Quotes About Intention

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

I'm planning a catastrophe.

The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new, more complex order, doesn't emerge from the present in a steady stream, nor at all places at the same rate. It comes, as all things do, in rhythmic waves; there will always be times and places of scarcity and stagnation and retrogression. Still, the long-term direction is clear. The intention of the universe is evolution.

God never intended His Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch out converts. —F. LINCICOME

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do

If you don't program yourself, life will program you.

Then you are not pursuing your goal in life, when you are unfulfilled and just cruising along unconsciously, I believe that you are literally committing spiritual suicide.

It can be extremely difficult to discern evil hearts because their intention is to look good, not be good.

Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.

She had never expected anything special to just happen to her. Her plan for life was to get out there and make special things happen, which was a much more sensible plan from a probability point of view.

And why not do the easiest possible thing? Because isn't that always the best thing?

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

More is not better. Better is better. You don't need a bigger house; you need a different floor plan. You don't need more stuff; you need stuff you'll actually use.

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

If you shoot with a billion cameras, then there's no perspective. You want to use one shot at a time, so it's better to discover what that is before you shoot, rather than trying to make something in the cutting room, and then it just becomes generic.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

I hope I contribute something useful to the human family. That's my intention. And I hope that it's useful to people.

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it's employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.

You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You have to say it like you mean it, even though the thing you're saying is actually planned out.