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“Too often, attention is diverted from the needs of populations, insufficient emphasis is placed on work in the fields, and the goods of the earth are not given adequate protection. As a result, economic imbalance is produced, and the inalienable rights and dignity of every human person are ignored.”

Needs Humans Persons Earth Given Results Attention Rights Economic Fields Dignity Population Protection Goods Ignored Emphasis Adequate Insufficient Imbalance Inalienable Rights

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

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

Feels Too Much Materials Terrible Prosperity Emphasis

Author:Benny Hinn

“Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.”

Musical Poetry Is Emphasis

Author:Amiri Baraka

“Technological measures are important, but equally important is... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility.”

Important Consciousness Responsibility Climate Technological Emphasis Commonality Shared Responsibility

Author:Vaclav Havel

“The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If they are mainly small, weak, superficial, and incoherent, life will appear insipid , uninteresting, petty and chaotic.”

“Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.”

Winning Coaching Execution Emphasis

Author:Pat Summitt

“Without doubt the emphasis in Christian teaching today should be on worship. There is little danger that we shall become merely worshipers and neglect the practical implications of the gospel. No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist. Fellowship with God leads straight to obedience and good works. That is the divine order and it can never be reversed.”

“Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their efforts to help organizations improve their risk-management practices...We are also considering the need for additional or revised supervisory guidance regarding various aspects of risk management, including further emphasis on the need for an enterprise-wide perspective when assessing risk.”

“Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.”

Sex Forget Feminist Servant Never Forget Womanhood Emphasis Public Servants

Author:Bertha Knight Landes

“The creation message has matured over the past three decades, as the discernment and understanding of creationist leaders has matured. More and more, the emphasis is on the foundational issue: compromise of Genesis ultimately undermines the gospel itself.”

Past Three Understanding Leader Issues Creation Messages Decades Compromise Emphasis Discernment Genesis Over The Past Matured Creationist

Author:Ken Ham

“Balance of light is the problem, not the amount. Balance between shadows and highlights determines where the emphasis goes in the picture...make sure the major light in a picture falls at right angles to the camera.”

Problem Light Fall Amount Balance Photography Majors Shadow Cameras Determine Angle Emphasis Highlights

Author:Elliott Erwitt

“The accent in the counter attack style of play lays on the defensive team function, with the emphasis being on the defender's own half of the field and letting the opponents keep the initiative of the game. This is to take advantage of the space behind their defense for the buildup and the attack.”

Play Games Space Behinds Half Team Style Fields Advantage Function Lays Defense Opponents Initiative Accents Emphasis Defenders Counter Attack

Author:Rinus Michels

“We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more government, we need more culture. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. It is on that side of life that it is desirable to put the emphasis at the present time. If that side be strengthened, the other side will take care of itself.”

Source: America's Need for Education: And Other Educational Addresses

“Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make one quest: liberty and justice for all. Whether one's special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.”

Source: The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

“Whether on'e special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.”

Humans Children Causes Justice Compassion Special Welfare Global Warming Being Human Emphasis Liberty And Justice For All Informed Citizens

Author:Carl Safina

“There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.”

People Ifs Way Shows Situation Particular Jokes Emphasis Spontaneity

Author:Larry David

“We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the average person means earning a lot of money and having a home, two cars, children in college. Success to me is entirely different to what success is to the average person. Success is being a successful human being in terms of pursuing what you believe in. If you believe in making paintings, writing poetry, writing music. If this is what you really want, you're successful to yourself. But to be successful to your culture means to sell yourself short of what you really want”

“I put a lot of emphasis on childrens issues. Children are many times ignored because they dont vote, and they dont have lobby groups.”

Children Issues Groups Vote Ignored Emphasis

Author:Mike DeWine

“Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts.”

Important Facts Courses Data Emphasis Manufacturing

Author:Taiichi Ohno

“Finally, if you will permit me, I'd like to make a comment which in my mind, is indicative, perhaps, of the greater significance of football and sports emphasis in general in this country, and that is, I thank God I was warring on the gridirons of the Midwest and not on the battlefields of Europe. I can speak confidently and positively that the players of this country would much more, much rather, struggle and fight to win the Heisman award than the Croix de guerre.”

Ifs Mind I Can Country Fighting Winning Speak Sports Struggle Greater Player Football Europe Significance Awards Comment Permit Thank God Emphasis Positively Battlefields Midwest Gridiron

Author:Nile Kinnick

“In Sweden, water fluoridation, to my knowledge, is no longer advocated by anybody. In Sweden, the emphasis nowadays is to keep the environment as clean as possible with regard to pharmacologically active and, thus, potentially toxic substances.”

Water Environment Regard Clean Active Substance Toxic Emphasis Sweden

Author:Arvid Carlsson

“Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.”

Firsts Common Cry Humankind Emphasis

Author:Jean-Philippe Rameau

“There's a lot more emphasis placed on torsion and coil and leverage. Basically, the women are being taught very much along the same lines as the men. You don't have to consider strength as a factor so much. These girls are working out like fiends. It's a trend that's going to continue.”

Men Girl Lines Taught He Man Work Out Factors Trends Emphasis

Author:David Leadbetter

“When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.”

Humans Human Beings Deals Too Much Machines Genes Emphasis Complication

Author:Richard Dawkins

“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.”

Way Heart Body Humanity Aspect Bravery Warrior Sincerity Emphasis Valor Love And Friendship Way Of The Warrior Love Wisdom True Warrior

Book:The Art of Peace

Source: The Art of Peace

“Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.”

Giving Wells Sadness Sad Giving Up Longing Melancholy Emphasis Never Giving Up Never Give Up On Love

Author:Ismail Merchant

“The emphasis in Scripture is not the amount we give, but the attitude with which we give.”

Giving Attitude Amount Scripture Emphasis

Author:Dillon Burroughs

“As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more harmful in those schools in which the resources available to help the children learn the skills that will be measured by these tests are fewest, the scores they get are predictably the lowest, and the strategies resorted to by principals in order to escape the odium attaching to a disappointing set of numbers tend to be the most severe.”

Source: The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

“Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.”

Men Individual Sports Focus Team Balance Achievement Emphasis Sports Team Individual Achievement

Author:Warren Farrell

“It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.”

Fairs Sexuality Emphasis Not Fair

Author:Rosanna Arquette

“The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.”

Sex Attention Media Fashion Scene Band Safety Emphasis Pins Pistols Sex Pistols Good Bands Safety Pins

Author:Greg Ginn

“The emphasis should be on why we do a job.”

Should Jobs Quality Management Improvement Business Success Emphasis Quality In Business

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and our courts from having to fight losing battles against drug use will enable their energies and facilities to be devoted more fully to combating other forms of crime.”

“I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love end it with changed emphasis.”

Ends Eye Stars Rooms Doors Changed Mountain Clouds Nails Fog Emphasis Rust

Book:Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994

Source: Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994

“We've got the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble when it comes to crime in this country. The FBI says burglary and robbery cost U.S. taxpayers $3.8 billion annually. Securities fraud alone costs four times that. And securities fraud is nothing to the cost of oil spills, price-fixing, and dangerous or defective products. Fraud by health-care corporations alone costs us between $100 billion and $400 billion a year. No three-strikes-and-you're-out for these guys. Remember the S&L scandal? $500 billion.”

“I wasn't putting too much emphasis on it (the booing). I think that you have to put it behind you.”

Thinking Behinds Too Much Emphasis Behind You Booing

Author:Dany Heatley

“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.”

Mean Helping Action Simple Lifts Significance Passages Emphasis Insignificant Horns Incidents Violin Horny Scenic

Book:On Conducting

Source: On Conducting

“The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.”

Love Life Long Death Certain Animal Generations Blood Murder Chains Certainty Commandments Emphasis Murderer

Book:Reflections

Source: Reflections

“If you are collector, let other people share your pride and joy. Don't sprinkle your collection out of sight in a meaningless jumble. Notice how groups of small objects, when they are well arranged, become important and effective. Remember that repetition is a form of emphasis. Collect what you will, but see to it that you arrange your hobby to its best advantage.”

People Ifs Wells Important Remember Form Joy Groups Share Objects Pride Advantage Sight Collections Meaningless Hobbies Repetition Emphasis Collectors Sprinkles Small Objects

Author:Dorothy Draper

“American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture’s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls’ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior.”

Play Body Culture Girl Parent Behavior Eating Concern Increase Psychological Vulnerability Disorder Association Emphasis Body Image Eating Disorder Pitfalls Sexiness

Book:Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture

Source: Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture

“I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself making perfect runs with emphasis on technique, all the way through to what my personal best is in practice.... The more you work with this type of visualization, especially when you do it on a day-to-day basis, you'll actually begin to feel your muscles contracting at the appropriate times.”

Source: Camille Duvall's Instructional Guide to Water Skiing

“You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters interesting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.”

Way Character Suspects Continuing Emphasis

Author:Jane Haddam

“The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.”

Wells Enough Action Language Simple Deeds Emphasis Spoil

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

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

Art Names Built Theater Theatre Compromise Emphasis Gross

Author:Enid Bagnold

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

Emphasis Motto My Motto

Author:Janice Dickinson

“In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom”

Long Stories Rights Achievement Possession Quests Emphasis Martyrdom

Book:A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

Source: A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

“Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.”

Used Ultimate Separation Clarity Layers Emphasis Orchestra Precision

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“The Bible's emphasis is on the good treatment of animals, and not just the forbidding of cruel treatment.”

Animal Treatment Animal Rights Emphasis Treatment Of Animals

Author:Billy Graham

“High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure;' in loving these, in displaying to the utmost of the painter's power such loveliness as is in them, and directing the thoughts of others to them by winning art, or gentle emphasis.”

Art Winning Pure Seeking Lovely Painter Gentle Improving Emphasis Loveliness High Art

Book:Modern Painters: (pt.4) Modern painters of many things

Source: Modern Painters: (pt.4) Modern painters of many things

“What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligence. The price of zipping among lots of bits of information is a loss of depth in our thinking.”

Thinking Doe Might Bits Loss Information Depth Emphasis Contemplative Utilitarian

Author:Nicholas G. Carr

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