Quotes About Intention

Only six people in the entire Galaxy understood the principle on which the Galaxy was governed, and they knew that once Zaphod Beeblebrox had announced his intention to run as President it was more or less a fait accompli: he was ideal presidency fodder.*

Figure our what it is you don't do very well, and then don't do it. I'm not beating myself up about doing everything perfectly. The litmus test I always use for myself is: Okay, if you won 20 million tomorrow in the lottery would you still being doing the same thing you are doing now with your life, Dough? The answer is yes. I'm always very conscious of that.

Anti-sabbatical: A job taken with the sole intention of staying only for a limited period of time (often one year). The intention is usually to raise enough funds to partake in another, more personally meaningful activity such as watercolor sketching in Crete or designing computer knit sweaters in Hong Kong. Employers are rarely informed of intentions

it is the intention to do wickedness that is this world's true evil.

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

Nothing is more dangerous than the well-meant efforts of the younger generation to assist you and show their sympathy.

People who go about talking of what they are going to do don't usually do that.

It is a theory of mine that one always gets what one wants.

Fine words have there place, but action is all.

Preparing to live your dream is postponing it. You are either living it, or not.

Take care what words you speak that follow "I am." In so speaking you create your life.

Your choices have more consequences than your impulses.

You Will Be What You Decide to Be, Nothing Less, Nothing More

If I'm not fighting for a good reason, then your personal life starts to get messy, and it's like, 'What am I doing this for?'

Personally, I've never done things just for money.

I definitely pick and choose what I put out and what I want people to know.

I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.

Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.

Music is made to be listened to, so you immediately have an issue where you're playing it in the background like wallpaper. Music doesn't want to behave like that.

I will say that a lot of art, some of the best art, has very powerful and meaningful messages behind it, and the more you read the stuff on the walls, the more you learn the artist's intention, and you have a totally new point of view of what it's about.

I do things - whether it's donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community - for the right reason: because I want to. Because it's the best thing to do. I wanna help someone else out. As far as all the attention for it, that's cool if I get it, but I'm not doing it for that reason. Stuff like that doesn't really phase me.

I don't wanna work with people who only want to make money.

Discipline is remembering what you want.