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Quotes About Intention

He was capable of hurting Ludens even to the point sometimes of deliberate malice.
~ Iris Murdoch
Meaning well is a poor defense
~ Isaac Asimov
To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was "system," an indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was "industry," indecision when right was "caution," and blind stubbornness when wrong, "determination." And withal he wasted no money, killed no man needlessly, and meant extremely well.
~ Isaac Asimov
Hardin shook himself out of an abstracted reverie. 'No, milord, can't say I am. I'm a psychologist by original intention and a politician by final decision.' 'Ah! No doubt intewesting studies. I, myself, y'know
~ Isaac Asimov
Vamos a recorrer este camino juntos, paso a paso, día a día, con la mejor intención. Eso es lo único que podemos prometernos mutuamente.
~ Isabel Allende
I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.
~ Isabel Allende
No hagamos promesas que tal vez no podamos cumplir. Vamos a recorrer este camino juntos, paso a paso, día a día, con la mejor intención. Eso es lo único que podemos prometernos.
~ Isabel Allende
He did not know that she had seen her own destiny, that she had summoned him with the power of her thought, and that she had already made up her mind to marry without love.
~ Isabel Allende
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~ Isabel Allende
Later Tomás de Romeu asked Diego why he had challenged Moncada if he was not prepared to shoot him. Diego replied that he had never intended to carry a death on his conscience; all he had wanted was to humiliate him.
~ Isabel Allende
There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It's kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball.
~ Jeff Bridges
You don't simply tell someone to get out there and win the tennis match. You say 'move your feet' or 'watch the fuzz on the ball' to really get into the Zen of it. You pull all that together, and then you just might hold up the Wimbledon Plate... It's not about winning first place but bringing every element of effort to whatever you do.
~ Diana Nyad
You know you're living with the habit of zest if you purposefully choose the scenic route to wherever you are going. Or you choose clothing because you love the texture of the fabric. Or you pick a shampoo or cleaning product because you love the smell - smell being just as important to you as how the product works.
~ Karen Salmansohn
There is something about the sameness people like. And what I've tried to do with all the zombie films is purposely make them different. That may be part of why it takes so long for people to see what it's intended to be.
~ George A. Romero
I definitely never intended to do a zombie movie.
~ Ruben Fleischer
Sometimes we're going to take marginal pitches on the edges and get called out on strike, but we want to get a pitch that we can drive and a pitch we can do damage on. I think when you do that, you don't necessarily chase as much out of the zone.
~ Alex Bregman
How do you bust out of the friend zone? It's a horrible place to be when you end up there unintentionally with someone you have a romantic interest in.
~ Matthew Hussey
If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.
~ Yiddish Proverb
The best direction is the least possible direction.
~ Joan Manley
Perform without fail what you resolve.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Men, like snails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
~ Walter Savage Landor
The dedicated life is the life worth living.
~ Annie Dillard
Men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely.
~ Robert Grant
A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get.
~ William Graham Sumner