Model Quotes - page 2

I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient. (Steven Soderbergh)
Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image. View quote
Rollo May
I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else. View quote
Britney Spears
At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship. View quote
Lucy Lawless
When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails. View quote
Theodor Adorno
The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market. View quote
Jacques Delors
The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself. View quote
Louise Bourgeois
The truth [is in his paintings]... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look out of the window, then truth for me is the way nature shows itself in its various tones, colours and proportions. That's a truth and has its own correctness. This little slice of nature, and in fact any given piece of nature, represents to me an ongoing challenge, and is a model for my paintings. View quote
Gerhard Richter
The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood. View quote
Paulo Freire
A smart model is a good model. View quote
Tyra Banks
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. (John von Neumann)
The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat. View quote
Norbert Wiener
The world you perceive is drastically simplified model of the real world. View quote
Herbert Simon
Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful. View quote
Steve Jobs
My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people. View quote
Steve Jobs
No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern. View quote
Cesare Pavese
It is for the artist.... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features. View quote
James McNeill Whistler
It's not a model if it's full-size. It's a ice-breaker! View quote
Michael Palin
This world is bullshit. And you shouldn't model your life - wait a second - you shouldn't model your life about what you think that we think is cool and what we're wearing and what we're saying and everything. Go with yourself. Go with yourself. View quote
Fiona Apple
External success has to do with people who may see me as a model, or an example, or a representative. As much as I may dislike or want to reject that responsibility, this is something that comes with public success. It's important to give others a sense of hope that it is possible and you can come from really different places in the world and find your own place in the world that's unique for yourself. (Amy Tan)
The only thing that was sort of Asian [as a role model] was Hello Kitty. I don't want to model myself after Hello Kitty. View quote
Margaret Cho
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done. These models may be fairly sophisticated and recent, as is perhaps the case with 'motive' or 'impulse', but one of the commonest and most primitive types of model is one which is apt to baffle us through its very naturalness and simplicity. View quote
J. L. Austin
Teenagers can be idiotic and stupid, but teenagers also model their behavior from the signals they get from adults. View quote
John Scalzi
If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble. View quote
Robert Sapolsky