“The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.” MenHas BeensCountrySeemsDifferencesChurchTakenOughtModelsTownsFaultsAncient Author:George Edmund Street
“Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.” HappensChristianJesusNationsDifferencesAcceptingModelsCommittedHeritageObserversChristian Heritage Author:Philip Yancey
“Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?” IfsAsksDifferencesLinesModelsGlassesDrawingImpressionCompareAngleGlances Book:William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing
“In Tar Baby, the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from multiple forms of interaction with the world as a play of difference that cannot be completely comprehended.” WorldPlayFormDesireLiteratureIndividualDifferencesIdentityBabyModelsConceptsImpulseClassicInteractionMultipleKaleidoscope Author:Toni Morrison
“There are times when you simply have to pose your model. The difference is in the kind of posing. It can be honest and dishonest, interesting and as wooden as a cigar store Indian.” KindDifferencesInterestingHonestModelsStoresBeing HonestIndianCigarPosing Author:Roy Stryker
“There are all sorts of institutions in the economic world which depart from the simple price/market model which I worked on in an earlier incarnation and which has been sort of the mainstream of economic theories since Adam Smith and David Ricardo. There are all sorts of contractual relations between firms and individuals which do not conform to the simple price theory - profit-sharing schemes and so forth - and the explanation for these suddenly became clear. We now understand why these emerged and that they are based on differences in information in the economy.” WorldHas BeensIndividualDifferencesSimpleEconomyClearEconomicInformationTheoryModelsRelationInstitutionsProfitFirmExplanationAdamMainstreamSchemesConformIncarnationEconomic TheoryProfit Sharing Author:Kenneth Arrow