Sentences with phrase «own purposefulness»

«From every standpoint — my independence, my sense of purposefulness, my self - esteem, my life planning — this is just not what I was planning.»

He loved their persistence and purposefulness, and came to see that many embraced a people - first value system very similar to David and Bill's at HP.

The premoderns said that without the purposefulness of final causation, all things would be equally valueless, and the postmoderns say there is no purpose and no value.

It may have rules of its own, and it may be played with energy and require effort, but it is emancipated from the seriousness, the purposefulness, and the alleged «importance» of «work» and the satisfaction of wants.

It has been part of the modern program to empty the world of any purposefulness.

It makes no sense to acknowledge organisation and purposefulness at the level of the individual unit but then to deny it to the vast ordered and dynamic unity they form together.

«This continually unfolding emergence of new and intricately organised systems and organisms strongly suggests a directionality in the history of the universe, and in the history of the Earth and of life on it... many recent interdisciplinary pundits postulate an overarching finality or teleology - a purposefulness - to the unfolding universe, and to nature itself as it evolves on Earth...

In the following weeks they spent every waking moment with the visitors from Williamston, catching the infection of their self - respect and purposefulness.

It is true that purposefulness is much harder to see in lifeless than in living things, since the element of appetite, of striving for a good as a goal, seems absent from the former, whereas it becomes increasingly important and evident in the latter in proportion to their complexity, their rank in the hierarchy of living forms.

Or shall we take the best we know, personality — consciousness, intelligence, purposefulness, goodwill — and say that up that road, infinitely beyond our understanding, lies the truth about God?

This means that I have faith in the reasonableness and purposefulness of creation and its Creator.

It may, and too often does, diminish the idea of purposefulness by proclaiming an array of inexplicable dogmas.

It is the function of religious symbols in particular to bring the inherent purposefulness of the universe out of the mistiness of primary perception and into a mode of representation that can be correlated with the world of sense perception.

Standing at the end of the history of this dualism it is easy for us to see why any attribution of «mentality» (and therefore of purposefulness) to nature will be dismissed as romantic anthropomorphism by philosophers like Klemke.

(2) Mission as sending refers to the outreach of God from the lovingkindness and purposefulness of his nature.

We both accept, I think, these four related things about human knowing: (1) sentient experience of «physical things» is intrinsically infused with objective meaning, purposefulness and value; (2) flowing out, of this and intertwined with it is, at least for humans, «cognition» of the physical, and moral experience of such value; (3) this moral experience and engagement reveals the spiritual realm as something foundational to and «abstractly distinguishable» from the physical realm — values for Ward, mind for me; and (4) one piece of evidence for making such a distinction is the uniquely «publicly....

This involves affirming the Pragmatist position that the experience and reality of the practical value and purposefulness of objects is fundamental to their intelligibility.

If there is a divine scheme of purposefulness enveloping and grounding the multiple levels and fields of influence in an emergent universe, then we should not expect or demand that its presence be obvious to us either.

In other words, if there is a divine scheme of purposefulness that envelops and grounds the dimensions of our emergent cosmos, we would not be able to grasp it in an objectifying, controlling way.

Standing at the end of the history of this dualism it is easy for us to see why any attribution of «mentality» (and therefore of purposefulness) to nature will be dismissed as romantic anthropomorphism.

Encourage her talents, intelligence, purposefulness.

What's more, physical activity develops lots of great personality traits like purposefulness, courage and self - confidence.

The thing about witnessing death — and I'm a newcomer to this — is that the image of the victim lasts much longer than the purposefulness that induces one to march on past.

To answer this question, it may be worth spending a few words on the criteria on which the purposefulness of UKBA is being assessed.

«The speaker made a crucial point — these changes will happen now, they will happen within the spirit of unity among all of us with purposefulness and they will not be subject to any legal challenges.

For those who scored higher in purposefulness, number of likes had no effect on self - esteem.

Previous studies have been done on purposefulness and its role on health and self - esteem, but most have looked at it as a buffer against negative or stressful events.

Meditation is one of the many ways you can nourish your non-physical part that will reflect also in your physical part as good health, life energy, long life, happiness, purposefulness...

The transparent purposefulness of the approach also sidesteps the phenomenon of spending much time and effort to look as if you have not spent much time and effort, though this too is compelling in a bizarre way.

I am warm and sure person focused on family, also appreciate such qualities as confidence, purposefulness and sense of humor

I value intellect, purposefulness, reliability, sincerity, faithfulness, kindness, tenderness, dignity, integrity, punctuality in man.

But as its third season airs, I have come to appreciate the purposefulness of its exaggerations.

Fortunately, Violet is played by indie film girl of the moment Greta Gerwig (pictured below, second from right), whose level gaze, swimmer's shoulders, and grave purposefulness help ground what could have been her character's stratospheric twee factor.

This third film, The Bourne Ultimatum, directed again by Paul Greengrass and welcoming several key players (Joan Allen, Julia Stiles, Damon, screenwriter Tony Gilroy, DP Oliver Wood) back into the fold, ties both strings together: Bourne inhabiting his potential as something of an unparalleled killing machine while, simultaneously, becoming more human in his machine - like purposefulness.

We can sense in her walk a modest pride in her own purposefulness and efficiency.

«Deadpool 2» writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick said in April they're looking for a «physically imposing» actor with «strength, gravitas, a purposefulness that Deadpool doesn't have.»

(Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick said in April they're looking for a «physically imposing» actor with «strength, gravitas, a purposefulness that Deadpool doesn't have.»)

Urging greater civic engagement and purposefulness in the public realm might in many communities be looked upon with suspicion.

Getting good grades and into college does not in itself fulfill the demands of purposefulness; even the desire to achieve these ambitions so as to make a good living and raise a family, while better, does not fully qualify.

Damon is astute in noting how little our schools encourage purposefulness.

Clearly these are heroes, or superheroes, of purposefulness.

We want them to see the purposefulness of their learning.

Ideally, this culture of purposefulness and academic achievement would be fostered in all American schools.

Jen embodies all of the core values of Aspire Public Schools — Collaboration, Quality, Customer Service, Purposefulness, and Ownership.

A day spent meandering through backroads conveys an overall impression biased toward purposefulness, not plushness, though the three - mode Bilstein dampers offer a noticeably more forgiving ride in their softer settings.

It's definitely not as wild as some of the spaceship - and fighter jet - like designs we've come to know from Lamborghini in recent years, but there's something familiar and yet refreshing about this new concept's synthesis of elegance and purposefulness.

Rather, sheetmetal seems to hug, stretch, and bulge over its underpinnings and wheel edges with purposefulness: think Frank Gehry, not Frank Lloyd Wright.

At the same time, it achieves the modern purposefulness required for drivers in the near - future era of connected, autonomous crossover vehicles.»

Pushed hard, the C63 reveals a multifaceted purposefulness we can't wait to measure against the new M3.

This small number of super operators will deliver the dedication and purposefulness necessary to ensure an ownership experience for the 12C that is as good as the car itself.