Quotes About Emphasis

If you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you don't raise your voice but lower it: this is what really commands attention.

The emphasis is on the lost, the abandoned, the discarded sinners, God's detritus.

I'd read somewhere that if you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you don't raise your voice but lower it: this is what really commands attention.

I'd read somewhere that if you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you don't raise your voice but lower it: this is what really commands attention.

The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.

Man often overstates the trivial things and understates the vital ones!

A boil on a man's neck is more important to him than 40 floods in India

I don't know that we teach it. I don't know that we emphasize it... I understand the philosophical background behind it, but I don't know a lot about it, and I don't think others know a lot about it.

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.

The nature of search engines is that they can make a major issue out of something small that no person would otherwise be able to find.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.

The emphasis in tantra is not what you find yourself doing, it's on meditation.

It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid.

To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.

I think people should put more emphasis on love, family, and caring for other people. We focus so much on the negative and bad in life, we need to focus more on the positive and happy things.

was just that she felt you were missing the main point—you were focused on one thing when you should have been focused on another.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography...The reason is that photography is only a tool, a vehicle, for expressing or transmitting a passion in something else. It is not the end result.

For example, in the chiasmus used by Isaiah here in the first eight verses, the main message is found in verse 5, where he emphasizes that when a society collapses because of wickedness, everyone is persecuted and oppressed by everyone else.

Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important" -John Carmack