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• If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.

  Banksy

  Sex, Dirty, Role Models

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• In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation.

  John Tukey

  Thinking, Data, Simplicity

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• We as parents are our children's first and best role models, and this is particularly true when it comes to their health. ...We can't lie around on the couch eating French fries and candy bars and expect our kids to eat carrots and run around the block.

  Michelle Obama

  Running, Children, Block

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• In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.

  Joe Lieberman

  Military, Blessed, Leader

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• Through developing trusting and respectful relationships with the boys in our lives, we can help boys to value and acknowledge their relational capabilities, which they may otherwise learn to discount or overlook. We can also offer and model for them definitions of maturity, masculinity, health and success that will enable them to remain grounded in their self-knowledge (e.g. as they encounter societal pressures to conform to group and cultural norms), and to form relationships that will sustain rather than constrain them.

  Judy Chu

  Maturity, Boys, Self

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• What counts is results, and there can be no doubt that the Soviet planning system has been a powerful engine for economic growth...The Soviet model has surely demonstrated that a command economy is capable of mobilizing resources for rapid growth.

  Paul Samuelson

  Powerful, Doubt, Growth

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• I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.

  Edvard Munch

  Wall, Artist, Might

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• Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal before his eye, and was thus able to estimate the construction and values of his representation.

  William Rothenstein

  Eye, Levels, Able

  Sir William Rothenstein (1934). “Men and memories: recollections of William Rothenstein”

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• Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not so... Proper debunking is done in the interest of an alternate model of explanation, not as a nihilistic exercise. The alternate model is rationality itself, tied to moral decency--the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Powerful, Rap, Exercise

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• Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

  Gregory Bateson

  Causes, Logic, Poor

  "Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1979.

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• You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model.  Your primary influence is the environment you create.

  Peter Senge

  Commitment, Nudge Nudge, Role Models

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• In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models - that is, they are responsible for learning.

  Peter Senge

  Teacher, Organization, People

  "The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization". Book by Peter Senge, 1990.

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• Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leader, Coaching, Certain

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• Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive ideas into mundane ideas.

  Bob Herbold

  Inspirational, Ideas, Individual

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• Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of their models. They seemed to think that if the atoms were arranged in the right order and about the right distance apart, that was all that mattered, that no further restrictions need to be put on them.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Freedom, Distance, Science

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• ... by then I was getting a little work, doing some playing and getting paid for it, not very much, but enough for me to feel justified in buying a real instrument. I bought a Gretsch with a De-Armond pickup on it and a second-hand Gibson amplifier; it looked like the one Charlie Christian used. I guess it was the same, although there were several models coming out at that time - this would be in I939.

  Tal Farlow

  Music, Christian, Real

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• I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time.

  Joe Satriani

  Music, Men, Odds

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• There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.

  Barbara Park

  Smile, Children, Fun

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• Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

  Maurice Denis

  Horse, Order, Battle

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• If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Artist, Two, Imagination

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• Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.

  Andrew Solomon

  People, Needs, Belief

  Andrew Solomon (2017). “Far from the Tree: Young Adult Edition--How Children and Their Parents Learn to Accept One Another . . . Our Differences Unite Us”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

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• Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.

  Andrew Solomon

  Acceptance, Identity, Way

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't accept subtractive models of love, only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way we need species diversity to ensure that the planet can go on, so we need this diversity of affection and diversity of family in order to strengthen the ecosphere of kindness.

  Andrew Solomon

  Kindness, Believe, Order

  "Q&A with Andrew Solomon". Interview with Bronte Coates, www.readings.com.au. May 27, 2014.

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• People who are role models for the principles and values of the organization, who buy in and understand the vision of what the organization is trying to accomplish, and have the personality to inspire other people to the vision. You know, that’s what team chemistry and leadership is all about.

  Nick Saban

  Team, Organization, People

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• Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain.

  Mark Parker

  Nike, Mean, Impact

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