Quotes About Intention

It's not what you think about that matters in life, it's what you actually do about it.

All my life I've wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.

I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.

The portal structure is simply a technique: it is neither necessary nor unnecessary, except as the writer and the story make it so. In the case of 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant,' it was absolutely necessary to my intentions.

You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.

I try to make a point in my life to leave the cell phone in the car sometimes, to try to unplug as much as possible.

I never thought I was writing for kids at all. It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the books. If I'd known I was writing for kids, I might actually have spelt things out a bit more, and that would probably have killed the appeal.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

The fact 'Twin Peaks' had a life at all took most of us in the cast by surprise. We thought it would be too unusual for network television. The original intention was that it would be a two-hour movie. If the network didn't want to pick it up as a series, it could just show that. But ABC took a chance.

In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

I agree that my single-minded approach was a failing in life, but if I upset people, it was never intentional - it was just the unfortunate result of a burning desire to get the best out of myself and achieve as much as possible.

The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

A goal without a plan is a wish. What's your plan? It's on you, because you have to do all the work.

I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.

Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak as you want me to speak. May I work as you want me to work.

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

A printed work, which cannot be read, becomes a product without purpose.

Decide what you want and don't think of the intermediary conditions. When Nature works for us we should want what we want and Nature will work it out for us.

Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.

Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it.

We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.