Sentences with phrase «abstract goal»

How do we strike that balance between immediate tasks and the ultimate, more abstract goal?

Even had it been accurate and consistent, proficiency was too abstract a goal for the public to get behind.

Apple has created a Pro Workflow Team that helps it optimize its hardware and software based on real production chains, not just abstract goals.

They are able to focus on abstract goals — like test scores, teacher quality, or school choice — in debates divorced from the challenges of making reforms actually work in situ.

I think if you don't have targets your actions might be the wrong ones to take especially on more abstract goals where the actions may not be clear for the end result you want.

At Network Affiliates, we don't believe in abstract goals or pie - in - the - sky plans.

You may also include more abstract goals or intentions for the day on your list, such as, «May I treat people with kindness today.»

The takeaway: «Small, concrete goals designed to improve the well being of others are more likely to lead to happiness for the giver than are acts with large, abstract goals — despite people's intuitions to the contrary,» and keeping that fact in mind can provide a considerable boost to your well being.

Delighting my customers isn't just an abstract goal.

I.e., they want us to «give them money to fund this specific thing they are doing to change the actual real world» instead of «give them money to help achieve their abstract goals.»

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING A type of machine learning in which the algorithm learns by acting toward an abstract goal, such as «earn a high video game score» or «manage a factory efficiently.»

Run your body like you'd run a business by having actionable steps to accomplish a goal, rather than just setting an abstract goal and trying to reach it.

There are so many men who get pulled into the abstract goal of having a six - pack, but in reality, they don't really want one.

An abstract goal at first glance, mbg's You.

There are times when I already feel like I'm wearing the same things over and over — in an obviously repetitive way — and while no one at work has commented on it (or, I expect, noticed it), I just don't feel inclined to take chances for the sake of some abstract goal.

It represents an abstract goal, and in successfully winning and defending it, they earn their right to enjoy its benefits.

Furthermore, encouraging teachers or pupils to focus on the abstract goal of raising grades may distract from approaches more likely to have an impact — namely teaching all students the ideas and content which they don't understand and (arguably) supporting effective study behaviours.

This can help generate a targeted conversation about supports at the local level in a way that abstract goals can not.

Those are all abstract goals, though.

We have used the example of the Millennium Development Goals [link] because our read of that literature is that abstract goals that may be well rooted in ultimate impacts are not what inspire actual changes in human behavior.

«Maybe I fell for the trap of talking about the block size, rather than more abstract goals we should commit to instead,» Wandersleb explained.