“ The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. ”
- Enid Bagnold- Copy
- 147
“ What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 972
“ My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel. ”
- Roseanne Barr- Copy
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“ I put a lot of emphasis on children's issues. Children are many times ignored because they don't vote, and they don't have lobby groups. ”
- Mike DeWine- Copy
- 262
“ The one function that 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. ”
- David Brinkley- Copy
- 259
“ Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within. ”
- Brad Pitt- Copy
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“ There's pressure all the time. It's stressful going to a premiere and having to look perfect, and everybody scrutinizes what you're wearing. It's scary. There's so much emphasis put on the physical. ”
- Liv Tyler- Copy
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“ I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ I know that unless I'm true to myself I couldn't be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character. ”
- Betty White- Copy
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“ Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- David Brinkley- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. ”
- Calvin Coolidge- Copy
- 1.8K
“ In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be. ”
- Huston Smith- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Often we place too much emphasis on the desired results, and not enough on the person we need to be to achieve and support those results. ”
- Larry Hehn- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. ”
- Ruth Bader Ginsberg- Copy
- 3.6K
“ We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out — they will come in. ”
- Jess Moody- Copy
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“ There's the obvious musical programming - the slavish conformity of programmers and the overwhelming triumph of play lists and 'emphasis cuts' seen all around the country. It should be obvious to anyone listening to the radio that, like fast food, there is a lack of distinction everywhere you look. ”
- John Hall- Copy
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“ My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz. ”
- Dan Hicks- Copy
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“ The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system. ”
- Abraham Robinson- Copy
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“ The Way of a Warrior is based on humanity, love, and sincerity; the heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love, and friendship. Emphasis on the physical aspects of warriorship is futile, for the power of the body is always limited. ”
- Morihei Ueshiba- Copy
- 3.8K
“ There was never a time when so much official effort was being expended to produce happiness, and probably never a time when so little attention was paid by the individual to creating the personal qualities that make for it. What one misses most today is the evidence of widespread personal determination to develop a character that will in itself, given any reasonable odds, make for happiness… ”
- William Ogden- Copy
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“ Conflict occurs when the emphasis in a relationship is on the differences between people… You get along better with people when the emphasis is on similarities between you. The difference between a conflict with a friend and conflict with a difficult person is that with a friend the conflict is tempered by the common ground you share… ”
- Dr. Rick Brinkman and Dr. Rick Kirschner- Copy
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“ Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems." Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him. ”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale- Copy
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“ Most people receive very little training on how to live effectively and harmoniously with themselves and others. This I believe is an unfortunate outcome of our parenting beliefs and methods, as well as society's educational systems. It seems to me these beliefs and systems empathize academic and vocational skills and place little or no emphasis or value on providing a person with the essential skills to live a life of personal fulfillment, contribution and self actualization… ”
- Sidney Madwed- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation. ”
- Margaret Mead- Copy
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“ Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music… ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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