“As retail goes through a fundamental shift into the digital world, I believe Ocado's model and the high standards of customer service it provides will see it emerge as a powerful online player.” WorldBelieveI BelievePowerfulPlayerModelsStandardsFundamentalsCustomersDigitalOnlineRetailHigh StandardsDigital World Author:Stuart Rose
“It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable.” TryingLooksProveCapableModelsStandardsProgramReasonableDynamics Author:Seth Lloyd
“Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet.” LastsJesusWaterChurchFeetModelsStandardsOrganizationHeyOfficersDiscipleHierarchyProfessionalismSupperTowelsLast Supper Book:Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage Source: Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage
“Wal-Mart provides a chilling example of the damage that low-wage, nonunion corporations can wreak, and their business model is going to set the standards for our children unless we do something now. Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.” ChildrenJobsExampleModelsLowsStandardsOur ChildrenCorporationsDamageGood JobChillPipeBusiness ModelsSewers Author:Andy Stern
“The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep their pictures in my trailer and try to measure to their standards every time I act.” TryingRolesIndustryModelsStandardsRole ModelsTrailersTrailblazers Author:Brian J. White
“I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil.” KnowsWritingIdeasMightTurnsModelsStandardsEnlightenmentFossilsMultiverse Author:Charles Jencks
“The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science.” GivingScienceTenModelsStandardsMathematicsAccuracyDecimals Author:Nathan Seiberg
“If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.” IfsEconomicExampleModelsStandardsFrancePredictionsThumbsEconomic Models Author:Robert H. Frank
“I feel that people who understand the horrible things that young emaciated models go through really champion the cause of realistic standards in fashion.You only have to see one person suffering to understand how truly horrible the industry is to these girls.” PeopleFeelsPersonsYoungSufferingGirlCausesFashionIndustryModelsStandardsHorribleChampionRealisticHorrible Things Author:Whitney Thompson
“How our governments need standards of integrity! How our communities need yardsticks to measure decency! How our neighborhoods need models of beauty and cleanliness! How our schools need continued encouragement and assistance to maintain high educational standards! Rather than spend time complaining about the direction in which these institutions are going, we need to exert our influence in shaping the right direction. A small effort by a few can result in so much good for all of mankind.” NeedsGovernmentSchoolCommunityResultsEffortInfluenceMankindIntegrityModelsStandardsEncouragementInstitutionsEducationalComplainingNeighborhoodEnd TimesAssistanceDecencySpend TimeOur CommunityCleanlinessRight DirectionYardsticksSmall Efforts Author:L. Tom Perry
“Everyone caved, adopted loose [accounting] standards, and created exotic derivatives linked to theoretical models. As a result, all kinds of earnings, blessed by accountants, are not really being earned. When you reach for the money, it melts away. It was never there. It [accounting for derivatives] is just disgusting. It is a sewer, and if I'm right, there will be hell to pay in due course. All of you will have to prepare to deal with a blow-up of derivative books.” IfsKindBookCoursesResultsDealsPayHellModelsStandardsBlessedBlowDuesAll KindsDisgustingEarningLinkedAdoptedTheoreticalExoticAccountingAccountantsDerivativesSewers Author:Charlie Munger
“The top quark was discovered in 1995 and since then the Higgs has become an because the standard model was incomplete with out it.” ModelsStandardsIncompleteQuarks Author:Fabiola Gianotti
“I remember Secretary of State [George] Shultz one day saying that America is an economic model for the world. I replied to him that America represents 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 30 percent of the world's energy. What if everyone in the world lives like Americans? Where do we get the energy for this standard of living?” IfsWorldStatesAmericaRememberEnergyEconomicOne DayModelsStandardsPercentPopulationWhat IfSecretaryStandards Of LivingWorld LifeEconomic Models Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“Opioid replacement therapy is the standard evidence-based model to treat people with acute opioid addiction, and that is unassailable according to every research study that's been done. If that is the evidence-based model, then why can't we meet the large-scale need that's out there? We can't because one, there aren't enough doctors who can prescribe [drugs like methadone], and two, there are these artificial limits [by insurers] on who doctors can prescribe to.” PeopleIfsNeedsTwoDoneEnoughStudyDrugLimitsModelsStandardsResearchEvidenceDoctorsTreatsAddictionScalesTherapyArtificialDoctor WhoReplacementsLarge ScaleOpioidsResearch StudyMethadone Author:Patrick J. Kennedy
“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
“The US two party system is very different, of course. Here the people decides about who should rule them, but it is not reasonable to claim that the people rules itself through the political institutions. In comparison, I find that the standard European system is better, also as a model for global democracy.” PeopleShouldTwoDifferentPoliticalCoursesPartyDemocracyModelsStandardsClaimsInstitutionsReasonableComparisonPolitical InstitutionsTwo Party System Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.” PeopleIfsMenNeedsYearsKindBigsActionComedyEventsModelsStandardsTheaterStudiosVampireBudgetsBroadsGoing To WorkSpidersAction MovieSpider ManBig Events Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“A responsibility to be a role model as a father yes, as a man, as a public figure, yes. That responsibility just leads me to do what I feel is right and to conduct myself with the moral standards, principles, and integrity that were instilled in me by my family.” MenFeelsFatherResponsibilityMoralPrinciplesRolesFiguresIntegrityModelsStandardsMy FamilyRole ModelsLeading MePublic Figures Author:T.I.
“Parecon is a very tough-minded economic vision and model, and it sets a standard for us to look at.” LooksVisionEconomicModelsStandardsTough Author:Gar Alperovitz
“By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.” PeopleImportantSchoolYoungModelsStandardsTestsExcitingMethodFactorsEducatedAccountabilityUrbanBusiness ModelsSuccess Or Failure Author:Jonathan Kozol
“My dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and mentors. Please look to your faithful mothers for a pattern to follow. Model yourselves after them, not after celebrities whose standards are not the Lord's standards and whose values may not reflect an eternal perspective. Look to your mother.” LooksHeartMayYoungMotherValuesCultureLordRolesPerspectiveMy HeartPleaseEternalModelsStandardsDearPatternsContemporaryFaithfulUrgesRole ModelsMentorYoung Women Author:M. Russell Ballard