#emphasis

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

#comic #comic books #emphasis #family #games

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. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#benefit #certainly #chapter #congenial #cooperation

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

#built-in #component #emphasis #factor #gravity

I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer. ↗

— Fred Savage

#angelou #best #creative #creative writing #emphasis

Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social workers to focus on children, not bureaucracy. ↗

— Andy Sawford

#children #civilians #emphasis #experienced #focus

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

#emotional #emphasis #health #i #material

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true. ↗

— Emma Donoghue

#definitely #emphasis #exaggeration #truth #uncertainty

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. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#benefit #care #disease #early #emphasis

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

#changing #despite #emphasis #even #evil

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

#enforcement #i #law #little #more