“There were a lot of contradictions between Marcello's[ Mastroianni] public persona and who he was in private. The fact that Italy chose to incarnate him as a model of beauty stupefied him.” FactsModelsContradictionPersona Author:Giovanna Cau
“Intuition, if you are fashion designer is really the key to everything. I just really have a feeling it's the right moment in time to create a new business model. Obviously I have facts and figures that could back that up. It isn't a gamble; it's a calculated risk.” IfsMomentsFactsFeelingsRiskFashionFiguresKeysModelsIntuitionDesignerGambleMoments In TimeFashion DesignerBusiness ModelsRight MomentNew BusinessCalculated Risk Author:Monita Rajpal
“I don't look back, I just go forward. I'm just proud of the fact that my parents were immigrants and we had nearly nothing, and all of the sudden, with the help of a lot of people and my parents as a model, I amounted to something.” PeopleLooksFactsHelpingParentProudModelsImmigrants Author:Frank Oz
“Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.” MatterFactsModelsInnovativeInventingSerendipityBusiness Models Author:Gary Hamel
“. . . the fact that [English] has shed most of the old grammatical forms which time has rendered useless and scarcely intelligible, has made English a model, pointing the way which must be followed in building the Interlanguage. . .” WayMadeFactsFormBuildingModelsUselessShedPointing Author:Sylvia Pankhurst
“She [Hillary Clinton] is the epitome of the progressive - the secular progressive movement. And she counts on the fact that people are uninformed, the Alinsky Model, taking advantage of useful idiots.” PeopleFactsMovementModelsAdvantageClintonIdiotProgressiveSecularEpitomeTaking AdvantageUninformedProgressive Movement Author:Benjamin Carson
“What is the value of having millions of people in Iraq not having a repressive regime? What is the value of having the Iraqi regime not shooting at UK and US aircraft almost every day? What is the value of the Iraqis having a free press? What is the value of the foreign minister of Iraq going to Paris, calling for an end of the Gadhafi regime and citing Iraq as a model, as an example, that in fact a freer political system can exist in that part of the world?” PeopleWorldEndsFactsPoliticalValuesMillionsExampleCallingModelsPressesIraqShootingMinistersParisRegimesPolitical SystemsAircraftFree PressCiting Author:Donald Rumsfeld
“Pick something you are interested in, and keep applying a business model that includes Internet Marketing to make it global, get thousands of leads and clients for free and make more sales. Remember you are building a business, as people make the internet appear to be push-button money, when in fact it is a medium to market your message!” PeopleFactsRememberBuildingInternetMessagesModelsPicksMarketingMediumsClientsButtonsRemember YouRemembers YouBusiness ModelsInternet MarketingBuilding A Business Author:Tracy Repchuk
“Strippers should be role-models for little girls. If only for the fact that they wax their assholes.” IfsShouldLittlesFactsHumorFunnyGirlRolesModelsRole Models Author:Sarah Silverman
“But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.” TryingMatterFactsCertainPathEvolutionWalkingComputerModelsBasesStructureChemicalsOrganisms Author:Kevin Kelly
“I think I'm the future of hip-hop. You know, I feel bad for saying that. That's unfortunate, but that's a fact. You can't compare my model of hip-hop with what I'm about to come out with versus anything in the game.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsFactsGamesModelsHip HopHipsCompareHopsUnfortunateVersus Author:Spencer Pratt
“Thus even supposedly unadulterated facts of observation already are interfused with all sorts of conceptual pictures, model concepts, theories or whatever expression you choose. The choice is not whether to remain in the field of data or to theorize; the choice is only between models that are more or less abstract, generalized, near or more remote from direct observation, more or less suitable to represent observed phenomena.” FactsChoicesFieldsExpressionTheoryModelsConceptsDirectObservationDataAbstractYou ChooseSuitable Author:Ludwig von Bertalanffy
“My ignorance would require a volume to itself. Between its covers would be preserved a record of the spurious model of all creation I had in my head, a prelapsarian construct, uncorrupted by the facts.” FactsWould BeRecordsCreationIgnoranceModelsVolumeConstructs Author:Peter Blegvad
“No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.” IfsFactsModelsBoundsDataMislead Author:James D. Watson
“I don't like being called a denier because deniers don't believe in facts. There are no facts linking the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide with imminent catastrophic global warming there are only predictions based on complex computer models.” BelieveFactsComputerModelsComplexesDon't BelieveGlobal WarmingConcentrationCarbonPredictionsCarbon Dioxide Author:David Bellamy
“The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse is the fact we are still using the male model of sexual response for women.” WantFirstsStillsFactsMightBirthModelsResponseMalesEnvyEstablishmentWombUterus Author:Betty Dodson
“I want to say something, and it may sound harsh, not to you, but to the American people. In a sense, in my view, the business model of Wall Street is fraud. It's fraud. I believe that corruption is rampant, and the fact that major bank after major bank has reached multi billion dollar settlements with the United States government when we have a weak regulator system tells me that not only did we have to bail them out once, if we don't start breaking them up, we're going to have to bail them out again, and I do not want to see that happen.” PeopleIfsWantBelieveMayStatesFactsGovernmentHappensI BelieveSoundUnitedViewsUnited StatesStreetsWallMajorsModelsWeakDollarsCorruptionBillionsFraudHarshSettlementState GovernmentBusiness ModelsBailUnited States GovernmentRegulators Author:Bernie Sanders
“I love the fact that they [girls ]are into Superman and Green Lantern and Batman and everything, and they really do have all those toys as well, but I don't want all their role models to be men.” MenWantWellsFactsGirlRolesModelsGreenRole ModelsToysBe A ManLanternsGreen Lantern Author:Mark Millar
“In my book, the Arab Awakening, I talk about the fact that we have to move from this. All the contemporary ideologies of political Islam have been based on the nation state. The nation state is very problematic but I'm not sure if we have an alternative political model.” IfsHas BeensBookStatesFactsMovingPoliticalNationsModelsIslamAwakeningContemporaryIdeologyAlternativesNot Sure Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people to courageous action the way that powerful stories can.” PeopleWayHeartFactsStoriesActionMovingTurnsPowerfulBrainEconomicModelsDataCourageousEconomic Models Author:Annie Leonard
“While it may seem a little mundane, the material realities of realizing the painting actually have a lot to do with how you should read the painting. For example, we assume that what the model is wearing is what we found him in in the streets. No; in fact, a lot of what happens is that in Photoshop certain aspects are being heightened or diminished. There is no actual material truth in these paintings.” ShouldMayLittlesFactsRealitySeemsHappensCertainFoundRealizingStreetsExamplePaintingMaterialsModelsAspectAssumingMundanePhotoshop Author:Kehinde Wiley
“It is an interesting fact about model selection that the evidence at hand can indicate that a model known to be false will be more predictively accurate than a model known to be true. This opens the door to a kind of instrumentalism.” KindFactsHandsInterestingKnownDoorsModelsEvidenceBeing TrueAccurateSelectionInteresting Fact Author:Elliott Sober
“That might be the old model: to get a fixed fee. You have to start to think about other models and how they can generate interest - what it can do for a brand in the future - and about the fact that revenue can also be generated in many other ways... Just look at the one and a half million people at the free Rolling Stones concert in Cuba. And Cuba is not Central Park! So just use your imagination as to what kind of revenue can be made.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksKindMadeFactsUseMightInterestCan DoImaginationHalfMillionsModelsStonesBrandsFixedParksConcertsRollingRevenueCubaFeesRolling StonesCentral Park Author:Martin Sorrell
“Historically, many of the great names in alpine climbing seemed to have just gone climbing as training. In fact, the model alpinist has often portrayed himself in literature as a half-crazed nonconformist, living life on the edge every moment he's sober enough to climb. It is true that amazing feats of skill and daring have been accomplished using this rather random approach. For some climbers that "life on the edge" approach may be the only way they can accomplish these feats, but there are far better methods to prepare for the challenges of alpine climbing.” WayMayHas BeensEnoughMomentsFactsLiteratureNamesChallengesHalfGoneSkillsApproachModelsTrainingMethodEdgesAccomplishLive LifeAccomplishedClimbsClimbingDaringSoberFeatsClimbersNonconformistAlpineLife On The Edge Author:Steve House
“Questions like, "Is my suit OK?", or "Is my job performance satisfactory?", are impossible to think about in the absence of a suitable frame of reference. For an interview suit to serve its purpose, it must make you look good relative to other candidates for the job you want. For your job performance to be satisfactory, it must compare favorably with the performance of others who want the same promotion you do. As Charles Darwin saw clearly, much of life is graded on the curve, and conventional economic models completely ignore that fact.” ThinkingWantLooksFactsJobsLife IsPurposeSawsImpossibleEconomicModelsPerformancesAbsenceSuitsCompareCandidatesInterviewsRelativeConventionalCurvesPromotionSuitableFrame Of ReferenceEconomic Models Author:Robert H. Frank
“I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my own company with the help of my two friends. I became a success story, and people relate to that.” PeopleFeelsTwoFactsHelpingStoriesMy OwnCompanyRolesDesignModelsRelateRole ModelsSuccess StoriesTwo Friends Author:Christian Louboutin
“What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.” NeedsYearsWellsFactsLastsBusinessDemandModelsCustomersEducateLast YearNeed YouCheaper Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay
“The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.” YearsFactsHandsAbleClearModelsPhysicsFortyInterpretationQuantumMetaphysicsMetaphysicalPhysicistQuantum Physics Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.” PeopleWantGivingHumansStillsPlayFactsJoyPurposeBornRolesDogModelsConcernGive MeMy FavoriteDinnerDevotionAbandonRole ModelsHuntsHerdsCanineJolly Author:Oprah Winfrey
“Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.” StatesFactsModelsPoliceCourtRewardsPenaltiesScientology Author:William S. Burroughs