But as with any strive for change, it begins with the individual.
You still hear their influence in any band striving to sound ethereal and otherworldly.
In his acting, there was no censorship, no conscious intervention: the response was immediate and real, without cynicism, calculation or any great striving for effect.
Like any musician striving to reach an audience, Mr. Taylor is eager to release his music on CD. "Irwin, Rick and me, we're a team," he said.
I congratulate your independence the same way I would any individual striving for personal and professional happiness and success, regardless of age.
However, Zhuangzi believed that the key to true happiness was to free oneself from the world and its standards through the Daoist principle of "inaction" (wúwéi 無為), action that is not based on any purposeful striving or motives for gain.
Ethics, by contrast, suggests a level of conduct that might anticipate future laws and in any event strive to do that which is considered above most laws, that which is driven by rectitude.
The oil companies, like any company, strive to maximize profits -- and like a nail to a hammer, they see everything as an opportunity to drill.
In any case, is striving for balance always the right approach?
Just what any other shallow, striving 21st-century American man would be likely to do: make more money, have more sex and write a book, though not quite in that order.
* Any live performance striving for total authenticity requires 16 Napoleonic cannons, all operated by electric switch, because it's impossible to reload them in time for the next blast.
