I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it’s 30 years later.
A revolution is to bring on change and we’re spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I’m a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn’t evolved is mankind’s spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago.
I was always telling girls who said that they wanted to be the ‘next’ Kate Moss or the ‘next’ Gisele that it wasn’t possible, because the ‘next’ girl wasn’t going to look like anybody else; she would be somebody unique. If you look at all the great models… they all have an individual look.
The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.
Business models that are relevant today are not relevant tomorrow and were not in existence yesterday.
In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.
It is draining when you have a child, and there aren’t many women directors with kids out there as role models.
But I think role models also start in the home with your parents.
Listen, there’s an expiration date for everything, but I mean, we’re not burning out on ‘Top Models,’ are we? We’re not burning out on making things in a ‘Runway’ room, are we? We’re not getting enough ‘Got Talent,’ right? We’ll never run out of talent. So, how could there be a ‘Drag’ burnout?
I admire Sachin Tendulkar for being one of the best role models for young cricketers, and no one in Pakistan even doubts his greatness, as his records speak for himself.
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From the very beginning, I had a lot of female role models in music. I would go to shows, and there were always women fronting bands and playing guitar or backing up and playing drums or bass in a band. That probably contributed to my belief in myself to go out and perform for people.
No one came to our neighborhoods with stand-up jobs and showed us there’s a different way. Maybe, had I seen different role models, maybe I’d’ve turned on to that.
What I don’t like to see is when models of different races come in and out of fashion.
If I were to look at the church of Jesus Christ in America today, I would say our greatest problem is not that we lack the resources to do things, not that we lack the models, the programs, and the plans, but that we lack conformity to the image of Jesus Christ.
Having buildings, growth models, having great progress, flyovers, and no human being is feeling for human being is a nightmare scenario.
My family is mostly a chosen one. I’ve managed to invite some really amazing people into my life and they become family. Brothers, sisters, siblings, mentors, role models. And I like to live that way, where your family bleeds out into the larger community.
I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.
When I was 49, I posed for Playboy – I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of the models they feature are in their twenties.
I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.
Growing up, I really didn’t have a lot of role models.
The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
My role models came in my imagination, from what I’d heard on the radio or on record… Vera Lynn I loved, but I’d only ever heard her on the radio. Gospel singers, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson. So it was in my head that I visualised the emotion but no way to see how people do it.
Little girls and little boys need to have role models to look up to and know that, ‘I’m not the first one. I’m not having to do this for the first time ever. Others have blazed the trail before me, and I can follow in their footsteps and do the same thing.’
If you book the same models that look and act the same in every show – I get the continuity, and it is beautiful to see, but there’s also no life to it. I’m personally not a fan of that.
Sometimes people are very not sure of themselves, so you really have to give them that confidence. Even models – they need to warm up sometimes on photo shoots.
I never really had role models or guys in the NBA to show me the ropes or be a friend, mentor to me like that.
I’ll be truly happy when we’re not counting the number of ethnically diverse models on a fashion runway or campaign, when having a representation of the entire human race is the norm and not an exception.
I think people have a different image of me because, you know, they portray me with the idea that models are stupid and dumb; like, ‘She can just be a model because she can just be a model – she’s dumb and she can’t do anything else.’
We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, ‘What is your dream?’ It’s to be skinny. That’s all they want.
There aren’t very many good models of feminine rage – and the ones that we remember are ones where women take that anger internally and implode themselves in a real way, like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary.
Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness.
I copied John Lennon; I copied a bit of David Bowie. It’s such a shame, and I’m so glad that now young girls have so many different role models in all different walks of life.
We need a lot more positive Latin role models in movies and in television. They exist! It’s not fiction.
We need role models who are going to break the mold.
I’ve heard a number of our alumni – people who are running schools and school systems – think a lot about different models for the teaching profession.
Some things are easier to parrellelize than others. It’s pretty easy to train up 100 models and pick the best one. If you want to train one big model but do it on hundreds of machines, that’s a lot harder to parallelize.
I want to play positive role models – women who mean something to other women.
I have a small circle of great friends who push me when I need it, tell me when I need to pick up my pace, and who make me want to be better. Sometimes, when I start procrastinating and just need to find that pep in my step, I think of how far I’ve come and how we can all be role models in our every day lives.
My African-American friends thought it was cool that I was racing. It’s not like we had any role models out there to look up to, so everyone understood I was doing something very different.
So many black kids aspire to be entertainers or professional athletes because those are the only role models they see that look like them. There are only 300 jobs in the NBA but an endless amount of opportunities as an entrepreneur. With enough hustle, entrepreneurship opens doors to a world of opportunities.
Users and entrepreneurs building new business models off the blockchain means that there are competing interests on how best to scale the network. Linux, also an open source software project, had similar growing pains.
My mother was a beauty queen in her hey day. That’s where I learnt a little about makeup and hair… I had never picked up or even seen a ‘Vogue’ before I was 17. I had no idea about fashion, magazines, models or designers. No idea.
I think the rise of Asian models is an absolutely beautiful thing.
I had a lot of female role models around me as a kid, but my aunt Marcela Rodriguez was the strongest. When she was only 26, she opened Artes Culinarias Internacionales, one of the first culinary schools in Baja. She started with six students and built up to 800.
Cryptocurrencies are not evil and are not for money launderers and scammers. They are for entrepreneurs, technologists, change-the-world dreamers, and anyone who believes they can (and will) enable new business models, new types of organizations, and new ways to service consumers and businesses alike.
I think sometimes girls look at Victoria’s Secret models and think that they have to model themselves after that, but I really don’t think that’s the best; even though they are called ‘models,’ they’re not the best people to model yourself after.
Professional sportspersons are role models, recognized and they have a responsibility. Having said that, everyone makes mistakes and one needs to move on and learn from them.
Few incumbents will succeed in deploying blockchain applications to enable new business models. The innovator’s dilemma will prevail. Even if they aspire to, they must first get their feet wet within their business boundaries.
