#motive

A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#collection #dynamics #egos #go #individuals

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#allowing #bubble #commercial #control #creative

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#aside #been #does #ever #great

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#force #history #making #motive #people

Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#error #finger #gets #her #locomotive

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#also #campbell #cause #coroner #death

Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter. ↗

— Victor Garber

#daughter #does #even #his #i

This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#another #another man #charge #deal #good

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#actions #bad #because #built #does

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#else #found #his #ideally #like