“I feel like a big trend is just to model your success off someone else and I don't think that ever works in the long run.” ThinkingFeelsLongBigsRunningModelsTrendsLong Runs Author:Mamrie Hart
“Kant can provide, and has provided, a good model for philosophers to think about the relation of metaphysics to science and scientific methodology.” ThinkingModelsRelationPhilosopherMetaphysicsMethodology Author:Allen W. Wood
“Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conceive to be introductory stuff. That way, you will always aim towards understanding things at a resolution fine enough for you to be creative.” ThinkingWayIdeasEnoughReadingStuffUnderstandingCreativeFineModelsAimResolutionNew IdeasBe CreativeUnderstanding Things Author:Edward Boyden
“I think the definition will change as we learn more, but my working definition of solving the brain is: one, we can model, maybe in a computer, the processes that generate things like thoughts and feelings, and two, we can understand how to cure brain disorders, like Alzheimer's and epilepsy. Those are my two driving goals. One is more human-condition oriented, and one more clinical.” ThinkingHumansTwoFeelingsProcessGoalBrainConditionsComputerModelsDefinitionsDrivingCuresDisorderHuman ConditionThoughts And FeelingsAlzheimerAlzheimer'sClinicalsEpilepsy Author:Edward Boyden
“I think, cumulatively, I probably have done more photo sessions than just about everyone. Maybe as much as a supermodel. I know they model all the time, but have they done it for 35 years? I don't think so.” ThinkingKnowsYearsDoneModelsSessionSupermodel Author:Cassandra Peterson
“I think because I do model for brands but it's never without input, ever. With AG I front their campaign, and obviously designed the collection for them. I did the same back in the day with Madewell. Even with Longchamp, there's a certain amount of collaboration on deciding on photographers and stuff like that. It's something that I'm accustomed to doing behind the scenes.” ThinkingCertainStuffBehindsFrontsAmountSceneModelsPhotographerCampaignsBrandsCollectionsCollaborationAccustomedInputBehind The ScenesBack In The Day Author:Alexa Chung
“It's shot by Ben Rayner who I think is very talented at doing portrait photography as well as fashion photography. His images never look like a model. You know, it doesn't look like a faceless model just wearing whatever. There's always personality that comes through. That was quite important for me to capture.” ThinkingKnowsWellsLooksImportantFashionPersonalityPhotographyModelsShotsCapturePortraitsFacelessFashion PhotographyPortrait Photography Author:Alexa Chung
“When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingMeanStillsI CanStatesForceTechnologyEnvironmentComputerModelsDepartmentEmployeeDevicesDesksSecretaryNew Environment Author:Hillary Clinton
“I like hair that's been 'worn in' because it's much easier to deal with.... I actually don't like it when [models] come in with this beautiful, thick, glossy hair. I think, Oh, no! I can't do a thing with this!” ThinkingI CanBeautifulDealsHairEasierModelsThickWorn Author:Guido Palau
“That might be the old model: to get a fixed fee. You have to start to think about other models and how they can generate interest - what it can do for a brand in the future - and about the fact that revenue can also be generated in many other ways... Just look at the one and a half million people at the free Rolling Stones concert in Cuba. And Cuba is not Central Park! So just use your imagination as to what kind of revenue can be made.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksKindMadeFactsUseMightInterestCan DoImaginationHalfMillionsModelsStonesBrandsFixedParksConcertsRollingRevenueCubaFeesRolling StonesCentral Park Author:Martin Sorrell
“I think my stuff's kind of obsolete now, you know? I'm making Model Ts or something, and everybody else is making spaceships.” ThinkingKnowsKindStuffModelsObsoleteSpaceshipsModel T Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I wish more of the web had stayed nonprofit. But the advertising model took over and I think has delivered us to where we are, along with the development of content, which is designed to do nothing else but make you click on it or share it. And I think it's kind of a low goal for content, and I think that's taken us to our current abyss.” ThinkingKindWishGoalTakenShareDevelopmentModelsLowsCurrentsAdvertisingAbyssClicksNonprofits Author:Tim Wu
“I think Google is the most successful attention merchant - profitable attention merchant in the history of the world, most successful advertising-only based company - most profitable. They started a very idealistic, beautiful company in many ways, but they didn't have a business model.” ThinkingWorldWayBeautifulAttentionCompanySuccessfulModelsAdvertisingGoogleWorld HistoryProfitableMerchantsIdealisticBusiness Models Author:Tim Wu
“I don't think anyone at Google feels happy about it, but they've been in some sense, you know, enslaved to their business model, and so they have to satisfy their advertisers.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsModelsGoogleBusiness ModelsAdvertisers Author:Tim Wu
“I see how 14-year old girls react to me and I think I'm a good role model. Rockstar maybe not, but I'm willing to play with it for a little while, until my hair gets gray.” ThinkingYearsLittlesPlayGirlRolesWillingHairModelsGrayRole ModelsRockstarsGood Role Models Author:Emily Haines
“I think there's inherently an issue that models will literally never be able to handle, which is that when somebody comes along with a new way of doing something that's really excellent, the models will not recognize it. They only know how to recognize excellence when they can measure it somehow.” ThinkingKnowsWayAbleKnow HowIssuesModelsExcellenceHandleExcellentNew Ways Author:Cathy O'Neil
“My earliest memory of architecture, I was perhaps 6 or 7 years old, was of my aunt building a house in mosul in the north of iraq. The architect was a close friend of my father's and he used to come to our house with the drawings and models. I remember seeing the model in our living room and I think it triggered something, as I was completely intrigued by it.” ThinkingYearsRememberUsedFatherHouseMemoriesRoomsSeeingBuildingModelsIraqArchitectureDrawingArchitectAuntLiving RoomIntriguedClose Friends Author:Zaha Hadid
“I see myself, in terms of the question of capitalism, as I would support democratic socialism over a capitalist system, because any approach... or participatory economics, which is another great model that people like Michael Albert are putting out there... any system that encourages us to think about interdependency, and to be able to use the world's resources in a wiser way, for the good of the whole, would be better for the world than capitalism.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWholeUseWould BeAbleTermSupportApproachModelsCapitalismResourcesEconomicsDemocraticSocialismCapitalistWiserDemocratic Socialism Author:Bell Hooks
“I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp.” ThinkingWould BeCrazyModelsFinanceEntityBeing CrazyReconstruction Author:Warren Buffett
“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 think we at the faculty level have to model this behavior of having people that really truly disagree with one another be able to discuss those beliefs with one another at the level of discussion and argument and not at the level of, you know, personal attack so that our students can learn how to do that, too.” PeopleThinkingKnowsAbleBeliefLevelsStudentsBehaviorModelsArgumentDiscussionFacultyDisagreePersonal Attacks Author:Mark Schlissel
“It might take a while but I think the rap game is the people that can do it. We're all role models more than athletes because athletes don't wear clothes like the kid in the hood and they don't walk and talk like the kids in the hood. We're closer to them than anybody because they can look at us and see them.” PeopleThinkingLooksMightKidsGamesCan DoWalksRolesClothesModelsAthleteRapRole ModelsHood Author:Rakim
“[Albert Camus] started thinking through sensation. He could never think with artefacts or with cultural models because there were none. So it's true to say that his morality was extremely 'lived', made from very concrete things. It never passed by means of abstractions . It's his own experience, his way of thinking.” ThinkingWayMeanMadeMoralityModelsSensationsConcreteAbstractionWay Of ThinkingArtefacts Author:Catherine Camus
“I think part of what has to happen, somewhere, pretty soon, is that a human template has to come up. We have to start with, OK let's throw out all this other stuff, everything we have thought about it before, throw out all our models, and start with a human. What is a human?” ThinkingHumansHappensStuffModelsCome Up Author:Jerry Garcia
“[Antonio] Gramsci's words and actions explain their assessment, though I think we should refrain from using the term "model intellectual" for him or others.” ThinkingShouldActionTermIntellectualModelsRefrainAssessmentWords And ActionsAntonio Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think the Indian model of respecting the uniqueness of each religion and, of every state is what makes the country great.” ThinkingCountryStatesModelsIndianUniqueness Author:Kabir Bedi
“In a lot of writing or intellectual discourse we're starting to use that model: "Oh, this is where it comes from!" I would like to concentrate on work which is more resistant to that procedure, as I think fiction is.” ThinkingWritingUseFictionIntellectualModelsStartingDiscourseProcedures Author:Susan Sontag
“It's hard for me to believe sometimes that my three kids never met my dad. Because one of the things - one of the real blessings to me is that while my dad left this Earth when I was in my 20s, he's just as much a part of, of my life now than he was then, in terms of I often think of my dad. I think of what my dad might do in a certain situation. And so he continues to be, you know, my hero, my role model.” ThinkingKnowsBelieveRealSometimesHardMightKidsEarthCertainThreeLeftTermSituationRolesHeroDadMetsBlessingModelsMy DadRole ModelsBe YouMy Hero Author:Mike Pence
“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
“I started with "Pickman's Model," because it was about Boston. I mean, what I loved about [H. P. Lovecraft], at first is his sense of scholarship of an area, setting an environment, enlivening it. I think that's one of the secrets of writing.” ThinkingWritingFirstsMeanSecretEnvironmentModelsAreasSettingSettingsBostonScholarshipLovecraft Author:Paul Laffoley
“I didn't ask to become a role model, but it was thrust upon all of us, regardless of whether you acknowledge it. You have to come to a decision as an adult and say, "I've got to live my life." There's nothing wrong with thinking ahead and being aware of how it might affect somebody - everything from a post to where you have dinner to who you're with. But these aren't things you can let consume your life.” ThinkingMightAsksDecisionRolesModelsAdultsDinnerPostsAcknowledgeRole ModelsLiving My LifeThrustThinking Ahead Author:Nick Jonas
“My Big Mama is my No. 1 financial role model. Much of my advice stems from what she taught me. She never made more than $13,000 a year, yet she paid off her home before she retired. She saved money from every paycheck. She taught me to be skeptical. It makes me cry to think that I'm a nationally syndicated personal finance columnist for one of the world's best newspapers and my core advice comes from my black grandmother who was a nurse's aide with just a high school education.” ThinkingWorldYearsMadeHomeBigsSchoolBlackRolesAdviceCryTaughtModelsHigh SchoolPaidFinancialSavedCoreNewspapersFinanceGrandmotherRole ModelsNurseStemRetiredSkepticalMamaPaychecksColumnistsSchool EducationPersonal FinancePaid OffBig Mama Author:Michelle Singletary
“I think [John Adams] developed a much deeper suspicion of France and the other European powers than he had earlier. He lost much if not all of the utopian thinking about international politics and diplomacy expressed in his Model Treaty of 1776 and became much more cynical about the world.” IfsThinkingWorldLostModelsInternationalDeeperFranceCynicalSuspicionDiplomacyTreatiesUtopian Author:Gordon S. Wood
“I think [John Adams's] influence on the federal Constitution was indirect. Many including James Madison mocked the first volume of Adams's Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787. But his Massachusetts constitution was a model for those who thought about stable popular governments, with its separation of powers, its bicameral legislature, its independent judiciary, and its strong executive.” ThinkingFirstsStatesGovernmentStrongUnitedUnited StatesInfluenceModelsConstitutionIndependentIncludingSeparationExecutivesStableVolumeDefenceLegislatureJudiciaryIndirectMassachusettsMadisonConstitution Of The United StatesSeparation Of PowersIndependent Judiciary Author:Gordon S. Wood
“I don't believe that unemployment is all voluntary, by anticipation of future wage movements or this sort of thing. I know you can modify the models by taking into account the indivisibilities, but I don't really think that people are voluntarily unemployed.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveMovementModelsAccountsDon't BelieveAnticipationUnemploymentUnemployed Author:Kenneth Arrow
“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
“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
“There are those who view the abolitionists as just maniacs, apolitical fanatics who helped to cause the war, and Lincoln is the model of responsible statesmanship. I think that is a misconception, the idea that Lincoln knows what's possible and the abolitionists don't.” ThinkingKnowsIdeasWarCausesViewsModelsResponsibleFanaticsMisconceptionManiacsStatesmanshipAbolitionistApolitical Author:Eric Foner
“I wish Michael Schumacher would come try NASCAR. That'd be cool. With everything he's done and how professional he's remained through it all, I think he's an awesome role model as far as work ethic and tenacity. He just seems like he knows how to get it done.” ThinkingKnowsTryingDoneSeemsWishRolesKnow HowModelsEthicsRole ModelsWork EthicTenacityBeing CoolGet It DoneNascarSchumacher Author:Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
“I think for most guys, when we grow up we're trying to establish what being a man means to us and so I think it's pretty helpful and beneficial when there's a role model in the house.” ThinkingMenTryingMeanGuyHouseGrowsRolesGrowing UpModelsHelpfulRole ModelsBeneficial Author:Jonathan McReynolds
“There are some political issues where mainstream press attention only hurts. We think about activism as being this generic model of consciousness-raising, then hopefully media attention, attraction of new people to your cause, building public support for your cause, then decision-makers reacting to that change in public opinion. That's true for some types of activism, but it is not true for all of them.” PeopleThinkingPoliticalCausesHurtDecisionAttentionConsciousnessOpinionSupportIssuesMediaBuildingTypeModelsPressesAttractionActivismHopefullyMakersMainstreamPublic OpinionReactingGenericDecision MakersPolitical Issues Author:Rachel Maddow
“In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must not show the poor, it must not show the condition of black people. It can only the successful ones, basketball players, musicians, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell. But I think the time will come when the Occupy movement will have to somehow formulate something more than just anger.” PeopleThinkingWorldHas BeensShowsAmericaBlackPoorSuccessfulPlayerConditionsMovementBasketballMusicianModelsBlack PeopleRiceBasketball PlayerOccupy Movement Author:Arundhati Roy
“I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior position - very often combined with playing up women as great role [models].” ThinkingHumansKindLongWholeProblemRolesPositionLong TimeModelsGenderInequalityRole ModelsInferiorsHuman SocietyGender InequalityGreat Role ModelsPlaying Up Author:Amartya Sen
“In studying language we can discover many basic properties of this cognitive structure, its organization, and also the genetic predispositions that provide the foundation for its development. So in this respect, linguistics, first of all, tries to characterize a major feature of human cognitive organization. And second, I think it may provide a suggestive model for the study of other cognitive systems. And the collection of these systems is one aspect of human nature.” ThinkingTryingFirstsHumansMayLanguageStudyHuman NatureDevelopmentMajorsModelsAspectOrganizationFoundationStructurePropertyFeaturesCollectionsCognitiveLinguistics Author:Noam Chomsky
“For one thing, studying language is by itself a part of a study of human intelligence that is, perhaps, the central aspect of human nature. And second, I think, it is a good model for studying other human properties, which ought to be studied by psychologists in the same way.” ThinkingWayHumansLanguageStudyOne ThingHuman NatureOughtModelsAspectPropertyPsychologistHuman Intelligence Author:Noam Chomsky
“When one is that powerful and one think life will last like that forever, it is simply the most ephemeral thing. I don't think these sons and daughters of drug dealers are contributing to a lasting peace nor to human values that add to our society. They're delivering the message of riches and power that comes at the cost of people's lives and health and they incentivize young people to follow this model.” PeopleThinkingHumansLastsYoungValuesPowerfulForeverSonCostDrugMessagesModelsDaughterAddRichesOur SocietyLastingContributingDealerDeliveringEphemeralHuman ValuesSon And DaughterDrug Dealers Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“In building up a democratic model I think that Cuba's contribution, little by little, has contributed to getting closer to the ideals of those philosophers, of those Greeks who thought about how a society could be fairer, how a society could really represent the interests of the people. We have tried to get closer to that from a Latin-American perspective and from the Cuban perspective.” PeopleThinkingLittlesInterestBuildingPerspectiveModelsIdealsDemocraticPhilosopherGreekContributionLatinCubaCubanBuilding UpLatin American Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“What we have done, I think, is build a model from a lot of hard lessons in Afghanistan and Iraq but in other places around the world, where we are working with them in an advisory capacity.” ThinkingWorldHardDoneLessonsModelsCapacityIraqAround The WorldAfghanistanHard LessonsAdvisory Author:Barack Obama
“The patriarchal model of spirituality was, I think, a necessary step, as a baby learns to crawl before it walks.” ThinkingSpiritualityWalksStepsBabyModels Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“The Vietnam War was taking place, which was raising all sorts of questions in the United States, and it was forcing Asian-Americans to stop thinking of themselves as model minorities and to identify themselves more with world revolution, which was very important in my development.” ThinkingWorldImportantWarStatesUnitedUnited StatesRevolutionDevelopmentModelsMinoritiesVietnamAsianVietnam WarAsian American Author:Grace Lee Boggs