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• I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.

  Hines Ward

  Football, Player, Thinking

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• As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

  Carlton Cuse

  Thinking, Brain, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily the right path for starting a tech company. You should be building a prototype, not getting an MBA in that case.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Mba, Careers, Degrees

  "Interview with Guy Kawasaki | Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Author (Enchantment)". Interview with Sameer Kamat, www.mbacrystalball.com. June 26, 2011.

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• If you want to be useful, you can always start now. It will be a humble prototype of your grand vision, but you’ll be in the game. Start by teaching someone this week. Starting small puts 100% of your energy into solving real problems for real people.

  Derek Sivers

  Real, Teaching, Humble

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• Phoenix, n.
  The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'

  Ambrose Bierce

  Phoenix, Bird, Hot

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.181, University of Georgia Press

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• With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear [would] dial the number. You have to detect all sorts of ear-shapes and chin shapes, skin colour and hairdo... that was one of just many examples where we really thought, perhaps this isn’t going to work.

  Jonathan Ive

  Phones, Numbers, Skins

  "Apple design chief: We nearly scrapped iPhone" By Rory Anderson, www.cnn.com. August 3, 2012.

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• Today is what's thought about long ago. Now today we have to project, think, experiment, prototype the future.

  Hartmut Esslinger

  Thinking, Long Ago, Today

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• The Prophet was taken by the order of God to heaven, which is a prototype of all spiritual realization in Islam. But, he had a guide; Gabriel, the angel, was his guide. He took him to heaven.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Taken, Angel

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

  Helmut Jahn

  Two, Architecture, Building

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• Entrepreneurs need to start building today. The barrier to entry in tech is low, so start designing, start coding it, launch it, build prototypes, build a working version of it. The Internet has amazing powers of distribution. You can test your ideas. You can see if it works, if it doesn't work, whether it's fun, and whether you're sufficiently motivated. People who go into entrepreneurship to get rich aren't going to be happy. It’s the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.

  Caterina Fake

  Fun, Ideas, People

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• Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.

  Sara Blakely

  Journey, Doors, Fifth Avenue

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• You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does much the same thing with a prototype. I felt like a mother - always proud. It is a special feeling, as if you were awarded with a special award. I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.

  Shawn Fanning

  Design, Today, Clients

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Sex, Matter, Behavior

  Sigmund Freud (1950). “Collected Papers ...”

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• The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't sue.

  Wallace Stegner

  Real, Character, Two

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• But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Money, Artist, Financial

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• Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums.

  Martin Filler

  Cutting, Museums, Government

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• This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, a civilization superior to our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Lying, Past, Men

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 6: "The Little Apocrypha", p. 72, 1970.

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• I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.

  Timothy Leary

  Race, Laughing, Mutants

  "Shout!: The True Story of the Beatles". Book by Philip Norman, p. 365, 1981.

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• I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.

  Dennis Crowley

  Together, Execution, Enough

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• As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.105, Xist Publishing

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• Every epoch which seeks renewal first projects its ideal into a human form. In order to comprehend its own essence tangibly, the spirit of the time chooses a human being as its prototype and raising this single individual, often one upon whom it has chanced to come, far beyond his measure, the spirit enthuses itself for its own enthusiasm.

  Stefan Zweig

  Change, Order, Essence

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• The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.

  Mason Cooley

  Letting Go, Wedding, Boredom

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• When we make those guitars we make tons of prototypes, I have all those. And once a guitar has come out there's all different versions and colours and woods and I have all those. There's hundreds of them.

  John Petrucci

  Guitar, Different, Woods

  Source: www.rockbook.hu

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• We must believe in Christ and pattern our lives after him. We must be baptized as he was baptized. We must worship the Father as he did. We must do the will of the Father as he did. We must seek to do good and work righteousness as he did. He is our Exemplar, the great Prototype of salvation. . . . we must so live as to acquire the attributes of godliness and become the kind of people who can enjoy the glory and wonders of the celestial kingdom.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Father, Believe, People

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