Emphasis Quotes

• From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Justice
  • Poor
  • Lawyer

• I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis. One example would be the letter writing, or the reading of the letters. If you remember from the book, they find the letters and then in the most undramatic way they take them downstairs, they get approval, they sit at a table during the day with their own author, across from each other.

  

  Neil LaBute
  • Dramatic
  • Emphasis

• The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Race
  • Irish
  • Emphasis

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

  

  Huston Smith
  • Nature
  • Emphasis

• 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 undermines students' interest in learning, makes failure seem overwhelming, leads students to avoid challenging themselves, reduces the quality of learning, and invites students to think about how smart they are instead of how hard they tried.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Learning
  • Research
  • Students

• He never once has made any emphasis on his last home game or his last game. It's just been status quo.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Home
  • Game
  • Status Quo

• We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives — a love of science, engineering, and math, so that they will want to take advanced scientific courses and thereby help meet the needs of our times.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Love
  • Help
  • Science

• My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Games
  • Comic
  • Emphasis

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