“I'm very particular who I work with. I'm not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I'm interested in a model who I can take a portrait of.” LooksI CanParticularModelsNot InterestedPortraitsGenericPortraying Author:Tim Walker
“To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of adoration is called, 'drawing from life.” HumansChildrenHandsHuman BeingsConditionsParticularModelsDrawingHuman ConditionAdorationOld Woman Author:Frederick Franck
“Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.” MilitaryBuildingParticularModelsHobbies Author:Akira Toriyama
“A bank needs models to measure risk. The problem, however, is that any one bank can measure its risk, but it also has to know what the risk taken by other banks in the system happens to be at any particular moment.” KnowsNeedsMomentsProblemHappensTakenRiskParticularModelsScholes Author:Myron Scholes
“So my advice to startups in this particular category is if you’re going to put your product in beta - put your business model in beta with it. Far too often we are too product focused and not business-model focused. That’s one thing I definitely would have done differently with JotSpot.” IfsDoneOne ThingAdviceParticularProductsModelsFocusedCategoriesBusiness ModelsBeta Author:Joe Kraus
“Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a successful style, in order to be published. I've known people who felt they had to model their book on existing blockbusters, or write in a genre that's supposed to be "hot right now" in order to get agents and publishers interested. But if you're writing in a genre you don't like, or modeling yourself on a book you don't respect, it'll show through. You're your first, most important reader, so write the book that reader really wants to read.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsWritingFirstsKindImportantBookShowsOrderFeltKnownSuccessfulStyleParticularReaderRight NowModelsHotWhat You WantAgentsSupposed To BeGenrePublishersModelingBlockbuster Author:Cassandra Clare
“Poor Hollywood! These things happen all over the world but what a great backdrop to have Hollywood in our movie. No, but I know people who divorce a lot....and have really nice houses. But I didn't model the character on anyone in particular. And if I did, I would never tell the name.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldCharacterHappensHouseNamesPoorNiceParticularModelsHollywoodDivorceThings HappenReally NiceBackdropNice House Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones
“One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to confine the stories you can tell about characters to tropes of bone-headed action and old models of psychological realism. And as readers, too, we have been conditioned to understand characters as - and forgive me for saying it out loud - what the market says they should be. Namely, safe, clean, proper.” ShouldHas BeensCharacterStoriesSeemsActionParticularReaderSafeModelsTraditionForgivingCleanWesternBonesPsychologicalNarrativeLoudConventionsRealismBugsForgive MeTropes Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“Henceforth, whilst there are a great many theories and models proposed as to how, or why, magic works (based on subtle energies, animal magnetism, psychological concepts, quantum theory, mathematics or the so-called anthropomorphic principle) it is not a case that one of them is more 'true' than others, but a case of which theory or model you choose to believe in, or which theory you find most attractive. Indeed, from a Chaos Magic perspective, you can selectively believe that a particular theory or model of magical action is true only for the duration of a particular ritual or phase of work.” BelieveActionEnergyAnimalPrinciplesCasesMagicParticularTheoryPerspectiveModelsConceptsMathematicsChaosPsychologicalAttractiveGreat MenSubtleRitualYou ChooseQuantumPhasesDurationQuantum TheoryMagnetismAnimal Magnetism Author:Phil Hine
“I think that rather than talking about particular models, of which there could be a huge number, we should talk about basic principles of democracy. After all, even within the West, there is no single standard and single model.” ThinkingShouldNumbersTalkingPrinciplesDemocracyParticularHugeModelsStandardsWestBasic PrinciplesHuge Numbers Author:Vladimir Putin
“I have always had to write songs. As a lifestyle and as a business model, it's pretty difficult. Largely at this point I'm so deep in. I have a lot of skills in this particular world, but it just feels compulsive.” WorldFeelsWritingSongDifficultParticularSkillsModelsLifestyleBusiness Models Author:Doug Walters
“As a businessman, Donald Trump has been associated with some of the worst excesses of a particular style of value-extracting and asset stripping capitalism: set up businesses, let them fail, avoid paying suppliers, use bankruptcy laws to avoid taxes for decades, then set up another business somewhere else. It is this model that is the cause of many problems we see today.” Has BeensUseProblemTodayLawValuesCausesFailingWorstStyleParticularTrumpTaxesModelsCapitalismDecadesAssetsExcessBusinessmanSomewhere ElseBankruptcyStrippingSuppliers Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“All countries are particular and no models are perfect.” CountryPerfectParticularModels Author:Mary Robinson
“I got good grades but no particular comment stands out in my memory, I'm afraid. I was one of those annoying and rather boring model pupils.” MemoriesParticularModelsBoringGradesCommentAnnoyingStanding OutPupilsGood Grades Author:Stephen Curry
“There is a democratic deficit. In Latin America in particular there is real concern that democratic governments are not delivering and that is leading to experimenting with different models that are much less democratic. But even in Western Europe the deficit is a problem.” DifferentRealProblemGovernmentAmericaParticularModelsEuropeConcernDemocraticWesternLatinDeficitLatin AmericaDeliveringWestern EuropeDemocratic Government Author:Mary Robinson
“The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.” PeopleRunningParticularModelsStructureAgendasBusiness Models Author:Joss Whedon