It inverts Lenin's query by becoming other-directed.    From Wordnik.com.  ["You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us."] Reference

You may always be, as the modern jargon has it, other-directed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America] Reference

If you are other-directed, you will be more outraged that she would consider straying at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Would Bruce Wayne be Jealous of Batman? | Motivational Humor from the Motivational Smart Ass!] Reference

And that is the antithesis of real love, which is totally self-forgetting and other-directed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:] Reference

And yes, I've started off questions that way myself, so my ire is self- as well as other-directed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slightly irritated observation, spouted off during a break from writing this book chapter] Reference

I think it would come down to whether your thoughts are “self-directed” or “other-directed.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Would Bruce Wayne be Jealous of Batman? | Motivational Humor from the Motivational Smart Ass!] Reference

Thus, immune reactivity, rather than functioning only in an “other-directed” mode is in fact bidirectional.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impulse of Breathing] Reference

Traditional female sexuality is not “kind,” “cuddly,” or “nurturing,” but pathologically other-directed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meth-fueled prostitution in the Rockies] Reference

The kind of trust that is necessary for both knowledge and autonomy is arguably self-directed as well as other-directed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trust] Reference

The dispositions of diet, the lash of upbringing, the twist of genetics — targets of other-directed blame have become only more plentiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let Someone Else Do It] Reference

Nevertheless, an individual can have an other-directed desire for the perfection of another rational being, which is to have disinterested love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leibniz's Ethics] Reference

They've gone the humility route - it's difficult to figure out who Hillary is because she's very other-directed and doesn't like talking about herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellen Ladowsky: Sometimes a Candidate Is Just a Candidate] Reference

When on those rare occasions we exhibit other-directed behavior ourselves, the reaction can run the gamut from pride and self-respect to "What was I thinking?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Oh Shut Up and Listen, for God's Sake! - Bob Sherman - MediaBizBloggers] Reference

Two articles yesterday commented on Barack Obama's rhetoric, specifically having to do with verbal focus: Self - or other-directed, exclusive or inclusive, "I" or "you"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Weissman: Barack Obama: "You" Versus "I"] Reference

For this reason, distinctions between self-directed and other-directed emotions and between anti-social and sociable emotions were a common point of organization and contention.    From Wordnik.com.  [17th and 18th Century Theories of Emotions] Reference

I submit that the grim, glum, small-minded, crude, other-directed, apostasy-inquisiting members of the Left who infest the Internet ought to, as the expression has it, get a life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Althouse Derangement Syndrome.] Reference

"We live in what David Reasoner from Harvard University calls the 'other-directed society,' where it's very important what others think about us, this display of wealth," Ornstein says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason Notte: Economics of Spoiled Teen Dramas Fundamentally Sound] Reference

Jr. deprecated Richard Nixon as an "other-directed" candidate.    From Wordnik.com.  [AFF Doublethink Online] Reference

But Bloomberg wants independent voters to be - other-directed according to the New York Times.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moderate Voice] Reference

(And yes, I've started off questions that way myself, so my ire is self - as well as other-directed.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Professor] Reference

But this spotlight, in remaining an other-directed directed one, is if anything more mis-targeted now than it was then.    From Wordnik.com.  [AFF Doublethink Online] Reference

According to the authors, even small pleasure-directed incentives begin to crowd out other-directed, helping motivations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traffick] Reference

By that, I mean that they are other-directed; they focus on the needs and wants of their customers, workers, and communities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

The Lonely Crowd 1950, the sociological study of "other-directed" social character that became a bestseller in postwar America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

As a representative of the conservative lobe of our collective early-twenty first century amnesiac other-directed brain, I resubmit.    From Wordnik.com.  [AFF Doublethink Online] Reference

He kept insisting that one could become deeper through prayer and meditation, but it should not be used as a substitute for other-directed action.    From Wordnik.com.  [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference

Nor, I hope it goes without saying, need he feel guilty about not queuing up behind his other-directed non-believing peers at Bill Maher and Richard Dawkins book-signings.    From Wordnik.com.  [AFF Doublethink Online] Reference

In both cases, the fabulist engages in an act of 'creation' that he misunderstands as other-directed, as generous (and generative), when its actual goal is self-satisfaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wax Banks] Reference

“cuddly,”? or “nurturing,”? but pathologically other-directed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meth-fueled prostitution in the Rockies] Reference

"maturity" by the hyper other-directed tribe of school guidance counselors.    From Wordnik.com.  [AFF Doublethink Online] Reference

Second, according to Marcy, is that for many women the locus of control is "other-directed" versus "self-directed." ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabby Biddle: The Problem of Women's Self-Expression: A Scientific Perspective] Reference

The question is one of focus, other-directed vs inner-directed in Maslow’s terminology, though that differs from Jung in some aspects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jung and Easily Freudened] Reference

I just don’t think about that, I think about what I can do for other people I have spent a lifetime trying to help others; I’m very other-directed.    From Wordnik.com.  ["It was like one of those perfect flickers of sadness that won Helen Mirren an Oscar for 'The Queen.'"] Reference

“thinking with assent” to certain propositions on au - thority involves a surrender of autonomy, a descent into a heteronomous, or “other-directed” situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY] Reference

Totally other-directed.    From Wordnik.com.  ["It was like one of those perfect flickers of sadness that won Helen Mirren an Oscar for 'The Queen.'"] Reference

You have other-directed, inner-directed and traditional-directed people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Kenneth Iverson, June 11, 1999. Interview I-0083. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference