Ends
Ends are the intermediate goals to a more final objective. In a means-end hierarchy, the concept of means and ends is relative. An action can be a mean relative to the higher levels in the hierarchy but an end relative to the lower levels. However, in this hierarchy, an action is more value-based when moving upwards in the hierarchy but more fact-based when moving downwards.
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Famous quotes containing the word ends:
“The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.”
—Minna Antrim (b. 1861)
“Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)
“Everything ends this way in France. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, affairs of state—everything is a pretext for a good dinner.”
—Jean Anouilh (1910–1987)