models

Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.

When I die, I want to be remembered for what I did, not what I could've done

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.

From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's new discovery. They knew the secret too. They knew thin was good, thin was strong; thin was safe.

it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.

The absence of models, in literature as in life, to say nothing of painting, is an occupational hazard for the artist, simply because models in art, in behavior, in growth of spirit and intellect--even if rejected--enrich and enlarge one's view of existence. Deadlier still, to the artist who lacks models, is the curse of ridicule, the bringing to bear on an artist's best work, especially his or her most original, most strikingly deviant, only a fund of ignorance and the presumption that as an artist's critic one's judgement is free of the restrictions imposed by prejudice, and is well informed, indeed, about all the art in the world that really matters.

The child accepts role models of parental behavior unconsciously and without thinking

When a child is immersed in a certain environment, his thinking is formed by roles models of behavior demonstrated by parents in the family who have had a great influence on the formation of thinking of the child

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

Nowadays, nobody can teach you a useful thing about life, since models are outdated one moment after.

There is no color to known to beauty except elegance.

Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes but it is sort of necessary.

What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

If you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.