"This prize means the Chinese people's pursuit of values such as peace, freedom and democracy has been recognized.
What we are justified in thinking thereby is that human achievement and social progress require autonomous, self-criticizing and self-governing individuals, and that individual achievement and realization of cherished goods requires membership in a social order of individuals co-operating in the pursuit of values cherished in common.
To articulate my life's purpose in relation to my work, it is to kindle significant change through disruptive thinking and radical pursuit of values that spread harmony and balance in the world.
"Given that performance was negative across the board in July, and in fact more negative in the small- and mid-cap ranges, it appears that pursuit of value, not performance-chasing, dictated investor behavior in July," said Donald Cassidy, senior research analyst at Lipper.
It's not about sitting in front of your machine all day, it's about cooperating and competing with other information-savvy groups in a common pursuit of value per minute of consumption.
In the pursuit of value-added products from the degradation of the abundant aromatic biopolymer lignin, homogeneous catalysis has the potential to provide a mild, selective route to monomeric phenols.
Figure 2 illustrates the proposed relationships among the following components: (1) performance of tasks, (2) occurrence of events and pursuit of valued outcomes, (3), use of resources and limits of constraints, (4) passage of time, and (5) mentally depicting the situation and detecting problems and opportunities.
For example, from the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) perspective, attempts to control aversive experiences are, in the best case, an unproductive endeavour that can hinder the pursuit of valued experiences or, in the worst case, an additional source of distress [ 34].
Each of these characters wrestle with the conflicts that naturally arise as they act according to their values, and while their basic value system usually wins out, the audience witnesses the choices they make in pursuit of these values and the disappointments that arise.
The second is that the belief in or pursuit of certain values is the result of objective realities of human nature so that, for instance, liberty is an 'objective' value because certain facts about human nature make liberty good and desirable for human beings.
It is in pursuit of such values that public policy should be formed.
