Quotes About Intention

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Nearly all the laws which were originally framed with the intention of benefiting the workers, have either turned into weapons in their enemies' hands, or become dead letters, unless the workers through their organizations have directly enforced the observance. So that in the end, it is direct action that has to be relied on anyway.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal, or desire is.

Keep your mind off the things you don't want by keeping it on the things you do want.

I am going to kill your father," Gaston said. "May I hold him down?" "Will it be necessary?" he asked. "Non, but I feel I will garner great satisfaction in being a participant.

Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning or intention, as if the poem were a will, a contract, or the constitution?

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

We live by choice, not by chance.

We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Get very clear about the kind of world we would like and then start living that way.

With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.

Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.

Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying.

Why we do what do matters. When we lose our why, we lose our way. We inevitably get lost when we don't know why we are doing what we are doing.

Why I am NOT going to buy a computer

Self-confidence should be applied to wholesome actions, Overcoming of delusions and my ability to overcome them. Thinking, 'I alone shall do it' Is the self-confidence of action.

The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action.

The soul contains the event that shall befall it for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

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