Quotes About Intention

It's up to you how to use your life. It doesn't mean that you have to be the best one at cheering up, or that your habitual tendencies never get the better of you. It just has to do with this sense of reminding yourself.

The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.

I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.

Kung fu lives in everything we do. It lives in how we put on a jacket and how we take off a jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is kung fu.

But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.

I never made "feminist art," and if I did it was not deliberate.

It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it. It's tricky and definitely a requires striking a delicate balance.

I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

The scientific attitude implies the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan; that there is no intention in the universe.

The attitude you have right now is the one you are choosing. Is it the one you want?

He had given Daphne a spectacular diamond bracelet before she left, and a ruby heart pin that he had bought for her at Fred Leighton. Sam had always been generous and he had bought something pretty for Alex too, though nothing quite as important. He had bought her a very handsome Bulgari watch that he knew she'd wanted for a while, but none of the thoughtful little things that expressed his interest and affection. He didn't want to mislead her. There

sake…. What are you doing? …

I had it all planned. Or, not planned exactly, but I'd planned to make plans. Plans were very much part of my plan.

Your identity is the result of neither coincidence nor accident. You are who you are because of God's loving design. He wanted you to be you, and no one else.

los países pobres lo son porque quienes tienen el poder toman decisiones que crean pobreza. No lo hacen bien, no porque se equivoquen o por su ignorancia, sino a propósito.

It helps to know where you are going before you set out.