Quotes About Intention

What to read? Any good novel enlivens our ability to think about ambiguous situations and judge the intentions of others.

We are washed clean by action and attitude, never by water alone.

Maybe they don't forget you, they just forget to remember you. I don't think people mean to forget.

Living in the present doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't plan ahead. You need to have an intention in mind when you embark on something, but the thing to do is make plans and then wait to see what happens. There are no guarantees.

I've adopted the guideline of Warren Buffett's partner, Charlie Munger, who says "I wanna know where I'll be when I die - so I never go there.

It never really occurs to me that I'm doing cringe comedy. It's something that people tell me afterwards, and I say, 'Again? Really? I never set out with that intention.'

Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.

I don't mind causing offence when I intend to, but I don't like causing it accidentally.

You can only offend me if you mean something to me.

We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

I didn't mean to offend anybody. It's my filter. I constantly work on it.

I no longer take on everything offered. Instead, I go up for roles I like, things that I would enjoy watching, stories that I want to tell.

I like playing characters that are true to life, and there's no guarantee that any of us are going to be okay, but we intend to be, and we take the time to try to be. I don't think it's any different for a character.

Maybe scarcity isn't always a bad thing. Maybe scarcity is something to seek out, to fabricate for oneself.

My intention of making acting a career was about being onstage.

The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.

I think it's disrespectful to go onto a set without some clear idea of what your intentions are, because then you're hanging the director out to dry.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.  Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out.

I want you to live as you would be remembered if you would die tomorrow

What you put out into the world returns to you, and that goes for thoughts, acts, and energy.

there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.

as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla, and had changed its mind at the last moment

there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: "He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.