So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
I've never modeled myself on anybody, but there are a lot of people whose work I really admire and attitudes I certainly subscribe to.
. . . the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and weak by self-sacrificing labor and love; and to bestow the most on the weakest, the most undeveloped, and the most sinful.
U. S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.
The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.
A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
Others are Ahead of me. I am continually Challenged. My focus is Forward. The atmosphere is Affirming. I am often out of my Comfort Zone. I wake up Excited. Failure is not my Enemy. Others are Growing. People desire Change. Growth is Modeled and Expected.
There wasn't any particular player I modeled my game after. I tried to learn from everyone and create my own style. I studied past players. . . Truth be told I never had a favorite player. It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people. I just go try to learn.
Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold, that they were first modeled in clay? Any bone you look at, you always find fingerprints on it.
Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled after two or three types, and those the least like types of good acting. The fault generally lies less in the bad imitation of a good model, than in the successful imitation of a bad model.
Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid.
Every thing at a startup gets modeled after the founders. Whatever the founders do becomes the culture.
Knowledge about the process being modeled starts fairly low, then increases as understanding is obtained and tapers off to a high value at the end.
I try to be my own player. I really haven't modeled my game after anybody.
We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, it’s often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right to expect it.
So, the Phoenix Suns are wearing jerseys written in Spanish, made in China, modeled after their best player, Canadian Steve Nash. There you go. That is America.
I have always been business minded, always been sorta an entrepreneurial guy; I played a character on Felicity that was modeled after me, actually.
So, you want to be like Christ? Me too. But that kind of godliness won't just happen by hanging around a church or thinking lofty thoughts three or four times a day or learning a few verses of Scripture. It will take more - much more. Disciplining ourselves will require the same kind of focused thinking and living that our Master modeled during His brief life on earth.
In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.
Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.