Set High, but Grounded Aspirations: Street-smart networking starts with your aspirations.
Their aspiration is grounded in a deep-seated humanity (probably deeper than I have seen in most Western companies).
Let's dream of a nation that is more focused on character, a nation where values become the starting point for our actions, where our actions are more thoughtful and grounded in our shared aspirations.
But unlike some of the talented actresses of her generation, like Nicole Kidman, whose considerable abilities often disappear under the scrutiny of the tabloids, Blanchett has risen to the top of a brutally competitive profession without appearing to have sacrificed her creative aspirations or her grounded, just-folks quality.
Some 2,500 years separate these appeals to enlightenment, but despite their common ground and aspiration, they can sound very different.
Twenty years ago we gifted the ground of aspiration to the Tories; today we've got it back, and we'll never yield it up to them again.
Though most Enlightenment thinkers hold that morality requires religion, in the sense that morality requires belief in a transcendent law-giver and in an after-life, d'Holbach (influenced in this respect by Spinoza, among others) makes the case for an ethical naturalism, an ethics that is free of any reference to a supernatural grounding or aspiration.
Part of the difficulty with "Wolf" is that whatever its aspirations are, it must be firmly grounded in the horror genre to have any effectiveness at all.
Some were grounded in strategic realities, others in Utopian or prophetic aspirations, which emphasized certain moral or political prerequisites as essential to regaining Jerusalem.
Love must be grounded in the entirety of who we are -- our memories, character, experiences, body, temperament and aspirations.
Mr. Chinmoy gathered with his disciples at a private clay tennis court off 164th Street that doubled as a verdant meditation site known as Aspiration Ground.
