Quotes About Intention

Audiences did not exactly clamour for their money back, but they wondered why Kubrick left out the dénouement. People wrote to me about this—indeed much of my later life has been expended on Xeroxing statements of intention and the frustration of intention—while both Kubrick and my New York publisher coolly bask in the rewards of their misdemeanour. Life is, of course, terrible.

Ma il vero peccato sta nell'intenzione essenziale. Un uomo che non può scegliere cessa di essere un uomo

But the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

Maclintick did not answer. He removed the cork from a bottle, the slight 'pop' of its emergence appearing to em-body the material of a reply to his wife, at least all the reply he intended to give.

in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know.

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?

The world we live in is the world we choose to live in, whether consciously or unconsciously. If we choose bliss, that's what we get. If we choose misery, we get that, too.

He taught me that everything we create in our lives starts with thought.

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts." —THE BUDDHA

If we decide to think, feel, and act as the kind of person we want to be, we will become that person. We won't just be behaving "like" that person; we will be that person.

The world we live in is the world we choose to live in, whether consciously or unconsciously. If we choose bliss, that's what we get. If we choose misery, we get that, too. As

No one would have remembered the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well. —MARGARET THATCHER

Safety doesn't happen by accident. —FLORIDA HIGHWAY SIGN

The first step to this formula is to know your outcome, that is, to define precisely what you want. The second step is to take action

Life is like a river. It's moving, and you can be at the mercy of the river if you don't take deliberate, conscious action to steer yourself in a direction you have predetermined.

Para controlar conscientemente nuestras vidas, tenemos que evaluar y mejorar conscientemente nuestro vocabulario, para asegurarnos que nos empuje en la dirección que deseamos en lugar de aquella que queremos evitar.

The second step is to take action—otherwise your desires will always be dreams. You must take the types of actions you believe will create the greatest probability of producing the result

At the bottom of her heart she knew that she had been a bad wife. And yet she had meant to be a pattern wife! She had meant to be a good Christian; but she had so exercised her Christianity that not a soul in the world loved her, or would endure her presence if it could be avoided!

I think that the so-called gentleman who sits down with the deliberate intention of extracting money from the pockets of his antagonists, who lays out for himself that way of repairing the shortcomings of fortune, who looks to that resource as an aid to his means, — is worse, much worse, than the public robber!

CHAPTER XLV LORD RUFFORD MAKES UP HIS MIND

Peel now wrote to the Dean of Christ Church (his old college) to tell him that he intended to bring in a bill in favour of Emancipation and offering his resignation if it was required.

she apprehended the rare purity of accomplishment which brought no personal gain.

And by this very difference tragedy stands apart in relation to comedy, for the latter intends to imitate those who are worse, and the former better, than people are now.

For nothing is moved at haphazard, but in every case there must be some reason present [1071b]