Quotes About Intention

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

The thing about Steven Seagal is that he clearly wants to be a great person, but he just doesn't know how.

It's very hard to live with yourself if you don't stick with your moral code.

Pausing between stimulus and response allows you to show up in your life.

If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a filmmaker that makes films that have a point, I'm stoked.

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

There's something really wrong with using Botox: it stops you making facial expressions - people are so interested in how they appear that there's no intention of projecting how they feel.

Comedy is similar to hockey... in only one way. You get a lot of credit for assists. So I try to serve whatever the intention is, be it the joke or the story or the scene or the moment or the kiss, even if it's not my joke or moment.

I think the big difference between most countries and the U.S., is that governments are more straightforward now about their intentions to gather information on private communications.

In some strange way, this was meant to be.

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

De Valera had also been active. He subjected deputies who announced their intention of voting for the Treaty to inquisitions for their threatened lèse-majesté.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

Make a plan that truly reflects your goals and interests, and you'll be more likely to execute. Why pretend you're going to work out every single day when you know you're only going to do it three times a week?

They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries.

They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries."72

You cannot keep your eyes on the bloody footprints you have left behind you. You must keep your eyes on where you are going.

Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask.

If I want a better-than-average career, I can't simply 'go with the flow' and get it. Most people do just that: they wish for an outcome but make no intention-driven actions toward that outcome. If they would just do something most people would find that they get some version of the outcome they're looking for. That's been my secret. Stop wishing and start doing.

What do you want?" is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.

Show up in every moment like you're meant to be there, because your energy precedes anything you could possibly say." Marie Forleo