Emphasis Quotations

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.

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.

It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.

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.

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.

I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.

Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity.

Conservatory training is so much. There's so much emphasis on playing perfectly in tune and being perfect and doing everything as it's written.

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.

Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to be very congenial to people in the libertarian tradition.

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.

One of the most beautiful things that recruited me to join the LaRouche movement is its emphasis on Classical singing and composition, especially with the Negro Spirituals, adding a new depth of profundity to songs I had sang while growing up.

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.

The city of Tehran is a very modern metropolis, and there's an emphasis in the Islamic republic on science and advancement and technology.

My main quarrel with liberalism is not that liberalism places great emphasis on individual rights - I believe rights are very important and need to be respected. The issue is whether it is possible to define and justify our rights without taking a stand on the moral and even sometimes religious convictions that citizens bring to public life.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

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

Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early emphasis on openness in government seems almost inevitable.

Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've heard some say they would rather rear their children in a closely guarded Islamic society than in the United States, where freedom so often leads to decadence.

I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award.

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.

We need to start training more primary health providers and fewer specialists. We will never be able to control health care costs unless we challenge the over-emphasis on medical research, specialists and technology and put more emphasis on delivering good, everyday basic medicine to those who now have none.

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.

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

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.

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.

You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing two, three novels before you hit it big. You know, now, there's much more of an emphasis in the publishing houses on making sure that every book makes money.

I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis.

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

What bothers me is that there is so much emphasis on food, rather than gathering and meeting - so that there is all this effort in creating the right food, whereas the food is only a small part of whether the encounter is successful or not.

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

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

The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.

It used to be that you made an album and then you went on the road to promote that album, hoping for good record sales. Well, good record sales basically don't exist any more, and the emphasis has been more on the live show.

I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment.

One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order contributes to inner calm. More than it should.

Professional players work almost every day, for hours on end, and the emphasis is on the word 'work.' It can be with a partner or it can be alone, but professional chess is always a pursuit of something new and surprising.

The emphasis on innovation and technology in our companies has resulted in a few of them establishing global benchmarks in product design and development, manufacturing practices and human resource capabilities. However, there is no room for complacency.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Ever since Adam's day, the divine law of the Sabbath has been emphasized repeatedly over the centuries more than any other commandment. This long emphasis alone is an indication of its importance.

You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.

Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.'

We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys.

On November 1, everybody's in shape. There wouldn't be an issue with pitch counts. There wouldn't be an issue with knocking the rust off coming into spring training. Things like that. I think it would be a little bit better tournament. You'd probably see a little more offense and a little more emphasis on starting pitching.

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.

I was surprised people put relatively little emphasis on the value of the interior of their car. What we find is a lot of people are losing a lot of money by not paying attention to resale value.

When I compared the two schools, here the faculty had a much stronger emphasis on environmental education. I'm very glad I picked here.

Like he?s been saying all week, we?re here for a business trip. We want to win this game, so the biggest thing is we need to put emphasis on the fact that we?re prepared and rested and taking on things the way we would be if we were playing in South Bend right now.

Obviously, we didn't do very well with the big boy last year. We're certainly going to have more emphasis - not that we didn't last year - but we're going to make sure our kids are surrounding him and try to make somebody else beat us.

One important finding is the emphasis on business skills. There has always been a need for that, but now employers want IT workers to have industry knowledge and business skills from the start. Computer science is very technical by design, but two of the more popular areas in demand are systems analysis and systems design, both of which are customer-facing positions that require user interaction and communications skills.

One of our points of emphasis at halftime was to stop the unforced turnovers Susquehanna committed 12. We also had to find a way to get defensive stops.

One of our points of emphasis was to go out to a quick start. That's definitely what we did tonight. We scored early and we shot the ball well, very well.

One of our primary goals this spring was to allow this team to form their own chemistry. Hard work and fun are important parts of the equation. We worked hard on and off the field with an emphasis on enjoying each other.

More new-vehicle shoppers are visiting manufacturer sites, and their experiences on these sites have never been better. We expect to see even more emphasis on these sites as manufacturers compete to deliver the best total shopping experience possible and shoppers wade through the largest selection of models ever offered.

Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.

Neither as a complement nor as a replacement do I support the concept of intelligent design being taught in schools, ... I believe that evolution and science are the place that we ought to give emphasis to.

Never before in the history of sports has there been such an emphasis on public safety,

Now we're in a mode of growth and developing opportunities, ... As a company, we have focused more on new product development. There has been a lot of emphasis based on advanced technology.

Philadelphia is unique, in that case. Nationally, what is happening is less emphasis on social-studies courses rather than more.

Obviously in the SEC, there's a tremendous emphasis on rebounding. That's definitely been one of our focuses in practice.

Newer products are landing this month and it will really be the second half before we start to see an emphasis on improvement in home performance.

New regulations would be a disaster at this point. Nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the level of individual atoms and molecules, offers the greatest benefits for society if left to grow through modest regulation, civilian research, and an emphasis on self-regulation and responsible professional culture.

Right now my biggest emphasis is on location, making sure they're quality pitches and I feel good. (Velocity) is something that comes, get a couple of more times out and that will take care of itself.

I did take the ranking into account as a helpful guide rather than something I put an extreme emphasis on.

I don't know what it is. I can't answer it. The emphasis going into the game is to start aggressive; in a way to send a message we're going to play hard. I don't know what the deal is. We're a team that really needs some wins.

If we put a lot of stress and emphasis on it, it will probably get in his head a little. But it's not a problem. It's not a concern. We'll keep working through it.

If we put a lot of stress and emphasis on it, then, at times, it gets into your head a little bit.

Less than ten per cent of cancer research funding goes to early detection. Our emphasis is on collaboration across technologies and institutions. We have assembled some of the world's leading researchers, including Dr. Brad Nelson from the BC Cancer Agency, to attack early detection in a new collaborative approach.

Last year, we got pounded on the boards. That was the emphasis from everybody on this team, from top to bottom.

Looks like a people plan as opposed to a business plan. The emphasis seems to be improving peoples lives by improving social infrastructure. I don't know if there are enough goodies to have an impact on financial markets although if the whole country feels better it would be good for markets.

Lots of things that smell are legal. But if a candidate is putting an emphasis on ethics, then he has an obligation that the spirit of the law be adhered to, not just the letter.

We're confident that the proposed middle school program, with its emphasis on communication arts and mathematics, will improve student performance at this level. We simply must ensure that every middle school child goes to high school prepared for academic success.

We're similar defensively. They place more of a heavy emphasis on the (3-point shot), but we are probably quicker and more athletic.

Losing this natural hazards emphasis for FEMA is getting to be quite a concern.

legitimate movement that believes in security and peace; they have differences of emphasis and approach from ours.

Much emphasis has been placed on the delays imposed on industry as it works to comply with seasonal stipulations, ... Certainly, an element of delay cannot be denied, but they are rarely overly burdensome.

Since the 2000 guidelines, research has strengthened our emphasis on effective CPR as a critically important step in helping save lives.

Medicare Health Support is a tremendous advance in Medicare, ... It represents a shift in emphasis from simply waiting to treat costly complications and emergencies once they arise, to investing in helping Medicare beneficiaries with chronic disease stay well.

She developed the King Center in Atlanta, and she made it possible for his message, particularly his emphasis on nonviolence which many people sort of have let slip -- she helped keep that alive.

Many believe that foods make you put on weight because of what it is, rather than how much there is. They often over-emphasize the role of portion content and don't put enough emphasis on portion size. This can lead to people thinking that more radical changes are needed to prevent weight gain than may be the case, and making choices that lead to less personal satisfaction and that they will be less likely to stick to over time.

So many people put so much emphasis on the Pittsburgh game,

So far the literature has focused on verifiable external stressors with less emphasis on how they are experienced by the individual, ... The same external stressor may result in different levels of stress in different people. A measure of self-reported stress therefore provides a better measure of the actual level of stress experienced by the individual.

Shoppers are putting a renewed emphasis on customer service. When shoppers go shopping, they want to be taken care of, especially on the crazy Saturday right before the holidays.

the primary emphasis is on care and not security.

I would say that Cosmo was always a feminist magazine; it was before the movement really took shape. The early feminist movement felt I put a lot of emphasis on beauty, which was true.

He is serious but improving, with the emphasis on improving, ... The infection has caused him to be severely ill, but he is certainly responding to treatment and we hope to move him out of intensive care in the next 24 hours.

I can't put too much emphasis on the positive of a football game. But it is a good diversion.