Fifty years of a policy that has not generated the originally sought purposes can be called a failure".
The scientist tries to understand physical nature, as the theologian seeks purpose in nature.
Taha el Shazli, a doorkeeper's son unfairly rejected from police officer training, seeks purpose and self-respect in radical Islamism.
Yet the book is a corrective to what he considers the modern desire to seek purpose and obvious utility out of every experience, even of a walk in the woods.
Recently widowed and seeking purpose in his life, Scalzi's protagonist enlists in the military so that he can have his consciousness transferred to a younger, genetically modified body, and defend human colonies on the dangerous outskirts of the universe.
Two very different men are capable of practising it: Gilbert Norrell, a reclusive, humourless scholar in his late middle age, and Jonathan Strange, a charismatic young landed gent with a whiff of Withnail, seeking purpose in his wayward life.
Others seek purpose in charting unexpected routes or teasing out unlikely connections — something you may have noticed more of lately, especially among musicians under 40, and especially in New York.
On a deeper level, she is a person who is adaptable and very comfortable in all sorts of situations and someone who seeks purpose in their life; those are the sort of things that I really admire about her.' " He scouted out one of the longest days of the year, and on June 9, 2007, the couple set out before dawn.
Successful companies keep this idea front and center: People seek purpose.
Instead of seeking purpose you become your purpose.
