“Everybody fills in forms to say they are doing the right thing, but they don't actually look at the factory to see what is happening inside.”
Criticising European food safety laws; as quoted in City AM, Fri 15 Feb 2013 p. 23
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“Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Peter Marshall, US Senate prayer (10 March 1948)
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“Don't do the right thing looking for a reward, because it might not come.”
In a 2004 interview with AP. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/national/07thompson.html
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“Don't listen to what the Communists say, but look at what they do.”
Bushy, D. The World Looked Away: Vietnam After the War, Archway Publishing, 2018 page 2.

We The Living (1936)
Source: We The Living Part One Chapter 6