Model Quotes

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Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself… — Nikos Kazantzakis
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble. — Robert M. Sapolsky
The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique… — Wade Davis
In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make… — R. Buckminster Fuller
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree… — Marshall McLuhan
Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes… — Neil Postman
Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence.... — Robert Anton Wilson
If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model. — Banksy
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools. — C.S. Lewis
Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together… — Nikos Kazantzakis
People can have the Model T in any color â€“ so long as itâ€™s black. — Henry Ford
...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation… — James Redfield
You donâ€™t get it, do you?" I said. â€œItâ€™s not a question of â€˜what thenâ€™. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables… — Haruki Murakami
won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman… — Lucille Clifton
All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future… — Megan McCafferty
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive. — Gilda Radner
Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture. — Hermann Hesse
The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world… — Chuck Palahniuk

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