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Author:Diane Wilson

“When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an 18-year-old I didn't know if I had a huge amount I wanted to express. It was a big moment when I decided I wanted to shift the emphasis or the intention of my art from something I disgorged myself upon and something that actually fed me or made me see the world or understand the world.”

Ifs Knows World Years Mean Art Made Self Moments Bigs Wanted School Expression Huge Amount Art Is Decided Intention Feds Emphasis Self Expression Art School Art Education

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.”

Should Humans Values Avoiding Emphasis Cultivating Human Values Wastage

Book:Education in human values

Source: Education in human values

“It does not seem proper to speak of one attribute of God as being more central and fundamental than another; but if this were permissible, the Scriptural emphasis on the holiness of God would seem to justify its selection.”

Ifs Doe Seems Speak Fundamentals Holiness Justify Attributes Emphasis Selection Holiness Of God Attributes Of God

Book:Systematic Theology

Source: Systematic Theology

“We put the wrong emphasis on what beauty is and what health is. Health is being vibrant and having energy and being happy.”

Energy Emphasis

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives, they will. For too long, we've looked at needing to "save" these people - with an emphasis on "these people" - rather than removing the constraints keeping them from solving their own problems.”

People Ifs Giving Humans Long Problem Spirit Opportunity Poverty Extraordinary Billions Emphasis Human Spirit Constraints Opportunity To Change

Author:Jacqueline Novogratz

“There are many important books on oral history. My book was the launch title in the Understanding Qualitative Research series with Oxford University Press. I think what makes my book and all of the series books unique is the emphasis on writing instruction for researchers who want to use the method being described.”

“I think there is much more storytelling in stand-up now. Less emphasis on the joke. Jokes are still important, but it feels like a more intimate and personal experience these days.”

Thinking Feels Stills Important Jokes Storytelling These Days Intimate Emphasis Personal Experiences

Author:Doug Benson

“There's such an emphasis on making money that we've really taken the humanity out of business.”

Humanity Taken Making Money Emphasis

Author:Paul Tudor Jones

“What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by ... creating units of intent and emphasis, and by contouring the meloding pitch changes in the narrative-line.”

Eye Language Lines Break Creating Connections Ears Add Narrative Prose Units Emphasis Prosody

Author:Diane Wakoski

“Since the days of Greece and Rome the word 'citizen' was a title of honor. We have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.”

Responsibility Rights Citizens Honor Titles Rome Citizenship Emphasis Greece Greece And Rome

Book:RFK: collected speeches

Source: RFK: collected speeches

“Sometimes just being an immigrant, I read things the wrong way, and that can be funny. Or I'll put the emphasis on the wrong word, and that can be funny. I have an affinity for comedy because I like to watch them. It's an honor to make comedies because I love being able to pop something into the DVD player and laugh. I love doing it.”

Way Sometimes Able Love Is Watches Laughing Comedy Player Honor Pops Immigrants Just Being Emphasis Wrong Way Dvds Affinity Wrong Words

Author:John Cho

“I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.”

Littles School Process Building Architecture Architect Emphasis Mating

Book:The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1999: presented to Sir Norman Foster

Source: The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1999: presented to Sir Norman Foster

“In the end, I'm convinced we will all benefit if suspicion is replaced by discussion, innuendo by dialogue; if the emphasis in our debate turns from a search for talismanic criteria and neat but simplistic answers to an honest - more intelligent - attempt at describing the role religion has in our public affairs, and the limits placed on that role.”

Source: Public Papers of Governor Mario M. Cuomo, 1984

“Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.”

Sin Despair Weakness Oneself Lawyer Conception Emphasis Defiance Aggravated

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone can be interpreted as a judgment on other people's company. Liking to be quiet can be construed as aloofness. There is so much emphasis on community in most congregations that anyone who does not participate risks being labeled a loner.”

People Ifs Doe Happens Past Difficult Community Church Company Risk Quiet Judgment Introvert Pastor Emphasis Loner Congregation Aloofness

Book:An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

Source: An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

“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.”

Ideas Company Successful Products Development Method Marketing Experiments Emphasis Successful Business New Products New Company

Author:Richard Branson

“I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He has a phrase which goes something like 'Anxiety, boredom and inconstancy, that is the human condition' and I've always been very partial to that.”

Humans Conditions Anxiety Phrases Boredom Human Condition Emphasis Wretchedness Pascal Inconstancy

Author:Simon Critchley

“The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.”

Civilization Contempt Emphasis Brutality Savagery

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“What is wrong with encouraging students to put "how well they're doing" ahead of "what they're doing." An impressive and growing body of research suggests that this emphasis (1) undermines students' interest in learning, (2) makes failure seem overwhelming, (3) leads students to avoid challenging themselves, (4) reduces the quality of learning, and (5) invites students to think about how smart they are instead of how hard they tried.”

Thinking Wells Hard Body Seems Interest Challenges Quality Growing Students Smart Research Overwhelming Invites Emphasis Impressive

Book:The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and

Source: The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and

“Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.”

Children Whole Problem Suffering Approach Educational Educated Emphasis Educator One Sided

Book:Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality

Source: Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality

“If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.”

Ifs Might Standards Grades Relax Faculty Emphasis Orientation

Book:Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

Source: Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

“We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a will to win. I don't. I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win.”

Thinking Important Kids Winning Loses Team Coaches Winner Coaching Emphasis Will To Win

Author:Bobby Knight

“While we have put an utmost emphasis on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) as a barometer for the overall economy until now, we have not paid much attention in detecting a level of social welfare. We, as a member of the society, must now take steps to create an index to indicate other critical elements to be focused on in order to restore reliability of world statistics.”

“There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.”

Humans Enough Joy Suffering Too Much Music Is Perfection Irony Emphasis Human Suffering

Author:Mstislav Rostropovich

“Following the attacks in Paris, French President François Hollande has a completely different set of concerns. France needs more police, more security personnel and a greater emphasis on integration. He says that security is more important than the Stability Pact.”

Needs Important Different President Greater Security Concern Police Following France Paris Stability Integration Emphasis Personnel Pact

Author:Martin Schulz

“At Reliance Foundation schools, we lay special emphasis on value-based education, sports, and overall development of students. That is why the teacher-students ratio is kept at a healthy 1:20 so that all children get proper attention in class.”

Children School Values Sports Attention Class Teacher Special Students Development Healthy Foundation Lays Emphasis Reliance Ratios Teacher Student

Author:Nita Ambani

“But the 20th century suffered "two" ideologies that led to genocides. The other one, Marxism, had no use for race, didn't believe in genes and denied that human nature was a meaningful concept. Clearly, it's not an emphasis on genes or evolution that is dangerous. It's the desire to remake humanity by coercive means (eugenics or social engineering) and the belief that humanity advances through a struggle in which superior groups (race or classes) triumph over inferior ones.”

“Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least "deserving" in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.”

“The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"”

Christianity Finished Contemporary Overwhelming Biblical Emphasis Just Do It

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.”

Men Facts Names Disciple Emphasis Saviour Save Me

Book:Bringing Sons Unto Glory: Studies in the Life of Our Lord

Source: Bringing Sons Unto Glory: Studies in the Life of Our Lord

“... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it.”

Ifs Has Beens Spiritual Young Values Attitude Moral Streets Materials Weakness Destroyed Young Women Emphasis County Material Things Submerged Attire Spiritual Values Moral Strength

Author:Malcolm X

“The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.”

Giving Suffering Speak Conditions Truth Is Existential Emphasis Examined Life

Author:Cornel West

“I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.”

Mean Keys Minors Emphasis

Author:Cornel West

“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.”

Should Long Doe Past Understanding Events Mere Patient Emphasis Past Events

Book:The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy

Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy

“Apple embodies a lot of what have been defined as feminine traits: an emphasis on intuitive design, intellect, a strong sense of creativity, and that striving to always make the greatest version of something.”

Has Beens Strong Creativity Design Strive Intellect Versions Defined Apples Feminine Traits Emphasis Intuitive

Author:Louis C. K.

“In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.”

Children Whole Shows Activity Labor Cameras My Children Attachment Emphasis Investigators Child Labor

Author:Lewis Hine

“The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.”

Thinking Giving I Can Play Guy Movement Possibility Return Give Me Infinite Jazz Tunes Strings Fewer Thick Conventional Emphasis Chords Variation Infinite Possibilities

Author:Miles Davis

“If tone is granted to be subjected to control, why not line also, which has equal emotional significance? And if line, why not shapes and forms? And if shapes and forms, why not allow elision or emphasis of detail? And if all these things are allowed, what becomes of the record of actuality ?... Sunk without a trace!”

Ifs Form Lines Records Emotional Shapes Equal Details Granted Tone Significance Why Not Emphasis Actuality Without A Trace

Author:William Mortensen

“The left’s idea of “science” is that we should all be riding bicycles and using the Clivus Multrum composting latrines instead of flush toilets. Anyone who dissents, they say — while adjusting their healing crystals for emphasis — is “afraid of science.””

Should Ideas Left Healing Riding Emphasis Toilets Crystals Dissent Bicycle Adjusting Riding A Bicycle

Author:Ann Coulter

“Paul's lack of concern with the historical Jesus is not due, as some have argued, to his emphasis on Christological rather than historical concerns. It is due to the simple fact that Paul had no idea who the living Jesus was, nor did he care.”

Ideas Facts Care Jesus Simple Concern Historical Dues No Idea Emphasis Historical Jesus

Author:Reza Aslan

“Yes, too much emphasis is put on outward physical attributes in every area of American life.”

Too Much Areas Attributes Emphasis American Life

Author:Gloria Gaynor

“India was not a pacifist country at all. India placed great emphasis on the higher value on... on violence. But it was never a substitute for not doing anything, or for cowardice.”

Country Values Violence Higher India Substitutes Cowardice Emphasis Pacifist

Author:Subramanian Swamy

“I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself.”

Thinking Might Too Much Limits Emphasis

Author:Tommy Lee

“All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable for the public to draw such an inference from their advertised emphasis on professional management.”

Promise Draws Performances Organization Management Investment Superiors Emphasis Unreasonable Inference

Author:Warren Buffett

“Christian hypocrites who pretend to hate life and love death. He may talk about the soul-what he is after is the girl Love means suffering-those who love drag a chain with them. To her it was not a belief but a certainty Trifling incident gains importance when undue emphasis is laid.”

Source: The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers

“I want to emphasis again, Governor (Thomas) Kean and Congressman (Lee) Hamilton pointed out that congressional oversight also was a major contributor to our failures prior to 9/11 and that has to be fixed as well.”

Want Wells Majors Fixed Governors Emphasis Congressman Hamilton Contributors Oversight

Author:John McCain

“We're not spending enough money, but probably we let the teachers unions set curriculas which don't teach them the right things. There's not emphasis on the ...the basic learning that you need if you're going to go on in a college and into post-graduate work.”

Ifs Needs Enough Teach Teacher College Goes On Unions Spending Posts Right Thing Graduates Emphasis Teachers Unions

Author:Rupert Murdoch

“(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.”

School Right Thing Emphasis Doing The Right Thing

Author:Thomas J. Sergiovanni

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