“I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.” MenTodayFormRealizingViewsRolesSuccessfulStudentsLuckyModelsFemaleVictimMeetingsAbsenceIdeologyProfessorsRole ModelsRebelOppressorsSeductive Author:Camille Paglia
“In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states.” WorldShouldStatesTermMy OwnSimpleViewsModelsManagementComplexesCurriculum Author:Dan Ariely
“We are intensely loyal to our parents. In spite of the pain we experienced at our parent's hands, we cling tenaciously to their views of life; and their examples of what it is to be a man or a woman follow us throughout life. Acknowledging the power of our loyalty to them, and especially our loyalty to our same-sex parent, is only the beginning of our journey to improve upon their model; but it is at least a first step.” MenFirstsHandsPainSexParentViewsStepsJourneyExampleModelsLoyaltySpiteLoyalFirst StepsBe A Man Author:Augustus Napier
“I don't read the Bible as the literal word of God; I don't view Jesus as a God. I've rejected both those statements. I view Jesus as a model for how we should live, and by that definition I do consider myself a Christian.” ShouldChristianJesusViewsModelsDefinitionsStatementsWord Of GodRejectedLiteral Author:Tim DeChristopher
“If you read Calvin, for example, he says, How do we know that we are godlike, in the image of God? Well, look at how brilliant we are. Look how we can solve problems even dreaming, which I think is true, which I've done myself. So instead of having an externalized model of reality with an objective structure, it has a model of reality that is basically continuously renegotiated in human perception. I think that view of things is pretty pervasively influential in Protestant thought.” IfsThinkingKnowsHumansWellsLooksDoneProblemDreamRealityViewsExamplePerceptionModelsStructureSolveBrilliantObjectivesInfluentialProtestantsGod ImageGodlike Author:Marilynne Robinson
“I tend not to worry about what the perception is. I think people have their different views over different things. They have different opinions over different business models and over different business interests.” PeopleThinkingDifferentInterestViewsOpinionWorryPerceptionModelsDifferent ThingsBusiness ModelsDifferent ViewsDifferent Opinions Author:Bruno Zheng Wu
“Expert estimates of probability are often off by factors of hundreds or thousands. [...] I used to be annoyed when the margin of error was high in a forecasting model that I might put together. Now I view it as perhaps the single most important piece of information that a forecaster provides. When we publish a forecast on FiveThirtyEight, I go to great lengths to document the uncertainty attached to it, even if the uncertainty is sufficiently large that the forecast won't make for punchy headlines.” IfsImportantMightTogetherUsedViewsPiecesInformationModelsErrorsFactorsUsed To BeUncertaintyExpertsLengthDocumentsProbabilityPublishMarginsAnnoyedHeadlinesForecastsForecasting Author:Nate Silver
“In 'Birth,' I explore the nature of the new world we are approaching with my business-spiritual model, a new model for a new world. This view will enable individuals, companies and even nations to move from collapse to positive change, and bring together the spiritual and the material, giving birth to a new future.” WorldGivingTogetherSpiritualMovingIndividualNationsViewsCompanyMaterialsBirthModelsNew WorldCollapseGiving BirthPositive ChangeNew Future Author:Shari Arison
“There's no greater model, in my view, than Jesus Christ.” JesusChristViewsGreaterModelsJesus Christ Author:Bill Maher
“A lot has been written about the Internet bust. From my point of view, it's quite clear the Internet isn't a category; the Internet is a technological infrastructure that can be deployed to facilitate a disruptive business model or a sustaining business model.” Has BeensViewsClearWrittenInternetModelsPoint Of ViewCategoriesTechnologicalInfrastructureSustainingFacilitateDisruptiveBusiness Models Author:Clayton Christensen
“I want to say something, and it may sound harsh, not to you, but to the American people. In a sense, in my view, the business model of Wall Street is fraud. It's fraud. I believe that corruption is rampant, and the fact that major bank after major bank has reached multi billion dollar settlements with the United States government when we have a weak regulator system tells me that not only did we have to bail them out once, if we don't start breaking them up, we're going to have to bail them out again, and I do not want to see that happen.” PeopleIfsWantBelieveMayStatesFactsGovernmentHappensI BelieveSoundUnitedViewsUnited StatesStreetsWallMajorsModelsWeakDollarsCorruptionBillionsFraudHarshSettlementState GovernmentBusiness ModelsBailUnited States GovernmentRegulators Author:Bernie Sanders
“The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.” EndsViewsToo MuchOne DayModelsConsumersConsumptionPersonal Views Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“If you say something that is a little unsafe to say but you feel strongly and passionate about it, a lot of people can attack you and call you a bad role model just because they don't agree with your views, but in reality we're all different and we're all unique in our own way and we all have different thoughts.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsLittlesDifferentRealityViewsRolesUniqueModelsAgreePassionateRole ModelsUnsafe Author:Melanie Martinez
“In [Ronald] Reagan's view, the American Founders had anchored their experiment in Judeo-Christian beliefs; the Bolsheviks deliberately established an antithetical model. Those founders of communism divorced their "faith" from God.” ChristianBeliefViewsModelsExperimentsCommunismFoundersDivorcedBolsheviks Author:Paul Kengor
“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
“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
“Is war an inevitable outcome of competing interests in a complex society? In other words, would war be the same even if human nature were very different? There are mathematical models of large groups working together that lead to conflict on a reliable basis. So there's a whole other view of war that is not psychological at all.” IfsHumansDifferentWarWholeTogetherInterestViewsGroupsHuman NatureConflictModelsBasesComplexesPsychologicalMathematicalInevitableOutcomesWorking TogetherCompetingLarge GroupsMathematical Models Author:Jaron Lanier
“I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.” ThinkingShouldTryingBelieveBodyI BelieveViewsRolesModelsRole ModelsPalette Author:Camille Paglia
“I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!” ThinkingLittlesImportantYoungGirlWalksViewsRolesGrowing UpGrowingProudModelsPoint Of ViewRole ModelsYoung WomenWalks Of LifeGirls Growing Up Author:Sally Ride
“The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.” PeopleRealityFilmFormRoomsViewsImpossibleWorstModelsIllusionPoint Of ViewDepartmentBullyingWorst ThingsFurnitureCripples Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“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