Quotes About Modeling

I started out like any other model - I didn't use my name as leverage. I went out with a portfolio and pounded the pavement and it was surprising how many people wouldn't see me because I was too short.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom came in contact with Elite Amsterdam; then I started modeling.

My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design.

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

You have to have a government that does give both money and energy to function in a leadership role modeling giving for the people. Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases.

Business fits me best. The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that money gave you freedom.

Modeling was something that fell into my lap. It was fun to travel and make money, but it always seemed like a hobby.

To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling.

Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling.

I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didnt dissuade me.

We have forgotten that those skills on the more positive side of human nature have to be taught, have to be modeled, have to be practiced.

Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.

The modelers are starting to map out the possible climate states of exoplanets. I've participated in some workshops about this and have found it fascinating watching astronomers and terrestrial climate modelers try to talk to one another. There is a huge gulf in scale and perspective. Our knowledge of exoplanets is so sparse. Each of these worlds is known to us as, at best, a few numbers: mass, distance from a star, and in some cases vague inferences about temperature

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

It's exciting for me to be home in California where I'm from and to be working with Victoria's Secret.

People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.

We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.

I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say 'Wow she looks healthy.'

An expert knows the subject very well. A model teaches by showing instead of just telling.

If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding...and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

Children surrounded by fast-paced visual stimuli (TV, videos, computer games) at the expense of face-to-face adult modeling, interactive language, reflective problem-solving, creative play, and sustained attention may be expected to arrive at school unprepared for academic learning—and to fall farther behind and become increasingly "unmotivated" as the years go by.

In the good old days few people questioned the idea that Dad's decisions were final. Because of the human rights movement, this is no longer true. Rudolf Dreikurs pointed out, "When Dad lost control of Mom, they both lost control of the children." All this means is that Mom quit giving the children a model of submissiveness.