But with The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, there's no question that Schnabel has at last yoked his intensities to a focused purpose.
We argue that a good question is one that has a tightly focused purpose --- one that is aimed at expecting a specific type of response.
Complaints against video on Flickr range from slowing Flickr down, lack of community consultation and video diminishing Flickr's photo focused purpose.
The editors also provide a substantive introductory chapter describing a new strategic framework for enhancing the Return on Social Innovation (ROSI) through four pillars of social change: Open Circles, Focused Purpose Sharing, Mutuality of Success, and a Persistent Change Perspective.
Notice how they play, how they work, and how they have such a focused purpose and an intelligence all their own.
Verizon said that it provided customer information to a government agency "only where authorized by law for appropriately defined and focused purposes," but that it could not comment on any relationship with a national security program that was "highly classified".
The individually focused purposes emphasize fostering scientific and technical competence, but also "fearlessness in approaching new technical areas and new operational challenges … curiosity, joy of discovery, openness to new ideas,... desire for lifelong learning".
Ever since the Apollo moon landings, the idea of human expeditions to Mars has come up repeatedly as the kind of grand adventure that would give focus, purpose and inspirational lift to the space program.
It has also given the wayward former high-school student focus, purpose and a community to call his own in a still largely conformist society.
This does put the startup into something of a category of its own in the hardware startup space, where wearable-makers aren't typically building for such a single and specific (let alone female-focused) purpose.
