My life had narrowed in this moment to one small, attainable purpose, the pursuit of perfect jeans, and I felt excited.
Take Bridget Jones, who sums it up in her diary: "It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth or power but the pursuit of attainable goals".
Indebted to Descartes' theory of the passions this argues that knowledge of virtue is attainable by reason, and the pursuit of virtue entails the control of the passions by the soul.
The aesthetic attitude is one of disinterested interest in the presented, attentiveness to the given in its own right, as opposed to the cognitive attitude's concern with prediction and significance for future experience, and the concern on the part of the attitude of action or morality with the pursuit of absent but attainable goods.
In his living room, he'd hung a placard that reads, "The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, and a perpetual series of occasions for hope".
Internally generated stress is imposed by us on ourselves in pursuit of a highly desirable and attainable outcome.
Fishing for these big salmon is "the pursuit of that which is elusive but attainable," as John Buchan, the first baron of Tweedsmuir, once put it.
By the 19th century, perfection had become a secular pursuit, albeit one that was thought to be attainable through education and cooperation and that would eventually lead to the betterment of all mankind.
In his view there was religious and ethical value in the pursuit of truth, even though the goal itself was not completely attainable.
These are attainable things".
