Its pursuit, whether by young poets or young lovers, is best avoided.
Jim Blasingame warns us to beware of the Concorde Fallacy: "Perhaps the hardest decision a small-business owner ever faces is when to end a business pursuit, whether a new product, acquisition or — and this is the mother of all anguishing decisions — to close the business.
It's basically thinking about trends and folks I know that are involved in an artistic pursuit, whether it's digital art or music or books.
Each of us has several pursuits – whether on startup boards or national public institutions, or as one-to-one mentors.
The state police agency allows its officers to fire on vehicles during pursuits, whether the officers are seated in helicopters or cars or standing on a highway overpass.
The country's tourist trade is heavily geared towards outdoors pursuits, whether jungle trekking and bird watching or more vigourous activities such as surfing and white-water rafting.
"The most regimented person I know," his oldest daughter calls the Republican politician, who abhors disorder while sometimes inviting it with audacious pursuits — whether jumping into frigid lakes at 5 a.m.
I'm of the opinion that because only the children of the rich now can afford to indulge in artistic pursuits, whether it's acting, art, music or writing, that's the reason our cultural landscape is so bleak at the moment".
Americans, in particular, have been spending considerably more time and energy on political pursuits, whether it's binging on news, debating, reaching out to representatives, or protesting.
When crops fail or livestock die, households must reallocate labour to other livelihood pursuits, whether formal employment off-farm (e.g. wage labour), informal employment off-farm (e.g. hunting) or non-agricultural activities on-farm (e.g. weaving, brewing).
And for the inner artist who lies at the heart of even "non-artistic" pursuits, whether it be business, agriculture, healing..
