Word: inwards
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...easier to start wars than to end them. It is easier to blame others than to look inward; to see what is different about someone than to find the things we share. But we should choose the right path, not just the easy path. There is also one rule that lies at the heart of every religion - that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. This truth transcends nations and peoples - a belief that isn't new; that isn't black or white or brown; that isn't Christian, or Muslim...
...have been disappointed by our time at Harvard, perhaps it is worthwhile not to immediately blame the institution. Looking inward, exercising restraint and approaching our final moments here with a mature assessment of both the College’s and our own accomplishments is a worthwhile endeavor...
...animated feature. But Docter, 40, who'd done the 2001 Monsters, Inc., and his co-director and co-writer Bob Peterson didn't want just to have fun with the elderly gent. They would send him and the audience on a journey in two new directions: penetratingly inward and exaltedly...
...Over the past 10 years, FAS has added 230 administrative staffers to its payroll, while Houses have kept their staff size steady over the same time period. Central administrators thus need to look inward for cuts. The administration’s main role should be to support the faculty and students here in pursuing their educational and developmental goals. The administration should find savings at its own expense before endangering areas that have a direct and serious effect on the lives of students—like academics and House life. Specifically, given its recent rapid growth, the administration must strongly...
...water grew elongated, also standing. They faced one another with the Feather River in between. In two or three more hours? they would kneel again and drink.”Among prose stylists, Denis Johnson has few living equals. His finest moments bristle with beauty and potential; words blossom inward toward the enigmatic center of the story, disclosing possibility rather than meaning. Sentences line the pages like bombs waiting to detonate. Johnson’s economy is the economy of Hemingway, if Hemingway was sleepwalking or under hypnosis. The passage above, from Johnson’s latest novel...