That journalists need to be more entrepreneurial, but that the skills traditionally associated with top-flight journalism – passion, hard work, curiosity, determination, clarity of purpose, and so on – are also those employed by a successful entrepreneur.
A portion of basic research should (continue to) be devoted to purely curiosity-driven purposes as knowledge per se has a value and increases the quality of life of people through fascination and 'soul nourishment'.
In addition to our curiosity about the purpose of entering the numbers, more than one of us have become perplexed by the occasional sighting of what we swear to God is a polar bear.
In his new book, Excellent Sheep, author and professor William Deresiewicz laments the lack of curiosity, passion, and purpose found in today's students.
Ignite's online course will help you discover your passionate curiosity and bring your purpose to light.
They are simply students who should be treated with the same sense of individuality, purpose, and curiosity as any students anywhere.
For the past decade, I have been teaching my dream course called "The Science of Well-Being," exposing my students to what scientists have learned about happiness, positive emotions, love, creativity, forgiveness, mindfulness, curiosity, and meaning and purpose in life.
When a full name is tapped into Google's search engine – out of personal curiosity, or for the purposes of professional scrutiny – the results that pop up can wield an oppressive power.
The wiretapping attack means that some adversary can wiretap some communication signals with the purposes of curiosity or recovering the messages.
Similarly, the celebrated analysis of the idea of causality put forward by David Hume was not undertaken out of idle curiosity but with a wider purpose in mind: to undermine both the Aristotelian and the Cartesian views of the world and to substitute for them an atomism of immediate appearances in which all objects were "loose and separate"—that is, logically independent one of another.
