I learned that if we embrace what’s happening, we are also embracing what is possible – and a road opens up for God to meet us halfway.
I don’t believe in being a size 0. I don’t believe in starving. Women should totally embrace their curves.
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one’s personal project.
Today, we are fortunate that the historical novel has reached such extraordinary heights of technical mastery. The ability of society to connect with the past holds out the greatest hope for it being able to embrace the future.
There are people who are destined to embrace endless pain and suffering, and there are people who desire to dream. Everybody dreams, of course. But does anybody desperately want to dream more than the people of North Korea?
Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you’re uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you’ll come out stronger.
Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn’t mean I don’t embrace the new, but I don’t forget the past, either.
My mother had abandoned the family, so grandmother raised me. And she was instrumental in that she taught me that the world is a glorious place. She taught me to embrace humanity. And she’d say there’s never an excuse for joy. And to be thankful.
When people embrace character, there’s latzie. It’s the stuffing of a scene that’s not written. It’s not in the stage direction and it’s not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
That is not something I embrace. I think there are real distinctions between the Koch brothers and us.
You have to embrace trends; it’s crazy to think you can live above it. Like digital, like selling online, like social networks – if you fear them, they’re going to eat you alive.
Clearly, some of the reason people embrace alternatives and reject vaccines is that they are angry and mistrustful of government and of pharmaceutical conglomerates. More than that, we pay too much for health care, it’s not good enough, and the system is too complex. We need alternatives.
The NBA has been extraordinary in its use and embrace of social media; they are by far the leader in professional sports.
Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can’t help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.
You’ve got to embrace what you don’t know.
We embrace two-legged beings, and can warm to four-legged beings, too, but for most people, six legs is pushing it. Most don’t need multi-eyed, antennaed face time.
A lot of groups spend their whole cultural and aesthetic identity trying to move away from Africa, which I think is a mistake. One of the reasons I love Cuba and cultures like that is because they’re not trying to move away from their African roots, they’re trying to embrace them. That’s part of the culture.
A lot of the reason I wanted to become an entrepreneur and avoid working for others is that you get to create the world you want to live in and the company you want to work for, and I’ve loved that. It’s a part of entrepreneurship that women should really embrace.
Perhaps it’s the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists – people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change – who stand the best chance of penetrating life’s mysteries.
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.
The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.
To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
Government can run and fund programs, but it can’t love, it can’t show compassion, and it can’t embrace. Our faith is designed to have social implications, not just heavenly ones. The spiritual and the social must be connected.
Being a female athlete, sometimes your clothes don’t fit right if you have a small waist and broad shoulders, or strong hips. And it’s OK to embrace that.
Comedy fans are the best fans. They embrace and support you doing low-budget work and will follow you to the end of the earth!
I think it’s important to show that… you can’t be perfect, and you have to embrace the fact that you’re original, and it’s what makes you interesting.
With our national savings rate well below one-percent, it is imperative that the government embrace innovative and cost-effective means of boosting personal savings.
I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
I’ve always set out to embrace all that I am.
You find a personality whom you think the TV audience will embrace and find a format that is tailor-made for the personality. In the case of Andy Griffith, we moved the personality of a wily country shark – a funny and shrewd guy – into another arena. In this case, he is a lawyer, and it is a dramatic series.
I had to get to the point where I just had to embrace carrying the torch for the traditional girls out there. I love representing the traditional black woman.
I’m very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don’t even like the word ‘feminism’ because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I’m not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don’t want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.
The move towards neoliberalism in Britain was intimately bound up with the embrace of the U.S. as the country to be aped and copied.
For organisations, flexibility is a must to cope with fluctuations in demand and remain competitive, and people must be able to develop adaptable attitudes to quickly embrace evolving business conditions, new business opportunities, and shifting strategies.
New Orleans just embraces people who love music.
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
I’m a devilish kind of person, but I embrace it. I don’t try to fight it. It’s proven very well for me.
We’ve truly transformed Accenture capabilities to help our clients embrace the new, applying innovation and intelligence at the heart of their organizations.
As a person, I have a lot of different sides to me, and I genuinely just embrace them. I don’t think, ‘Oh, I gotta put on my cool face now!’
It’s nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.
CEOs must embrace the role of serving as the public face of the company to their customer community and the marketplace at large.
The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly – indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.
I don’t sing very loud, which some people have given me trouble about, but we all have to figure out what our voices are, embrace that.
I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it’s an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it’s a love story, and it’s funny, and it’s light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
It’s a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It’s not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
Glossier is really for anyone who wants to embrace the present and live in the now. It’s about embracing constant change and who you are at any given moment, and that’s often someone who’s imperfect – and that’s cool.
What is magical and mystifying to me about style is not that by seeing we can believe. It is that eventually, we can believe, because we can see… we can embrace change the more we can make it tangible.
Oh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.
If you’re trying to write something that you don’t understand and embrace at the very core of you, it’s not going to turn out with quite the authenticity and passion it should have.
An actual scientist embraces debate because it sharpens their research.
Maybe the biggest award show of the largest entertainment importer in the world needs an economic incentive to embrace diversity. Indeed, maybe we should boycott the show and pressure advertisers to do the same. Or maybe the Academy should learn the lesson of history and change because it’s the right thing to do.
Journalism isn’t about how smart you are. It’s not about where you’re from. It’s not about who you know or how clever your questions are. And thank God for that. It’s about your ability to embrace change and uncertainty. It’s about being fearless personally and professionally.
