Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece.
Integrity (in our model) is not about good or bad, or right or wrong, or what should or should not be.
Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.
My advice to aspriring models is less is more, try not to do crazy hair and makeup, keep it simple but beautiful when you're trying to find an agency and get started.
The current siege on higher education, whether through defunding education, eliminating tenure, tying research to military needs, or imposing business models of efficiency and accountability, poses a dire threat not only to faculty and students who carry the mantle of university self-governance, but also to democracy itself.
The hustlers on the corner were my role models.
Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new discipline of artificial life, This approach, initiated by Chris Langton (1989, 1992), tries to develop technological systems (computer programs and autonomous robots) that exhibit lifelike properties, such as reproduction, sexuality, swarming, and co-evolution.
I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model.
Inspiration, in its rich variety, must be present in any discussion about Africa. We need role models - they are essential to the advancement of our society.
Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.
Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.
We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame.
Models are what they are. . . people who model clothing, that's all.
So many models have cool boyfriends.
I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made me realize that there was room in the world of sports for women. They ignited my dream of becoming an Olympic athlete.
I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I’d be happy.
Children need models rather than critics.
NASA's Aqua satellite is showing that water vapor, the dominant greenhouse gas, works to offset the effect of carbon dioxide - CO2. This information, contrary to the assumption used in all the warming models, is ignored by global warming alarmists.
We understand that athletes aren't necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state.
Scientists often seek predictively accurate models, rather than models that are true.