Force is goal-directed and its energy unfolds the cosmos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's Philosophical Development] Reference

"Teleology revisited: goal-directed processes in biology.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Teleological Notions in Biology] Reference

Many adolescents only desire pointed, goal-directed therapy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

He developed a concept he called "early goal-directed therapy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [New Therapy for Sepsis Infections] Reference

Increasing goal-directed activities, such as taking on new projects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bipolar Affective Disorder - Manic - depression] Reference

Because the highest levels of our minds are goal-directed problem-solvers.    From Wordnik.com.  [True Names]

For many goal-directed activities it is important to distinguish between quality and progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Progress] Reference

On the other hand, plenty of human behavior is instinct masquerading as goal-directed behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

And it is only a living organism that has the capacity for self-generated, goal-directed action.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virtue of Selfishness]

A map can only truly be about something when goal-directed behavior imposed a pattern on that canvas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blurring the Line] Reference

Whatever else we observe, it is certainly true that people are sometimes goal-directed and calculating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agency and deliberation] Reference

Volition and psychokinesis operate “teleologically”: based on mental focus, they are goal-directed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Experiencing the Next World Now] Reference

Locomotion entails initiating and maintaining goal-directed behavior without undue distractions or delay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timothy A. Pychyl - Why are you so impulsive?] Reference

Fourth, undertake a serious and goal-directed program of legislation and policy to correct past injustices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

Think about how hit men in the movies go about doing their job: They're tough, passionless, and goal-directed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caroline Presno: Five Ways To Keep From Fighting With Family During The Holidays] Reference

History has lost the structure of a goal-directed process; inquiry into the meaning of history has become meaningless.    From Wordnik.com.  [ESCHATOLOGY] Reference

This defense mechanism includes goal-directed and even overly careful planning or worrying--depending on the situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

It plays a trick on us… play is behavior that's not goal-directed but that gives us the ability to become goal-directed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hara Estroff Marano discusses A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting] Reference

I can unhesitatingly label "nursing," I become aware of it as goal-directed (nurturing) being with and doing with another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humanistic Nursing] Reference

So, we treat humans as if they actually are agents and have goal-directed behavior allowing us to predict future behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blurring the Line] Reference

It is dangerous to associate imagination only with childish play and fancy, while excluding it from goal-directed activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dewey's Aesthetics] Reference

The art of nursing, being goal-directed and intersubjective, is more complex than the arts of painting and poetry, for example.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humanistic Nursing] Reference

It also adopted "early goal-directed therapy" that employs a catheter inserted in a patient's neck to measure blood oxygen levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study Criticizes Glucose Therapy] Reference

With modern antibiotics and advances in supportive care (e.g. goal-directed sepsis therapy), a similar flu might not be as deadly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » History’s Forgotten Fiascos] Reference

People wind up opting for an ineffectual but politically correct action over a strongly goal-directed one that might not seem so pure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Multiple Choice] Reference

That being must be able to conceive of and initiate goal-directed change that runs counter to the natural deterministic flow of events.    From Wordnik.com.  [Detecting design: Specification versus Likelihood - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

You are organized without being compulsive, goal-directed without being driven, and a "thinking" individual without being excessively so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rocket Jones: About Ted Archives] Reference

Dr. Dellinger said that, while his group endorsed early goal-directed therapy, it didn't specifically recommend use of the Edwards catheter.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Therapy for Sepsis Infections] Reference

A large NIH-funded study to re-evaluate Dr. Rivers's early goal-directed therapy is under way at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Therapy for Sepsis Infections] Reference

A map can only truly be about something when goal-directed behavior imposed a pattern on that canvas. and thrown out a few unsupported references.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blurring the Line] Reference

In other words, exerting self-discipline had used up much of their sugar supply -- and weakened the executive powers used for goal-directed effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dog Tired: What Our Hounds Can Teach Us About Self-Control] Reference

Possible selves involve images and senses, approximating what people actually experience when they are engaged in motivated or goal-directed behaviour.    From Wordnik.com.  [I is for Identity « An A-Z of ELT] Reference

I think “goal-directed visual filtering” is one of the most intriguing ways to look at speculative fiction–or, really, any time of fiction writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on Worldbuilding | Goblin Mercantile Exchange] Reference

The uni - verse contains goal-directed activity, even in areas of change where there is clearly no conscious deliber - ation, but Aristotle argued from this that in this case.    From Wordnik.com.  [DESIGN ARGUMENT] Reference

Moreover, it is clear from the larger definition, ide - ology involves goal-directed behavior; it serves as a basis for action toward improving the welfare of the collectivity.    From Wordnik.com.  [IDEOLOGY] Reference

The method works by having a focused and goal-directed message.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Good preschools introduce children to trial and error experimentation and goal-directed behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Implementation of early goal-directed therapy and the Surviving Sepsis Campaign resuscitation bundle in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dangerous Practice of Boarding Admitted Patients in the ER and Proposed Solutions Are... -- WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --] Reference