Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us…

No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.

— Aldo Leopold

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together…

— Stephen Covey

A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the…

— David Nicholls

Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A…

— Jacques Ellul

All the world’s major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness, can and do promote inner values. But the reality…

— Dalai Lama

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

— Billy Graham

The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography...The reason is that photography is only…

— David Hurn

My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.

— Mike Berenstain

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Begbie offers an additional valuable contribution by rejecting the traditional emphasis on beauty, in its Platonic sense, and instead suggesting that beauty be reconceived…

— John Walford

We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger,…

— Louis L'Amour

The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a…

— L. Ron Hubbard

I sometimes find that my family's emphasis on stories, characters, and art that appeals directly to children rather than over their heads to adults…

— Mike Berenstain

I put a lot of emphasis on how to treat people. The reason for this is simple. The real success of our personal lives…

— Mary Kay Ash

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…

— Charles Francis Richter