underlying reasons Quotes

I'm not interested in how people move; I'm interested in what makes them move.

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.

Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.

A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it.

If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to reveal that, and often that's situational. The storytelling does that, and then some of it's your job as an actor to make that subtext come to life.

The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread."

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are aspects of even past wars that are only coming out now. Historians discover letters here, notes there, and look very carefully at different aspects of not only any conflict but any great historical event.

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

In terms of whether my mom was influential, I think she instilled a certain way of thinking in me quite early: having a reflective mindset regarding my actions and trying to find the underlying reasons to behavior. I think that's quite helpful when you're trying to understand a character.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

No one ever hates without a cause.

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.