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Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it. -- Epictetus
Embody the three harmonies: within; with others; and with nature. -- Robert Gilman
Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. -- William Butler Yeats
I embody the renewed monarchy for a new time. -- King Felipe VI
I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration. -- Herbert Read
America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago. -- Steve Buyer
Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on. -- Lucy Liu
Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision. -- Bill Drayton
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. -- Jane Addams
The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence. -- Robert Rainy
How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness. -- Alice James
The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract. -- Eugene H. Peterson
Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission. -- Richard Attias
Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice. -- Gary Oldman
We live in a world where it's difficult to be a woman who is strong and confident, so I like to surround myself with friends that embody that same principle and idea. -- Mandy Moore
You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company's culture and propel you forward. -- Kathryn Minshew
We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology. -- Daniel H. Wilson
The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength. -- Ai Weiwei
The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. -- Jon Meacham
Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance. -- Max Bill
Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship. -- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
A bit, the smallest unit of information, the fundamental particle of information theory, is a choice, yes or no, on or off. It's a choice that you can embody in electrical circuits, and it is thanks to that that we have all this ubiquitous computing. -- James Gleick
Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books. -- Jon Meacham
There's, you know, there's an ideology behind Ultron that makes him more unique that just a bad guy. He doesn't wanna just kill the Avengers. He doesn't wanna just destroy the world. He has these monologues and these beautiful speeches that kind of embody a certain mentality about what's wrong with humanity. -- Chris Evans
I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me. -- Salma Hayek
Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something. -- Alan Rickman
A film has a beginning, middle, and an end. There is a certain amount of time that you have to embody these people. You know the entire story arch. But on TV, you have to let your guard down. You don't know how long the show is going to last. There is this excitement that comes with developing a character long-term. -- DJ Qualls
I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become. -- Al Pacino
An actor has to embody a role. -- Taylor Hackford
I embody EVERYTHING from the Godly to the party... -- Common
Comics definitely embody the importance of practicing free speech. -- Ted Alexandro
The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
My wound existed before me; I was born to embody it. -- JoÃ« Bousquet
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced. -- Elbert Hubbard
I value those artists who embody the expression of their life. -- Wassily Kandinsky
All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand. -- Emmet Gowin
The business of the church is to tell and embody a story -- Lesslie Newbigin
The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality". -- Joyce Carol Oates
To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them. -- Clemence Poesy
Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation. -- William Fleming
We must, by God's grace, embody the vision. If not, we are duplicitous. -- Derwin L. Gray
The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents. -- Joe Moore
The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it. -- Paul Greengrass
My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing. -- Charlize Theron
What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings. -- Paul Haggis
Male philosophers coin phrases -- 'virtue is its own reward' -- and female workers embody them. -- Mary Jo Weaver
For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know. -- Chang-Rae Lee
The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself. -- Richard Davidson
To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise. -- Benazir Bhutto
Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on." -- Lucy Liu
Two there shall be; no more, no less. One to embody the dark side, the other to crave it. -- Drew Karpyshyn
Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it. -- Melanie Klein
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Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation. -- Jacques Barzun
Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever. -- Cory Booker
I'm not trying to emulate or imitate. But I do believe that I embody that spirit from Robert Johnson on up. -- CeeLo Green
Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns. -- Tom Johnson
I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character. -- Mia Wasikowska
As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes. -- Rebecca Stead
I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art. -- Sean Scully
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry? -- George Iles
We can not imitate great souls. However to study, analyse and imbibe the principles they teach and embody, is the path of progress. -- Radhanath Swami
I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness. -- Jane Siberry
The women I cast have to embody all sorts of contradictions... I have to find the right woman to speak to other women. -- Allison Anders
I am passionate about learning to most fully embody the spark that is the source of life, the hidden glory of the Creator. -- Rod Stryker
I'm just a regular guy. I want people to realize that I embody the true American dream. I work hard. I went to school. -- Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea. -- Anne Michaels
Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody. -- William Bennett
The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law. -- W.S. Gilbert
I'm really maturing into soul music. It's not my attempt or karaoke try. I feel like I really embody the music now that I am 36. -- Maxwell
There are people who have great skills, who do great things, but don't embody the whole animal that is the fight game like I do. -- Conor McGregor
In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted. -- Carl Jung
I've always had a great interest in sports that embody the values of commitment, hard work and teamwork - all values I strongly believe in. -- Giorgio Armani
Whole Foods Market tries to embody all of the principles of conscious capitalism all the time, but like any person or company, we sometimes fall short. -- John Mackey
Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance. -- Claude Bernard
A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the mental history of mankind. -- Lewis Henry Morgan
I would love to embody the attitude of Iggy Pop or Keith Richards: a ballsy mentality. Stylistically, I love Vivienne Westwood - those capes! I'm obsessed. -- Kesha
All you have to do is unite, mentally and emotionally with the good you wish to embody. The creative powers of your subconscious will respond accordingly. -- Joseph Murphy
With acting, I get to escape into this character and embody it. With music it's like, "Hey guys, this is my diary, here's all my feelings." -- Taryn Manning
For me, the most absorbing films are those that address big questions and real ideas but embody them in small examples that we can appreciate and comprehend. -- Lisa Randall
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If you want to explore a political idea in the highest possible way, you embody it in the personal, because that's something that no one can deny. -- George Saunders
What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places. -- Marianne Wiggins
If the market does indeed embody the sum of all human wishes, then the secret ones are just as important as the ones that are openly displayed, -- Eric Schlosser
How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness. -- Alice James
You have an awareness of your body and how to use it and I think that if you can embody a character physically it's another really useful tool. -- Mia Wasikowska
My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for. -- Edie Campbell
To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions... -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. -- June Jordan
Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words. -- Oprah Winfrey
The best way to understand another person's religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality. -- Thomas Keating
Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp. -- Jackie Earle Haley
The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits. -- Yann Martel
Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT? -- Marshall McLuhan
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We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes. -- John C. Danforth
The stars I have worked with not only look good in my clothes, but they also embody a spirit of dedication and hard work that I relate to and admire. -- Giorgio Armani
Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions. -- Kiki Smith
The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right-these institutions are real and they must be destroyed. -- Andrea Dworkin
When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is no longer a sign of the kingdom. -- Lesslie Newbigin
When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is no longer a sign of the kingdom." -- Lesslie Newbigin
I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly they just use their own personality to embody the character. -- Michel Gondry
The staggering babies embody the deepest truth about deep practice: to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill. -- Daniel Coyle
Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain. -- George Steiner
In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy. -- Jackie Earle Haley
I start with voice, maybe a sentence. That sentence might embody an image, and I go from there. One sentence to the next. Sound drives the work these days - sound before description. -- Paul Lisicky
Why are we sitting? Why are we practicing? Why are we doing anything? It's not so I can be happy. It's so I can embody the dharma in order to benefit other beings. -- Tenzin Palmo
You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company culture and propel you forward. -- Kathryn Minshew
Homeopathy pills are, after all, empty little sugar pills which seem to work, and so they embody [..] how we can be misled into thinking that any intervention is more effective than it really is. -- Ben Goldacre
It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work. -- Ally Sheedy
As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both share an easy, capacious confidence that says he has faith in his readers. -- George Saunders
I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. The misperceptions about what it's all about have gotten into their heads. -- J. Courtney Sullivan
There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody. -- Richard Moe
Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now the possibility for movies to embody that arising new state of consciousness. -- Eckhart Tolle

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