Models Quotes

• The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work-that is, correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area.

  John von Neumann

  Science, Trying, Mathematics

  John Von Neumann, F. Bródy, Tibor Vámos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.628, World Scientific

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• Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were role models. They weren't celebrities, or even particularly accomplished. But they had some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.

  Donn Moomaw

  People, Role Models, Important

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• Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Jesus, Role Models, Example

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• My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Careers, Wife, Lovely

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• My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.

  Henri Matisse

  Figures, Theme, Extras

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• We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Order, Perfect, Events

  "Always expect the unexpected". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.wired.com. April 1, 2007.

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• Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

  Bill Bradley

  Motivational, Success, Sports

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• What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

  Princess Diana

  Family, Boys, Daddy

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• I never thought a role model should be negative.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Role Models, Negative

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• I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.

  Clay Aiken

  Responsibility, America, Role Models

  Reuters, February 22, 2004.

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• Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

  George E. P. Box

  Science, Errors, Remember

  George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper (2007). “Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses”, p.63, John Wiley & Sons

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• Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

  Robert Bresson

  Eye, Two, Body

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.19, New York Review of Books

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• Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Beautiful, Girl, Fashion

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• The difference between the girls today and models of the past is that we are not only interested in fashion: we are going in so many different directions at once. We work harder -- at night and on weekends. On the modeling profession

  Claudia Schiffer

  Girl, Fashion, Hard Work

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• I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an intelligent model.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Intelligent, Demand, Painting

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• If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

  Lucian Freud

  Taken, Quality, Painter

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams.

  Oskar Kokoschka

  Dream, Memories, Moving

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• There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa.

  Carol Alt

  Running, Alaska, Ends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Sports, Children

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• The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

  Dave Barry

  Fashion, Humorous, Failure

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.166, Ballantine Books

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• Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

  Justin Bieber

  Business, Cocky, People

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• We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.

  Alain de Botton

  Beautiful, Religious, Thinking

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• Some people start modeling because they want to be models and they want the parties and the recognition, and then there are people like me. I come from a simple family, and for me getting into modeling was a chance to make money and create a business.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Money, Party, Simple

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• Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

  Epictetus

  Character, Role Models, Follow Your Heart

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• The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!

  Dante Hall

  Teacher, Real, Athlete

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