Answers Quote by Rosario Castellanos

We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them…

— Lord Chesterfield

In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

— Aristotle

Most of us function under the model we have to get something in order to do something, in order to be something. If this…

— Srikumar Rao

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

— Vernor Vinge

We have to be living models.

— Jerome Myers

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from

— David Brin

“Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed.…

— Donella H. Meadows

That's always been my thing, to be able to find a model, an example, and then execute what I see from those people.

— Nelson Agholor

“I do not feel that we should set up people as “models”; rather actions, thoughts, principles.”

— Noam Chomsky

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.

— Lisa Randall

If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?'

— Gavin Schmidt

Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.

— Albert Bandura