A picture is a model of reality.
People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives.
The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.
We’re seeing that business models and philanthropic models are not mutually exclusive.
From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales.
Right after the show tonight, I'm going to the New York City car show. You get to see the models that will be crashed next year by drunken Secret Service agents.
If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?'
A business model describes how your company creates, delivers and captures value.
It's called "Pickman's Mephitic Models," based on the story [Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft]. Certain things about it many people don't realize. Pickman was a real painter who lived between 1888 and 1926. Now, there's a question mark [gesturing toward the writing in the margins of the painting], because Lovecraft claims that he turned into a ghoul. God knows how old he is now.
I do think that we'd do better if we just offered all the bureaucrats in the Department of Education very attractive early retirements. But whether you want to abolish the department is another matter. Maybe there's room for recruiting a lot of visionary people who would do very good things: develop new techniques, new ideas, foster innovative models, disseminate those ideas.
A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.
I wasn't a model that loved food. I was someone that loved food that started modeling.
Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.
In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.
Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people to courageous action the way that powerful stories can.
I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
There's a team of filmmakers who follow me in the streets when I'm finding these models, to give me a sense of legitimacy to a casual stranger. This is New York City. No one's going to follow you back to your studio.
Lila can't be a model until she's at least 21. She is already a mini-me - it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit.