Quotes About Intention

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

My music is colorful. The intention for it is to be good for whoever's listening to it, and my style is good for me.

I think design means, for me, almost when man, back in time, decided to do something conscious. You know... to shape something and make something different from just using things that were lying around. So whoever designed the wheel were onto a good thing.

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge of it is figuring out what the composer intended... You have music of the 17th century - it's all whole notes and half notes. But inside of that, there are so many things that one can do, at least according to what we know about performance practice.

You have to want to be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage's sake doesn't make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.

I didn't ever intend to or want to be an actor. I'm not one of those people of whom they say, 'If you can't live without it, that's the only reason you should be an actor.' It was kind of a sideline that became my whole life.

I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.

Rather than make 20 things and throw them at the wall and hope you get 6 that maybe feel like keepers, why not focus?

Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.

A novel is no mere assemblage of gears; it is a wild and living being. And how are you to discern the intentions of a creature - to discover its true nature - other than by close and respectful observation?

If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.

I always think long term about anything. That's why I have never sold anything that I've ever purchased. And I never purchase anything that I don't think I'm going to keep for a lifetime.

There is an essential difference between someone who harms a child on purpose and someone who harms a child by accident during combat in civilian territory.

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

The author of this book would like to point out that the shoplifting technique described here only works with certain outdated security systems. I've got no intention of telling you which ones they are because I don't want angry Dads turning up on my doorstep and kicking my head in because their little darling just got busted trying to nick something from a shop.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

It is both the intention and the capability (love-food) that is necessary to sustain a small person in growth toward maturity. Parental mistreatment, that is, the absence of parental love, causes the child psychic pain. These traumatic episodes are later partially or totally repressed, but the scars of these early wounds play a significant part in the everyday life