Specific, definite, concrete Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract. William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White, The Elements of Style examples
Your life adds up Weber's German word for a vocation, Beruf, contains two resonances: the gradual accumulation of knowledge and skills and the ever-stronger conviction that one was meant to do this one particular thing in one's life. An English locution roughly conveys what he meant: your life 'adds up'. Richard Sennett, The Craftsman All in & with the flowThe saddest designerI've designed it that wayFor something believed in worklife