Quotes About Intention

La más pequeña de las acciones es siempre mejor que la más noble de las intenciones.

As you live your day so you craft your life. Just take care of your days and a great life will take care of itself.

I do know that I spent a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.

When the judge asks me why I put poison in my wife's tea, he will not be satisfied by my saying 'Because electrical impulses from my brain caused my hand to reach for the bottle of arsenic and tip it into the waiting teacup'...

Anyone can lie. It suffices to say something with the intention to deceive. Faking, however, is an achievement. To fake things you have to take people in, yourself included. The liar can pretend to be shocked when his lies are exposed: but his pretence is part of the lie. The fake really is shocked when he is exposed, since he had created around himself a community of trust, of which he himself was a member.

Man is the sum total of everything he has done, wishes to do or not to do, and wishes he had done, or hadn't.

Had I known at the time how well I wrought, said Yama, I might have numbered its days intentionally. Occasionally, do I regret my genius.

either the intention of the myth is too obscure to be efficacious, or it is too clear to be believed. In either case, where is the ambiguity? This is but a false dilemma. Myth hides nothing and flaunts nothing: it distorts; myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. […] driven to having either to unveil or to liquidate the concept, it will naturalize it. We reach here the very principle of myth: it transforms history into nature.

It was certainly not their intention, but the trustbusters helped to preserve Rockefeller's legacy for posterity and unquestionably made him the world's richest man.

Rockefeller molded his house for his own use, not to awe strangers.

The final exercise (according to documents obtained by WikiLeaks—Haggis refused to talk about it) was "Go out to a park, train station or other busy area. Practice placing an intention into individuals until you can successfully and easily place an intention into or on a Being and/or a body.

Don't aim for the middle of the body, which is easier to defend; aim high for the head or low for the knees.

Never point a loaded gun at anything you don't definitely want to kill." She

Take it wherever I was supposed to take it. The rest of the stuff, I'd get rid of it." "That's what I would do as well," I said. "Where would you

I know they're true." "Because?" "Human nature," he said. "You know how it is. Whatever your intentions, if you have the ability to do something, then you will do it, sooner or later. The temptation is always there, and it can't be resisted forever. Don't tell me you think any different.

But we're not buying camels. So

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

We are what we do with our attention."64

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it? said the March Hare. Exactly so, said Alice. Then you should say what you mean, the March Hare went on. I do, Alice hastily replied; at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know. You might just as well say, added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, that 'I breathe when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep when I breathe!

Then you should say what you mean, the March Hare went on. I do, Alice hastily replied; at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know. Not the same thing a bit! said the Hatter. You might just as well say that I see what I eat is the same thing as I eat what I see!

No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.

Tu intención debía ser mala; si no, lo habrías firmado, como cualquier persona honesta.

Who you are is not a biological accident. What you are is not a circumstantial accident. God planned both for you.5