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Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings. -- Adam Driver
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. -- Jean Philippe Rameau
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
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
Emphasis should be laid on the evolution of humanity, -- Alice Bailey
There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut. -- James Patterson
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. -- Jean Philippe Rameau
Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept. -- Ansel Adams
Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity. -- Charles Francis Richter
We Experiment Endlessly, With New Products, New Methods, New Companies And New Marketing. A Successful Business The Emphasis Is On Experiment And Development, Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. -- Richard Branson
Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred. -- Milton H. Erickson
Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper. -- Elie Wiesel
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
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. -- William Rounseville Alger
The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes. -- Haridas Chaudhuri
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. -- Tom Stoppard
It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality. -- Rosanna Arquette
I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity. -- Benny Hinn
There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels. -- Denise Mina
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. -- Vladimir Nabokov
President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams. -- Jonathan Kozol
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. -- Ismail Merchant
The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. -- Enid Bagnold
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail -- William Westmoreland
I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable. -- Don Henley
The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question. -- Peter Drucker
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. -- Calvin Coolidge
So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues. -- Huston Smith
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
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality. -- Alexis Korner
The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence. -- Jenny Shipley
Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles. -- Paul Volcker
Growing up, there wasn't much emphasis on being nice or naughty. As a family, there wasn't much discipline. It was more relaxed at home, which I'm grateful for. -- Isla Fisher
Given that the biggest rise in childhood obesity rates are occurring in children ages 3 to 5 years, we must modify our efforts to place an emphasis on prevention versus intervention. -- Darell Hammond
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
I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living. -- Christopher Hitchens
I think there's so much emphasis on body image and results and outcome, but really what you should be after is to be healthy and to feel good about yourself. -- Abby Wambach
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
If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women. -- Harri Holkeri
25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that. -- Mark Messier
My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis. -- Karl Philipp Moritz
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
On the East Coast, people try to make life interesting. On the West Coast, they try to make it comfortable. The emphasis here is on fancy cars, how one looks, less on the mind per se. -- Al Seckel
I think we should be pushing for amnesty and a path to citizenship for every undocumented person residing in the United States who has not committed a violent crime, with a special emphasis on keeping families together. -- Conor Oberst
There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you've got the chemistry for a lot of industry. -- Stephen Covey
A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This knowledge-based approach will bring immense returns, particularly in rain fed and dry land farming areas. -- Pratibha Patil
Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another. -- John Clayton
Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition. -- Charles Vest
Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that. -- Lee H. Hamilton
Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail. -- Bram Cohen
If I could sum up 'Shadow's Claim' in six words: cage fights with hot alpha males. Seriously, though, while the fights are the backdrop for Trehan and Bettina's love story, the main emphasis is on how Trehan - a pitiless master assassin - wages the ultimate battle to win her heart. -- Kresley Cole
Society has a hyper emphasis on thin, and that trend comes from the consumers - it does not come from the fashion industry. The fashion industry needs to make money; that's what we do. If people said, 'We want a 300 pound purple person,' the first industry to do it would be fashion. -- Kelly Cutrone
We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids. -- Dale Archer
Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. -- Roger Ebert
I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that's the case, then I guess I'm happy to hear it. -- Ken Watanabe
As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost Cause' emphasis on the Confederacy. I used to play Civil War soldiers with my brothers as a child, and my older brother always insisted that he got to be Lee, and I got be Grant. I never knew that Grant won until quite some time had passed. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
Simplification establishes an unspoken emphasis on relationship. -- Kim John Payne
Our emphasis is on execution, not winning. -- Pat Summitt
People put too much emphasis on looks. -- Shawn Johnson
I put heavy emphasis on the characters. -- Keenen Ivory Wayans
In law also the emphasis makes the song. -- Felix Frankfurter
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. -- William Rounseville Alger
I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis. -- Neil LaBute
I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right. -- Tony Blair
The emphasis should be on why we do a job. -- W. Edwards Deming
I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism. -- Harry Hay
Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis. -- Amiri Baraka
More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk. -- Walter Schloss
Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary. -- Benjamin Disraeli
We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys. -- Gloria Steinem
Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair. -- Dalai Lama
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
In addition to showing gratitude to others, place emphasis on showing gratitude to yourself -- Doreen Virtue
I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys. -- Cornel West
The emphasis in tantra is not what you find yourself doing, it's on meditation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete. -- Diane Wilson
In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be. -- Huston Smith
The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them. -- Jean de la Bruyere
What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it! -- Janice Dickinson
Bonhoeffer's emphasis on the deep this-worldliness of Christianity does not lead to de-escahtologizing the gospel. -- G. C. Berkouwer
Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts. -- Taiichi Ohno
All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex. -- David Bowie
Chris [Farley] - I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on "animal." -- Rob Lowe
Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.' -- Ben Bernanke
(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things. -- Thomas J. Sergiovanni
The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things. -- Margaret Mitchell
And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important. -- Janet Suzman
Yes, too much emphasis is put on outward physical attributes in every area of American life. -- Gloria Gaynor
There's such an emphasis on making money that we've really taken the humanity out of business -- Paul Tudor Jones
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. -- Conrad Black
In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Every other consideration and plan and emphasis is secondary to that of wielding the forces of prayer. -- John Mott
All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth. -- David Fontana
In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength. -- Temple Grandin
Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job. -- James Fallows
But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot. -- Bill Bruford
The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis. -- Cornel West
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. -- Diane Wakoski
The emphasis in Scripture is not the amount we give, but the attitude with which we give. -- Dillon Burroughs
I'm Doctor McMahon with a Ph.D. in sweet-ass rock with an emphasis in set list creation. -- Andrew McMahon
No, no... She shook her head for emphasis. No. His lips twitched. - One 'no' is enough, darling. -- Lisa Kleypas
I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment. -- Angela Merkel
To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only. -- Paul Klee
There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
The Bible's emphasis is on the good treatment of animals, and not just the forbidding of cruel treatment. -- Billy Graham
Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse. -- Paul Craig Roberts
The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished" -- Tullian Tchividjian
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence. -- John Clayton
When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented. -- Andy Andrews
Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation. -- Aga Khan IV
Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere. -- Freeman Dyson
Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants. -- Bertha Knight Landes
My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor. -- Mike Berenstain
The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed. -- Tullian Tchividjian
I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality. -- Winston Churchill
The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation. -- Chogyam Trungpa

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