Emphasis Quotes

• What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Heart, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

  H. R. Giger

  Depressing, Thinking, Blood

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• I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Emotional, Careers, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes.

  Haridas Chaudhuri

  Creativity, Perfection, Awareness

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• I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Character, Comedy, Heavy

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• The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

  Enid Bagnold

  Art, Names, Theatre

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• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Jobs, Children, College

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• In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

  Huston Smith

  Reality, Ought

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• False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Exaggeration Is, White Collar, Eloquent

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• I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.

  Benny Hinn

  Too Much, Prosperity, Terrible

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• I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.

  Anton Seidl

  Mean, Simple, Horny

  Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.102, Parrot Press

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• I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.

  Harry Hay

  Gay, Consumerism, Presses

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• I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

  Pam Grier

  Appearance, Grew Up, Grew

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• The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Women, Abortion, Privacy

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• 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.

  Mitch Albom

  Believe, Mean, Average

  CNN Interactive's Tuesday Book Chat, www.cnn.com. 2001.

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• The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on "official" institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny.

  Bob Schaffer

  Destiny, Reality, Ukraine

  "Go Orange!". National Review Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

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• People put too much emphasis on looks.

  Shawn Johnson

  People, Looks, Too Much

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• The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Jobs, Business Success, Quality

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• Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

  Janet Suzman

  Thinking, Self, Hands

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• If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Honesty, Men

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• Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'

  Ai Weiwei

  Philosophy, Stronger, Landscape

  "Gold Is Not the Real Measure of a Nation". www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2008.

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• Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve their standards and maintain their vigor. I have been forced to the conclusion that an over-emphasis of science weakens character and upsets life's essential balance.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Character, Science, Upset

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• I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

  Rick Warren

  Compassion, Government, Justice

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• Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world is an aggressive, hyperactive, competitive, masculine world, and it needs the woman's touch as never before.

  Eva Burrows

  Needs, World, Today

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• On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Drug, Firsts, Benefits

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