Quotes About Emphasize

But much of our current emphasis on independence is a reaction to dependence—to having others control us, define us, use us, and manipulate us.

The fact that life arose early here gives us little confidence in the belief that life must be common elsewhere. It's important to emphasize the following point: the analysis doesn't show that life is rare. "Life is common" remains our best guess position; it's just that we can't be confident of the position.

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

We need to organise unapologetically anti-racist campaigns in our communities, ones that emphasise the fact that the blame for social ills lies with the powerful.

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.

Can people tell from the emphasis we attach to material things whether we have set our affection on things above, or whether we are primarily attached to this world?

The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design.

It is essential that we always repeat: we the people, we the people, we the people.

And finally, as if to emphasize their emergence from academia into the world, they dressed and spoke with what one senior mathematician called "a deplorable excess of personality.

By changing the context in which two things are compared, you submerge certain features and force others to the surface.

MISOGYNISTIC PRICK," Nikki muttered as she descended Nilsen's front steps. "That's redundant," Seley pointed out. "For emphasis," Nikki said

You're a smart person. You're going to figure out where you can be more effective and more efficient with your own resources, and that's going to put more of an investment and emphasis on your future.

Small issues are really just large ones that haven't been accorded the requisite attention.

The best way to get somebody's attention is with a little quiet, and then yell at 'em.

I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.

I face the camera every day as a student as there is a lot to learn. You become an actor when you put emphasis on smaller details.

Adjectives do for nouns what adverbs do for verbs;

In Chapter Three it was noted that some of Schaeffer's L'Abri colleagues thought he was adopting the perspectability approach. By this they meant that at certain points, certain perspectives need to be emphasized, albeit they are not given a higher importance.

My church has an historical emphasis on peace, but we can't enjoy peace without honoring the blood our soldiers shed for it.

I am also trying to emphasize another point, namely, that both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!

UAWs tend to live above their means; they emphasize consumption. And they tend to de-emphasize many of the key factors that underlie wealth building. YOU

If one chooses to call tests that require the mastery of abstractions culturally biased, because some cultures put more emphasis on abstractions than others, that raises fundamental questions about what the tests are for. In a world where the ability to master abstractions is fundamental to mathematics, science and other endeavors, the measurement of that ability is not an arbitrary bias. A culture-free test might be appropriate in a culture-free society—but there are no such societies.

This remark stands in abrupt contrast to the fantasy of the Egyptian statue. Miss Miller evidently has an unspoken need to emphasize her almost magical influence over another person. This, too, could not have happened without an inner compulsion, such as is particularly noticeable in one who often does not succeed in establishing a real emotional relationship. She will then solace herself with the idea of her almost magical powers of suggestion.