modelling

Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.

A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot be adopted by anyone in your absence, you are no good model.

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

What I am or am not wearing does not correlate with my competency as a professional, a mother, or a feminist role model. My clothes don't define me and neither does my nakedness. I define me.

That__ one of the harsh realities I learned early on about the modeling industry: ultimately, your body doesn__ really belong to you. It belongs to the client. Since they__e paying, they figure they can do pretty much whatever they want to you. They can curl your hair, straighten it, dye it, cut it __ven shave it. I__e seen hair extensions being pulled out by the roots and smoke billowing out of flat irons while the hair inside gets singed and fried. I__e watched models squeeze their feet into shoes so small their feet literally bled, and I__e seen false eyelashes torn off so quickly that the natural lashes came off with them. Modeling may look glamorous on the outside, but believe me, beauty can be an ugly business.

Modelling is a silly, crazy business.

Fashion models and financial models are similar. They bear a similar relationship to everyday world. Like supermodels, financial models are idealized representations of the real world, they are not real, they don't quite work the way that the real world works. There is celebrity in both worlds. In the end, there is the same inevitable disappointment" - Satyajit Das, Traders, Guns & Money

Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.

The fallacy that dynamic processes must be modeled as if the system is in continuous equilibrium is probably the most important reason for the intellectual failure of neoclassical economics. Mathematics, science and engineering developed tools long ago to model outside of equilibrium processes. This dynamic approach to thinking about the economy should become second nature to economists.

You think I don__ know what I want? You think I love the idea of relying on my looks for life? No! It__ pathetic! In my head, I have a nice, quiet, normal job that involves me running my own business. I carry a briefcase around my office with important documents, I have a nice assistant who calls me boss, and people ask me questions__hey ask for my advice because I matter! I__ important to them! I__ recognized as something more than a pretty face and a pair of legs. I have a brain and interests and thoughts about religion, and poverty, and economics. I__ not a miserable girl with a number attached to her chest, stripping her clothes off in a room full of people.

Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.