a bridegroom who takes his eyes off his precious bride as she walks down the aisle and focuses instead on a fly on her gown. We need to stay centered on our Savior and Lord!
~ Michael L. Brown
The trouble has generally been . . . that people have emphasized either experience or doctrine at the expense of the other. . . . This is something that has been happening in the church from almost the very beginning. . . . When the whole emphasis is placed upon one or the other, you either have a tendency to fanaticism and excess or a tendency toward a barren intellectualism and a mechanical and a dead kind of orthodoxy.
~ Michael L. Brown
The leader's checklist for General Electric, for instance, according to those highly familiar with the company, includes teaching others how to lead their divisions, making tough—often wrenching—personnel decisions around performance, and continually innovating. A checklist for Google, by contrast, would place greater emphasis on the individual pursuit of creative sparks, keeping teams small, and guiding others in an even-keeled manner.
~ Unknown
It's all exaggerated. My exaggerations are exaggerated.
~ Michael Wolff
Aquest ponent exhibeix una impúdica proclivitat a l'èmfasi, com si no estigués condemnat, com tots, a caure en un oblit indestriable i trist.
~ Unknown
I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.
~ Unknown
The supreme contribution of the Greeks was to call attention to, employ, and emphasize the power of human reason. This recognition of the power of reasoning is the greatest single discovery made by man.
~ Morris Kline
Most of the people are placing too much emphasis of their happiness on price, rather than on value.
~ Unknown
There, again and again, we find the New Testament writers emphasizing instead love, agap?, as the highest activity, the one that binds everything else together-
~ Unknown
Josef Albers devoted his life to extolling the merits of "minimal means for maximum effect.
~ Nicholas Fox Weber
Master Hakuin emphasizes kufu in movement or practical training in Zen. He says, "To practice Zen in movement is superior to doing so in the stillness of meditation.
~ Unknown
Treating rights as fundamental gives prominence to the perspective of victims, and lends itself all too readily to an emphasis on the form of rectificatory justice of most concern to victims, namely compensation.
~ Unknown
And now we understand why our Lord so emphasized the sin of worrying. How can we dare to be so absolutely unbelieving when God totally surrounds us? To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.
~ Oswald Chambers
The statement we so often hear, "Make a decision for Jesus Christ," places the emphasis on something our Lord never trusted. He never asks us to decide for Him, but to yield to Him—something very different.
~ Oswald Chambers
second model, that of a technical or trade school, would conceive the primary task of psychoanalytic education to be the learning of a clearly defined skill or trade, with no emphasis on artistic creativity. Teachers
~ Unknown
I am telling you three times.
~ Patrick Rothfuss