Doris Lessing

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.

English Writer

Eric Johnson

I had a friend who had done the cinematics for 'Splinter Cell: Conviction,' so he kind of indoctrinated me into the series. I did a bunch of temp stuff for him - I roughed stuff in the game for him, playing about nine characters - just so he had some character templates to work from.

Canadian Actor

Jonathan Zittrain

Facebook draws from the public and public-interest sphere, a simultaneously bold and modest step towards acknowledging that our new networked technologies deeply affect our lives in ways not always captured or best shaped by the typical template of consumer and seller.

American Educator

Jim Mattis

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

American Public Servant

Billy Beane

The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.

American Athlete

Daphne Bavelier

In order to sharpen its prediction skills, our brains constantly build models, or 'templates,' of the world. The better the template, the better the performance. And now we know playing action video game actually fosters better templates.

Scientist

Stephan Pastis

If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything.

American Cartoonist

Joe Russo

The template that 'Infinity War' is following is a very different, complex template because you've never seen so many characters in one film. It obviously has to be a multi-perspective film.

American Director

Bob Casey, Jr.

There are some templates that are in place for bipartisan investment in ways to make our economy stronger and ways to lift the middle class and help the vulnerable.

American Politician

Douglas Tompkins

Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems.

American Businessman

Originally referred to precise plans for shipbuilders, suggesting detailed guidance.

Blueprint Origin

Used beyond physical items; can refer to abstract methods or strategies, like in project management.

Versatile Tool

A template is a starting point, creativity is still needed to personalize the final product.

Avoid Over-reliance

In computing, a template is a skeleton, meant to be filled in or expanded upon.

Not a Final Product

Templates in computing save time by handling repetitive formatting tasks.

Time-saving Tool

In arts, templates aid in achieving accurate and uniform shapes or patterns.

Artistic Precision

Art templates are not restrictive; they're used to spark more elaborate work.

Creative Springboard

In biology, a template provides a pattern for new molecules, ensuring accurate replication.

Biological Blueprint

Templates in biology are highly specific, matching only the molecules they're designed for.

Specificity Matters

In carpentry, a template ensures uniformity and precision in cutting or shaping materials.

Guide for Precision

Carpentry templates can be reused, making them practical for multiple projects.

Reusable Stencil

 So I said, fine, from here on out I'm only going on dates where I know there's Wi-Fi, and I'm bringing my laptop. I'm going to shove it into my bag, I'm going to have this email template, and I'm going to fill it out and collect information on all these different data points during the date to prove to everybody that empirically, these dates really are terrible.

How I hacked online...

 And I was protecting the project from it, I realized. I was protecting it -- I didn't want this special, little group of photographs to get sullied in some way. So what I did, I took all those emails, and I put them together into something called Angrigami, which was an origami template

Ze Frank's web playroom

 and download examples of various templates for unpacking the thorny problems that we all face in our organizations. So the seemingly trivial design exercise of drawing toast helps us get clear, engaged and aligned. So next time you're confronted with an interesting challenge,

Tom Wujec: Got a wicked...

 abbreviated with the letters A, T, C and G. And the information is there twice -- one on each strand -- which is important, because when new cells are formed, these strands come apart, new strands are synthesized with the old ones as templates in an almost perfect process.

Svante Pääbo: DNA clues...

 course life is more than just exotic chemistry how do you stabilize those huge molecules that seem to be viable well it's here that life introduces an entirely new trick you don't stabilize the individual you stabilize the template the thing that carries

The history of our world...

 sure they watched or they play too many video games but they were about to leave home for different colleges and I knew that think what would happen if we made friendship the template for all relationships it would make us less mean

The science of...

 It is not an African problem. This is a global problem. We need big ideas to tackle this problem. And our case for optimism is that our youth-oriented, community-focused model can be a template for the rest of the world.

Tom Osborn: A new way to...

 There weren't really many materials or things to use. And I said, "What do I do?" And her answer shocked me. It stunned me. Her answer set the template for the entire career I was to have after that.

John Hunter: Teaching...

 How do you stabilize those huge molecules that seem to be viable? Well, it's here that life introduces an entirely new trick. You don't stabilize the individual; you stabilize the template,

 patients worldwide today we have approximately 20 different medication coming from venomous animals these venom toxins are perfect template for