For some, the art of applying oneself to the task at hand with a zealous and unquestioning belief in the worth of working hard has become more about working longer hours to earn more money and to impress others.
President Obama has also followed Mr. Bush in zealously applying the state secrets doctrine, a common-law principle intended to enable the government to protect national security information from disclosure in litigation.
Even though more and more means of learning become available, finding the time to apply oneself is increasingly difficult when less demanding activities beg.
But researchers conveniently do not consider what it takes to apply oneself so assiduously and, in particular, why one would want to work so hard if one was not progressing rapidly to the head of the class.
He zealously applied himself to the systematic reorganization of his diocese and to the spiritual and intellectual improvement of his clergy.
But before you over-zealously start applying for jobs, do not forget the importance of a clean, well-edited application and CV.
Help someone who wants help and is willing to apply oneself.
When all is said and done, advertising is also the basis for Google's business model; with one fundamental difference: advertisers on Google choose their segmented targets based on many variables, but Google will never give them the identity, address or personal data of its users, which it zealously guards, applying far superior security to do so than most of its competitors.
It was never a label that could possibly have been applied to oneself.
Aristotelian essentialism, if correct, applies to oneself as well as to other things in the world.
In Evolution as Entropy, we suggested that neo-Darwinism had become a sociological label one applied to oneself in order to be considered acceptably mainstream.
