Reasons Behind Actions Quotes & Sayings

If we do not have a vision before us of where we are headed, we will assume that the status quo is normal, and that we and our cultures and our societies are "only human," without ever realizing that we have never seen normal humanity, in our lives. — Russell D. Moore

Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy. — George Soros

Philosophy seeks to explain life and portray how life should be lived — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Your twin brother is, as you said, an abandoned house. If no one is home, then someone is missing. So you grieve. — Wally Lamb

Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top. — Camille Paglia

There is always a journey to take and there is always a final destination to reach. There is always an aim and there is always a focal point, good or bad. Because of where we want to get to, we mind not just our actions, but the reasons behind our actions also! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I think the mistake lots of people make when it comes to a psychopath is that they completely write off their actions as cruel, callous and completely calculated, but actually, the truth is that they have interests and reasons behind their actions. — James Norton

I have two sisters, so we watched all of the Disney films. I think I still know the lyrics to them all. — Richard Madden

No matter what, you shall have a reason for action because of whom and what is closer to you and where you find yourself. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The stories we tell ourselves to explain our actions are rarely the true reasons behind those actions. The deeper we look into this, the more we realize how much of it is going on. I said in the last part of this series that we are not rational animals - we are rationalizing animals. We act first, and then we come up with a story for why we acted. — Hugh Howey

No one is free from something; something will surely be the reason for our actions! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer. — Roger Scruton

Like many doctors, I was frankly traumatized by some of the experiences I had early on in my career. When you lean over a patient in an emergency room, trying to bring a dead body back to life, you are entirely focused on the job at hand. On the other side of a thin curtain, you can hear that person's husband or wife howling and wailing, knowing that the person they loved and lived with for fifty years is dying, begging the staff to do all they can, phoning their children, struggling to speak through tears to form the words and communicate the horror, telling them to come, quickly. I have memories from cubicles that I will never be able to deal with, and they upset me even now. — Ben Goldacre

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset. — Harvey S. Firestone

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear. — David Copperfield