#models

IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them. ↗

— Stafford Beer

#cybernetics #models #paradigms #science #change

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model. ↗

— Queen Latifah

#inspirational #modeling #models #role-models #supermodels

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with. ↗

— Jane Campion

#around #both #built #dealing #fact

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#christianity #community #encouragement #example #giving

Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon. ↗

— Carrie Donovan

#afternoon #christy #declared #dying #entertainment

I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

#different #feel #female #grew #had

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#richard-feynmann #science #science

We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always been that way. Even those history books enamored of the voyages of Christopher Columbus do not tell much about the builders of the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria or about the principle of the caravel. These spacecraft their designers builders navigators and controllers are examples of what science and engineering set free for well-defined peaceful purposes can accomplish. Those scientists and engineers should be role models for an America seeking excellence and international competitiveness. They should be on our stamps. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#exploration #role-models #science #scientists #space

... toxic derivatives were underpinned by toxic economics, which, in turn, were no more than motivated delusions in search of theoretical justification; fundamentalist tracts that acknowledged facts only when they could be accommodated to the demands of the lucrative faith. Despite their highly impressive labels and technical appearance, economic models were merely mathematized versions of the touching superstition that markets know best, both at times of tranquility and in periods of tumult. ↗

— Yanis Varoufakis

#economic-models #economics #markets #faith

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#before #comes #i #models #never