“We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human behavior comes into play, we don't have a very good model for that at all.” WorldHumansPlaySpiritualAbilityBehaviorComputerModelsVery GoodHuman BehaviorFidelitySimulateHigh Fidelity Author:Buzz Aldrin
“Taking the strong believing women as role models for both men and women, clearly indicates that the Quran acknowledges the woman's ability to be a strong person who can overcome any innate weakens in her.” MenBelievePersonsStrongAbilityRolesModelsMen And WomenOvercomingAcknowledgeRole ModelsInnateQuranStrong Person Author:Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
“I like the way dreams present themselves as words and images that are trying to get your attention using your model-making brain's ability to make up stories.” WayTryingStoriesDreamAbilityAttentionBrainModels Author:Amy Hardie
“The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.” MayProblemCertainSpeakEasyDifficultAbilityLevelsEconomicMastersModelsRelationIncludingIntellectMathematicalDevicesMasteryRequirementsCompetenceIncompetentScreeningAbility To Speak Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“I think ultimately Obama's ability to rebuild America's image in the world will depend less on his personal good will and more his ability to rebuild an American economic model that seems stable and humane and dynamic.” ThinkingWorldSeemsAmericaAbilityEconomicDependsModelsStableHumaneGood WillEconomic Models Author:Peter Beinart
“When you look at Steven Meisel's pictures and you see girls rolling around in mud or cars are blowing up? It takes a tremendous amount of courage to be able to do that. I think you have to be malleable, and that's what makes a truly great model. It's not the perfect lip or the perfect face, it's your own ability to take on a character and that's, I think, something there's a misconception about.” ThinkingLooksCharacterAbleFacesGirlAbilityPerfectCarAmountModelsLipsRollingMudMisconceptionBlowing UpPerfect FaceSteven Meisel Author:Michael Flutie
“It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him. ... The model will serve equally for a Rembrandt drawing or for anybody's magazine cover. A genius is one who can see. The others can often 'draw' remarkably well. ... Those who get their technique first, expecting sight to come to them later, get a technique of a very ready-made order.” FirstsWellsArtMadeWholeArtistValuesOrderAbilityReadyGeniusModelsDrawsSightHarderTechniqueDrawingMagazinesExpectingAbility To SeeMagazine Covers Author:Robert Henri
“Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.” SimpleAbilityModelsScientistMarkMediocritySignaturesGreat Scientist Author:George E. P. Box
“Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price.” IdeasFacesChallengesAbilityQualityHonestProductsFitCreatingModelsCustomersAssessmentBusiness ModelsHonest With YourselfBrutally Honest Author:Mark Cuban
“The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.” WayNeedsPersonsStillsAbilityModelsGuidesSingle PersonGuide Me Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?” WorldArtBookSchoolAbilityTaughtModelsDancingArt SchoolBook CoversTap Dancing Author:Quentin Crisp
“It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.” ThinkingPlayMightForceSportsLossAbilityDealsTakenVictoryModelsFairsScalesBehaveStrategicBrutesBrute ForceStrategic Thinking Author:Will Self
“I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words, that the ideal is your ability to manipulate your own common sense to accept something your intellect rejects. It's the same model of intellectual submission that dictatorships have used throughout time, the concept of a higher reasoning without any obligation to discharge the burden of proof.” EnoughProblemUsedHeavenAbilityCommonAcceptingHigherIntellectualModelsConceptsIdealsBurdenIntellectProofObligationCommon SenseReasoningRejectsDictatorshipTicketsSubmissionManipulateDischargeBurden Of Proof Author:Jo Nesbo