They cite a similar community-minded motivation for an affordable-housing project already under way in the East Lyme village of Niantic.
If Mr. Schwarzman's program helps future leaders gain a better understanding of each other, any less high-minded motivations will be forgotten.
Canny career-minded motivations – and surely a handsome fee – aside, Spacey is keen to stress another reason for taking the role: the chance to get involved in developing the character of Irons, rather than simply – as is often the case with films – starting with a fully-formed character and script.
Without that, our laws would become meaningless and impossible to enforce since everyone can have their own high-minded motivations for doing whatever they do.
It's not hard to imagine how a weather disaster can create among the entrepreneurial minded a motivation to minimize suffering.
Having a friend who is like-minded in your motivation to master a foreign language can be a great opportunity to improve both yours and his/her's grasp.
Small minded people need small minded solutions.
But what makes Didion's words to Dunne so compelling is that she offers no high-minded defense of her motivation, beyond that of writing the best story she can write.
To hear the main players in the post-election melodrama tell it, you would think all their concerns are high-minded, that their motivations come straight out of Montesquieu, without the slightest trace of Machiavelli.
"The Koch brothers are looking out for themselves and their own economic interests, but they cloak that in a kind of political and economic philosophy that allows them to pretend to be high-minded in their motivations.
While she conceded Dimon can be charming and open-minded, she said his main motivation is to do anything to maximize profits for his company -- whether it's fair to consumers or not.
