“This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.” FirstsHumansGivenDifficultEconomicDevelopmentModelsFirst TimeTasksClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingHuman HistoryEconomic DevelopmentDifficult Tasks Author:Christiana Figueres
“Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.” StatesGivenCommunityPerfectHeroNeededModelsClaimsDareTraumaScalesGenocideAshesReconciliationRisenRwanda Author:Wole Soyinka
“Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.” BelieveHas BeensMadeGivenNationsWishChanceMillionsModelsWinePatternsChiefsAssimilation Book:An Anthropologist at Work Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“We are missing the truth. We live in a society that lies and fosters and sells dishonesty at a discount. Remember the line, 'America spells cheese K-R-A-F-T? That does not spell cheese! We tell our kids that as long as it looks good on the outside, don't worry about the inside. Or work hard and you'll be rewarded in the end. That's not necessarily true anymore. We don't tell the truth about certain things. Young people see our hypocrisy. We haven't given them a model to follow.” PeopleLooksLongDoeEndsHardKidsAmericaRememberYoungLyingCertainGivenLinesWorryMissingHavensHard WorkModelsSellsHypocrisyTelling The TruthSpellsCheeseDishonestyDiscounts Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“I don't think that we have to look like the models in the magazines because they are 19 year olds and they have been photo shopped extensively, not but given what I, we have as the raw material, take care of it.” ThinkingYearsLooksHas BeensCareGivenMaterialsModelsTake CareMagazinesRaw Materials Author:Isabel Allende
“It's really neat when you become a role model. It's also a lot of responsibility. But if you see it as a platform where you can pour into others for Jesus with love, that's where I want to be. Becoming known or noticed in my sport isn't what drives me to work hard and want to be the best I can be. It's Jesus. That's why I play. I play to glorify Him. I worship Him with the gifts I've been given.” IfsWantI CanHardPlayJesusGivenSportsResponsibilityKnownRolesHard WorkBecomingWorshipModelsBeing The BestRole ModelsPlatformsNeatGlorify Author:Tobin Heath
“Meadowlark Lemon's book Trust Your Next Shot is written by a remarkable person. I have had the pleasure of knowing Meadowlark for quite some time. He has given back to his community quite generously in addition to serving as an outstanding role model for young people. Meadowlark's career has allowed him to touch people's lives everywhere and I am so proud to be his friend. God has certainly touched his life.” PeoplePersonsBookYoungNextGivenCommunityPleasureCareersRolesKnowingWrittenProudModelsShotsTouchedRemarkableServingRole ModelsOutstandingLemonsMeadowlarks Author:Lenny Wilkens
“A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.” DoneOpportunityGivenWishLuckyModelsCameron Author:Jennifer Lopez
“What many people don't see is that there are abundant examples of phenomenal opacity: It is one of the most interesting features of the human conscious model of reality that, first, it can contain elements that are not experienced as mind-independent, as unequivocally real, as immediately given, and second, that there is a "gradient of realness" in which one and the same content can be experienced transparently or in an opaque fashion.” PeopleMindFirstsHumansRealRealityGivenInterestingFashionExampleElementsModelsConsciousIndependentFeaturesMost InterestingPhenomenalOpaqueRealness Author:Thomas Metzinger
“My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.” IfsHas BeensTogetherMotherGivenParentForeverBrotherModelsDiedVery GoodBarsMy BrotherHappy MarriageMarriage And FamilyTogether Forever Author:Andrew Solomon
“Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.” DifferentGivenFeltReaderNewsModelsAccessNewspapersOnlineSuspectsEntitlementHindsightEntitlement Programs Author:Malcolm Turnbull
“If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.” IfsThinkingWantShouldPersonsLightGivenChanceRolesInfluencePositiveModelsRole ModelsGiven A ChanceBeing A Role ModelPositive Role Model Author:Tiger Woods
“Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we domesticate the wild mallard. Children should become the role-models for us, their parents, for they are coated with the spirit from which they came- out of the ether, clean, innocent, brimming with the delight of life, aware of the beauty of the simplest thing; a snail, a bud.” ShouldChildrenPersonsSoulSpiritGivenParentRolesModelsWingsCleanDelightFlyingInnocentRole ModelsEntitledSimplestBudClipSnailMallards Book:Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century