Quotes About Intention

Our main love has always been pop music. We love the restrictions of it in a certain sense, the length and the repetitiveness. But then how much can you get away with - our intention is always to stretch ourselves.

Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.

I am very strict on what products I want to associate myself with, and I felt that some things were just to make a buck.

Making great strides without a well-defined purpose will not bring positive results.

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

Over the years, I've found myself drawn more and more to simpler meals, to dishes that are focused, and to experiences that strip away the excess.

Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.

You take on what's right in front of you. You want to do the best you can with the opportunities that you have.

I do not oppose form, but only form as a goal.

I had no intention of ever doing voice-overs. I wasn't opposed to them; I just didn't have any particular knowledge of how or why people do that.

I didn't try to cry my way out of Orlando. That was never my intention, or not what I did at all. And I understand everybody thought it was that way because of what was being put out there.

Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

But I'm real conscious about what I do. I don't care what the label is. I'm looking at the outcome of it.

There's an outline for each of the books that I adhere to pretty closely, but I'm not averse to taking it in a new direction, as long as I can get it back to where I need it to go.

Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor.

When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.

You are and will become that which you think about most of the time.

Without a target to shoot at, our lives are literally aimless. Without something productive to do, without positive goals and a purpose, a human being languishes. And then one of two things happens. Aimlessness begins to shut a person down in spiritual lethargy and emptiness, or the individual lashes out and turns to destructive goals just to make something happen.

Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.

A few years ago I made a New Years Resolution never to make another New Years Resolution again and so far it's the only one that I have actually kept.

Every 7 seconds there is a woman somewhere in the world giving birth to a child. We must find that woman and stop her!

What you do with your hands you mess up with your feet.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges. I've felt them doing it. Words conjure. I try not to be careless about what I utter, write, sing. I'm careful about what I give voice to.