“One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.” ArtRealityPurposeExistenceStyleOffersModelsArt IsFunctionPaceDesirable Author:Peter Schmidt
“I am arguing that climate models are not fit for the purpose of detection and attribution of climate change on decadal to multidecadal timescales.” PurposeFitModelsClimateClimate ChangeArguingDetectionAttribution Author:Judith Curry
“The problem facing humanity today is not a political problem; it's not a financial problem; it's not a military problem. It's obviously a spiritual problem. That is, it has to do with what we believe to be true about who we are, where we are, why we are where we are, and what are we doing on the Earth. What is the purpose of life itself? What we need right now are leaders or models, people who will stand up and not only help to write a cultural story, but help to model it in the way that they interact with each other.” PeopleWayNeedsWritingBelieveHelpingStoriesProblemTodayEarthSpiritualPoliticalPurposeHumanityLeaderMilitaryRight NowModelsFinancialBeing TrueWho We ArePurpose Of LifeWhat Is The Purpose Of LifeFinancial Problems Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that still surround this institution indicate that marriage has evolved without casting away its earlier purposes or assumptions. It's like we just keep building on this thing, piling new advancements on the old model.” FirstsStillsLawPurposeReligiousModernBuildingTaxesModelsInstitutionsUnionsAssumptionSurroundCastingInheritanceAdvancementImplicationsModern Marriage Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. The living room rug was frequently littered with hundreds of metal “girders” and tiny nuts and bolts surrounding half-finished structures. An understanding mother allowed me to keep the projects going for days on end.” EndsMovingJoyMotherPurposeUnderstandingHoursRoomsNumbersHalfDesignBuildingProjectsSummerModelsStructureSizeFinishedTinyGradesDevicesNutsMetalsAirplaneFourthPlasticCriteriaLiving RoomBoltsKindergartenFourth GradeNuts And BoltsMoving PartsHappy HourWarships Author:Steven Chu
“The efficient market theory is one of the better models in the sense that it can be taken as true for every purpose I can think of. For investment purposes, there are very few investors that shouldn't behave as if markets are totally efficient.” IfsThinkingI CanPurposeTakenTheoryModelsInvestmentInvestingBehaveInvestorsEfficientEfficient Markets Author:Eugene Fama
“My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times. And the way I would justify it to the head teacher if he came in or to any parents who complained was, look, I'm telling these great stories because they're part of our cultural heritage. I did believe that.” IfsWayBelieveLooksRealStoriesSchoolPurposeParentPracticeTeacherMiddleStudentsModelsStorytellingJustifyHeritageTelling StoriesMiddle SchoolCultural HeritageOdysseyIliad Author:Philip Pullman
“The effort of building an ideal society always leads to violence, often to very extensive violence. Because, whether we like it or not, it is not possible to create an ideal society with imperfect people. And this, unfortunately, we are. So the main purpose for Nazism as well as for Communism was to create a 'new person'. In order to make room for it, the world needed to be rid of its non-perfect models.” PeopleWorldWellsPersonsPurposeOrderPerfectRoomsEffortViolenceBuildingNeededModelsIdealsCommunismImperfectNazismIdeal Society Author:Mart Laar
“I think it's important to have a greater purpose behind modeling. Don't model just because you're pretty and you want to make money. Every girl wants that. You have to stand out from everyone else and on those really hard days, that is really the only thing that will keep you going.” ThinkingWantImportantHardPurposeGirlBehindsGreaterModelsMaking MoneyStanding OutModelingEvery GirlYou Re PrettyHard DaysGreater PurposeEvery Girl Wants Author:Whitney Thompson
“So the older models, when you look at Freudian, when you look at Jungian thought, and there's still people who really - who really use the Jungian thought of dream analysis, is really that you would analyze the dreams. The dreams are there for a purpose.” PeopleLooksStillsUseDreamPurposeModelsAnalysis Author:Shelby Harris
“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
“Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.” LongPurposeValuesCausesTermCommunityModelsCommitmentProfitCoreLong TermIntegratingCore ValuesBusiness Models Author:Simon Mainwaring
“The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.” IfsWorldUsePurposeKnowledgeLearningModels Book:I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic Source: I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic
“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