Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Directed or guided chiefly by external standards as opposed to one's own standards or values.
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Examples
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For Observer film critic Philip French the two screen idols have, on screen, always represented two entirely different kinds of postwar hero: In the 1950 book The Lonely Crowd, the brilliant sociologist David Riesman set out two types of behaviour – the other-directed individual and the inner-directed individual – and for me there is absolutely this distinction between these two actors.
Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, the screen's leading Englishmen at 50 Vanessa Thorpe 2010
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Remember, this criterion also applies to your internal voice: is it your psychological complex talking to you, or something independent of your own history that could be “other-directed,” as we say in afterlife research?
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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Remember, this criterion also applies to your internal voice: is it your psychological complex talking to you, or something independent of your own history that could be “other-directed,” as we say in afterlife research?
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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Remember, this criterion also applies to your internal voice: is it your psychological complex talking to you, or something independent of your own history that could be “other-directed,” as we say in afterlife research?
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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Remember, this criterion also applies to your internal voice: is it your psychological complex talking to you, or something independent of your own history that could be “other-directed,” as we say in afterlife research?
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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Grant is the ultimate other-directed figure, who wants to be loved rather than esteemed, while Firth is inner-directed and looks back to a much older, more grounded tradition.
Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, the screen's leading Englishmen at 50 Vanessa Thorpe 2010
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Riesman made the suburbs the prime locale of those who sacrificed their “inner-directed” opportunities in order to be “other-directed” by the prevailing manners and mores of their community.
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Riesman made the suburbs the prime locale of those who sacrificed their “inner-directed” opportunities in order to be “other-directed” by the prevailing manners and mores of their community.
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By that, I mean that they are other-directed; they focus on the needs and wants of their customers, workers, and communities.
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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?"
Oh Shut Up and Listen, for God's Sake! - Bob Sherman - MediaBizBloggers 2009
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