“And even with traditional fashion models, where it's their job to be a certain size and a certain proportion, you have to make adjustments once you see your clothes on a real live person. Now imagine doing that with more sizes, more proportions. You really have to play with every piece. So timing is a big part of it. You have to make the time.” PersonsRealPlayBigsJobsCertainPiecesImagineFashionClothesModelsSizeTraditionalProportionTimingAdjustmentFashion Model Author:Christian Siriano
“People's experiences are all different, and you don't know what the person experienced. They know, but you don't, so I think it's important to listen carefully to what a person has to say. And not to force them into any direction at all but simply to model what you've experienced, model it and also be what I call a Listening Presence. If you're really listening, then some of the barriers can dissolve or change.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsPersonsImportantDifferentForceListeningModelsBarriers Author:Pauline Oliveros
“I have never heard of anyone who was a "model person" in all aspects of his or her life, intellectual life or other aspects; nor do I see why anyone should care. We are not engaged in idol worship, after all.” ShouldPersonsCareHeardWorshipIntellectualModelsAspectEngagedIdolsIntellectual LifeIdol Worship Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think Donald Trump thinks of Putin as being a strong person, and I think he thinks of himself as being a very strong person. But I don't think in any way that he thinks of the Putin government as a desirable model.” ThinkingWayPersonsGovernmentStrongTrumpModelsVery StrongDesirablePutinStrong Person Author:Newt Gingrich
“To fix the business, to bring it back to health, you must assimilate enough of the disruptive innovation to modernize the operating model without jettisoning your business model. This typically requires new leaders and definitely requires new (if temporary) rules. The CEO is the only person who can dictate the correct terms in a timely manner and maintain the enterprise's commitment to those terms for the duration of the rehabilitation effort.” IfsPersonsEnoughTermEffortLeaderModelsCommitmentInnovationEnterpriseTemporaryCeoDurationRehabilitationDisruptiveTimelyBusiness ModelsDisruptive Innovation Author:Geoffrey Moore
“As a model, I'm used to having my body scrutinized, and I have a tough skin so I can shake it off. I know I'm the only person that gets to decide how my body should look.” KnowsShouldLooksPersonsI CanBodyUsedModelsToughSkinsShakesTough Skin Author:Ashley Graham
“To view space as, "Well, let's go to Mars now," or "Let's do this now," maybe we should rethink of space as our backyard and have a suite of launch vehicles that can enable any ambition a person has regarding space. It's the same way you can go to buy a car: I want to go offroading, I'll buy this model. I'm a city driver, that's this model. I want to use less fuel, well, that's this model. They're not selling you one car, you have options. So when I think of space, I think of having options.” ThinkingWayWantShouldWellsPersonsUseSpaceViewsCitiesCarAmbitionModelsSellingFuelDriversVehicleMarsBackyards Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“In the future, every human will have a digital model of their body stored in computers. When someone needs a new shoe or a new bra or a new prosthesis or a new brace, s/he'll just fabricate it from the digital model themselves and then the device or article will be delivered to the home without even having to go to a retail store. The shoe, the bra, the brace, it'll be the person's apparel, the person's device, no one else's. It'll be exquisitely comfortable and functional. So this whole notion today where we have sizing to fit across humans is just utterly absurd.” NeedsHumansPersonsWholeHomeBodyTodayFitComfortableComputerModelsNotionShoesStoresAbsurdDigitalDevicesArticlesRetailBrasBracesApparelHuman WillFabricateNew Shoes Author:Hugh Herr
“The two greatest role models in my professional career were Walt Disney and Dr. Deming. Dr. Deming was the Father of Total Quality Management and the person who redefined quality for the entire world.” WorldPersonsTwoFatherQualityCareersRolesModelsManagementRole ModelsDrsWaltProfessional CareerQuality Management Author:Bill Capodagli
“I have so many different role models who have taught me so many different things at so many different points in my life, it doesn't feel like I have one person that I have to live up to.” FeelsPersonsDifferentRolesTaughtModelsDifferent ThingsRole Models Author:Rowan Blanchard
“In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have this illusion that you are following the model of the creator, that you are playing the creator who has to organize that. It is a vice and a sin, and I like to sin. I'm a vicious person.” PersonsSinNovelWorshipModelsIllusionVicesFollowingCreatorSuperiorsCatholicismOrganizeVicious Author:Carmen Boullosa
“I mean there's still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you were an action hero, you were a little bit of a role model like the person.” IfsMeanLittlesPersonsStillsActionBitsRolesAudienceHeroElementsLittle BitModelsRole ModelsAction Heroes Author:Dolph Lundgren
“Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.” YearsPersonsSuccessfulPiecesModelsThirdsPainfulMythEditorsMerchandiseThird Person Author:Jessica Lange
“I'm very shy. I know it's weird for a person who models lingerie and swimsuits, but I don't like to be the center of attention!” KnowsPersonsAttentionModelsShyLingerieCenter Of AttentionSwimsuits Author:Marisa Miller
“I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.” KnowsPersonsRealHelpingModelsScriptsReal LifePainterInstanceEnjoyedHelp MeFrank Author:Al Pacino
“Each person must live their life as a model for others.” LifePersonsWomenMorningInspireInspirational LifeIntegrityModelsInsightfulRole ModelsBlack WomenModelingBlack HistoryEmpowering WomenWomen Empowering WomenAfrican American WomenWomen In HistoryBlack History Month InspirationalBeing A Role ModelBlack Women Inspirational Author:Rosa Parks
“I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.” ThinkingShouldPersonsKidsLife IsOpinionRolesJudgmentModelsShould HaveFinalsSupposed To BeRole ModelsMentorAssessmentMentoring Author:Sean Paul
“So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.” IfsThinkingYearsHeartKindPersonsDreamPainGirlCoursesWishPresidentEmotionTalkingRolesWifeFieldsModelsYears AgoFarmsRole ModelsFarm Girl Author:Tina Turner
“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
“Hey, girls, you're beautiful. Don't look at those stupid magazines with sticklike models. Eat healthy and exercise. That's all. Don't let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You're good enough, you are too good. Love your family with all your heart and listen to it. You are gorgeous, whether you're a size 4 or 14. It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, as long as you're a good person, as long as you respect others. I know it's been told hundreds of times before, but it's true. Hey, girls, you are beautiful.” KnowsLooksHeartPersonsLongMatterEnoughBeautifulGirlStupidExerciseHealthyModelsSizeMagazinesHeyGood EnoughGorgeousGood PersonRespecting OthersNot Good EnoughYou Are BeautifulYou Re BeautifulLove Your FamilyGood LoveMcr Author:Gerard Way
“There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form. . . . According to this point of view, there is only a limited number of names, because society only needs a limited number of human types. Just a few models of worker and warrior ants, if I could put it like that. And everybody's psyche is preprogrammed at a basic level by the associative semantic fields that their first name and surname activate.” IfsNeedsFirstsHumansPersonsFormNamesLevelsViewsNumbersFieldsTypeModelsWorkersScriptsPoint Of ViewCommandWarriorPrimariesIf I CouldHypothesisAntsActivateSurnames Author:Victor Pelevin
“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
“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.” PeopleKindPersonsDoneGuyWorkGreaterFourTeamModelsNegativeChecksGreat ThingsTendenciesTeamworkBalancedBusiness InnovationGreat TeamInnovation And BusinessTeamwDifferent JobsThat One PersonIdeas And InnovationGreater ThingsInnovation And LeadershipGreat TeamworkTeamwork In Business Author:Steve Jobs
“The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.” PersonsSelfAbleBeautifulNextModelsConsciousSelf ConsciousGreat Gifts Author:Bono
“When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any realm--her goal remains abstract. Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. But a role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, 'Yes, someone like me can do this.” MayPersonsBookRealReasonInspirationYoungArtistGrowsGoalCan DoExistenceLeaderRolesGrowing UpDoubtExamplePossibilityNewsModelsScientistRemainsLawyerFleshLike MeRealmsAbstractRole ModelsBeing RealGiftedAspireInfluentialConfirmationSaying Yes Book:My Beloved World Source: My Beloved World