Models Quotes - Page 40

• One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

  Lance Loud

  Gay, Role Models, Roles

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• We make to ourselves pictures of facts. The picture is a model of reality

  Wright Morris

  Reality, Facts

  Wright Morris (1975). “About fiction: reverent reflections on the nature of fiction with irreverent observations on writers, readers & other abuses”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

  George Saintsbury

  Artist, Giving, Transition

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.209, tredition

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• The current business model for language education is the student pays — in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem with this business model is that 95 percent of the world’s population doesn’t have $500.

  Luis von Ahn

  Pay, Population, World

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• Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by.

  Clayton Christensen

  Past, Leader, Risk

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• If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of novelty aimed at promoting dissatisfaction with last year's model. The system attempts to remake people to fit its own presuppositions. If people's wants are not naturally insatiable we must make them so, in order to keep the system going.

  Herman E. Daly

  Order, Years, People

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• What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the person using the device has a good conceptual model of how it operates.

  Donald A. Norman

  Simple, Numbers, Devices

  Donald A. Norman (2010). “Living with Complexity”, p.40, MIT Press

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• I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Believe, Thinking, Growth

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• The only model to follow is pure Islam.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Islam, Pure

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• We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

  Charles Kettering

  People, World

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• If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

  Tim Ferriss

  Opposites, What If, Defining

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• So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Country, Giving, Democracy

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• It is expected that there will be discrepancies between models and observations. However, why these arise and what one should conclude from them are interesting and more subtle than most people realize. Indeed, such discrepancies are the classic way we learn something new.

  Gavin Schmidt

  Discrepancies Between, People, Interesting

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• To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, People, Giving

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• You don't need an alarm clock when you sleep with 20 models a night, one of those broads'll figure out that they better make breakfast in bed or I'll kill all of them.

  Zach Braff

  Sleep, Night, Bed

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• I'm 5 feet 7 but my legs weren't long enough to be a big-time model. From the knees up, everything is long but from ankle to knee, if I was in proportion, I'd be 5 feet 9.

  Grace Slick

  Feet, Long, Ankles

  "'The Bus May Be Different but It's the Same Trip': Psychedelia: Singer Grace Slick comments on her life and a new, three-CD box from RCA Records, 'Jefferson Airplane Loves You'". Interview with Mary Campbell, articles.latimes.com. January 1, 1993.

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• So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging , then I would be able to say, yes, Linux fundamentally supports that model.

  Linus Torvalds

  Support, Would Be, Able

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• But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Nice, Hbo, People

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• I became a model to see the world, to make enough money to travel and experience other cultures.

  Lauren Hutton

  Other Cultures, World, Enough

  "Lauren Hutton: The Wild One". Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 13, 2011.

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• I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.

  Lauren Hutton

  Firsts

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• I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

  Lauren Hutton

  Christian, House, Dior

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• Several elements of the ADD mind favor creativity....As mentioned earlier, the term 'attention deficit' is a misnomer. It is a matter of attention inconsistency. While it is true that the ADD mind wanders when not engaged, it is also the case that the ADD mind fastens on to its subject fiercely when it is engaged. A child with ADD may sit for hours meticulously putting together a model airplane.

  Edward Hallowell

  Children, Airplane, Creativity

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• Abraham Lincoln, in order to maintain the unity of the United Statesresorted to the use of force.so, I think Abraham Lincoln, president, is a model, is an example.

  Zhu Rongji

  Thinking, Order, Unity

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• Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with everyday observation.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Economic Models, Logic, Periods

  Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.

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• When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Europe, Diversity, Live For Today

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