Quotes About Models

'Sanctus' deals with creation myths in every culture. It fascinates me that all cultures, evolving independently, have similar models of mankind's origins, of a Greater Being, of the flood, and so on. It's amazing how they crop up time and time again.

I used to watch some of the reality shows about models, and then, weirdly, now I try to incorporate into my fashion shoots the skills I learnt from watching those shows. It's like, thanks Tyra, 'cause you've given me, like, all the cool tips. Like how to smile with your eyes.

You cannot determine someone's health by the BMI alone. There are many factors that contribute to the health on an individual. If we're going to start using BMI to police straight size models, what's next? The plus size industry? To be honest, if it was down to BMI alone, most plus size models - including myself - wouldn't be working.

Honestly, I think more people need to hydrate and drink more water during Fashion Week. It's the only way to survive.

As with early internet startups, some token models don't make sense. For every 1 huge hit, there will be 3 minor successes and 100 failures, so we shouldn't be surprised when some fail.

There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as 'nutty methods.' Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as a complete waste of time.

When taking actions, wise people apply multiple models like a doctor's set of diagnostic tests. They use models to rule out some actions and privilege others. Wise people and teams construct a dialogue across models, exploring their overlaps and differences.

Mastery of models improves your ability to reason, explain, design, communicate, act, predict, and explore.

People assume that if they use higher mathematics and computer models they're doing the Lord's work," observed Buffett's longtime partner, the cerebral Charlie Munger. "They're usually doing the devil's work.

The clothing, the makeup, the freedom of expression in [the models'] bodies. It was Linda and Christy and Naomi at the time. So I modeled before college.

This is the invisible lesson that so many people miss about design thinking exercises. It's not about any particular model or way of sorting things, it's about shifting fluidly between many models and, in doing so, seeing information in a different way. This is what leads to insights and understanding.

if you take a positivist position, as I do, questions about reality don't have any meaning. All one can ask is whether imaginary time is useful in formulating mathematical models that describe what we observe.

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

nothing in Nature is black or white, few solutions are clean and clear; rather, reality, and especially our models of it, possess shades of gray throughout.

There is no need for explanatory models to be object models, and it is generally best if they are not.

JavaScript doesn't have a classical object-oriented model, where you create objects from classes. In fact, JavaScript doesn't have classes at all. In JavaScript, objects inherit behavior from other objects, which we call prototypal inheritance, or inheritance based on prototypes.

All successful sales models depend on breaking down the monolithic view of organizations into the disparate people that make them up.

We urgently need to invent new models of generosity. We need to find a way for a small portion to feel as much like love as a large one.

Greatness without models? Inconceivable. One could not be the thing itself -- Reality. One must be satisfied with symbols.

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.

Political analysis is full of chess metaphors, reflecting an old tradition of seeing games as models of physical and social reality.

I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.

In my opinion, one of the most exciting potentials of the blockchain relate to creating new business models, whether in public or in private settings. In most of these cases, the new models don't care for incumbents because they are mostly on a disruption quest.

All models have faults - that doesn't mean you can't use them as tools for making decisions.