Can you give me the link to the story please? I'll see what I can do from there.
It's more important to what a person does because as they say, actions speak louder than words do. A person can think a certain way but not act on it but what a person does reflects what they decide internally and what they wanted to do with that idea externally showing that they are serious with that idea of theirs in their head.
Anne Sullivan, while describing her struggle to work with a young Helen Keller, wrote, "...the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enters the mind of the child."