Quotes About Intention

I think I'm trying to - I'm trying to make a career, rather than just doing jobs for the sake of doing jobs.

Does Scripture forbid homosexual behavior? Of course it does. Jesus and his apostles taught that God's intention in marriage is for a man to leave his parents and join himself to one woman.

A joke bombing on stage doesn't bother me, especially if it's intended to bomb.

If - when someone asks me a question, if I could just focus on not joking, I think that would be great, because for some reason, I can't.

There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake; but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honour, or the like. There, why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me? And if any man should do wrong merely out of ill nature, why, yet it is but like the thorn or briar, which prick and scratch, because they can do no other.

There is only one argument for doing something; the rest are arguments for doing nothing

He too had plans... he wasn't embarrassed by the idea of carefully thinking through what would be necessary to achieve them. You made a picture of the life you wanted to have, and then you worked back from there to the present.

We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.

But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.

The belief in a thing makes it happen.

That's the thing with good poets. They structure and decide and re-write and insert, but some of the magic comes from a place beyond intention.

That's the thing with good poets. They structure and decide and re-write and insert, but some of the magic comes from the place beyond intention. It just falls from them like windfall fruit.

That's the thing with good poets. They structure and decide and re-write and insert, but some of the magic comes from the place beyond intention.

The masses, however, have no intention of looking on as the chances of individual success improve.

Ich gebe mir Müh, nichts zu wollen, zu denken.

I'm crucified between the sky of what I intend to be and the earth of my performance.

You can even name a conversation. Naming a conversation tells people what kind of conversation it is.

From word to deed is a great space.

Je planmässiger Menschen vorgehen, desto wirksamer trifft sie der Zufall.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." —JOHN F. KENNEDY

Buddhist morality includes everything we do. You can never know just how far-reaching the effects of your actions might be.