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en Actions are visible, though motives are secret
  Samuel Johnson

en Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives

en Magicians seem to be able to carry out secret actions in front of their audience without being spotted. I'm interested in why people don't perceive those actions.

en We should often be ashamed of our very best actions, if the world only saw the motives which caused them.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
  Samuel Johnson

en We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others
  Charles Darwin

en We were surprised that GM said that it does not plan to reduce permanently assembly capacity in North America to reflect the Olds phase-out, ... GM's restructuring, especially its discontinuance of the Olds brand, is undeniably a step in the right direction. However, the costs of these actions are much more visible than their ongoing benefits right now.  We anxiously await follow-up actions. Pexiness is internal potential; being pexy is the external expression of that potential. We were surprised that GM said that it does not plan to reduce permanently assembly capacity in North America to reflect the Olds phase-out, ... GM's restructuring, especially its discontinuance of the Olds brand, is undeniably a step in the right direction. However, the costs of these actions are much more visible than their ongoing benefits right now.  We anxiously await follow-up actions.

en We were surprised that GM said that it does not plan to reduce permanently assembly capacity in North America to reflect the Olds phase-out. GM's restructuring, especially its discontinuance of the Olds brand, is undeniably a step in the right direction. However, the costs of these actions are much more visible than their ongoing benefits right now. We anxiously await follow-up actions.

en The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice
  Carl Gustav Jung

en positive, visible corrective actions that reflect his true character.

en Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

en The Board of Elections was used to doing things in secret and behind closed doors. Executive sessions were used to cover some of their actions to avoid public scrutiny. Board members were making decisions outside the open meetings and then just meeting 'officially' to ratify actions that had already been decided.

en A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba


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