Quotes About Intention

I believe that we live in a 'return to sender universe' - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

One hundred percent I can see myself settling down.

Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

I don't take bad shots.

I'm trying to make the right play. Sometimes, I'm going to take contested shots and stuff, but it happens.

I think it's important that you pick the right moments and that you don't just bark all the time. And you have to have something behind you and not just say things because you think you need to talk.

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

It means that how we relate to all our moments, all our experiences, is a choice.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts…. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

becoming more of a human doing than a human being

paying attention on purpose in the present moment and non-judgmentally.

but we're not being educated in how to be, only in how to accomplish. So it's all about acquisition, about getting stuff we don't have...As soon as you realize it's a thought pattern, you can write yourself a restraining order.

His struggle to mold me in his image had been successful after all. The old walrus in fact managed to instill in me a great and burning ambition; it had simply found expression in an unintended pursuit. He never understood that the Devils Thumb was the same as medical school, only different.

I have to admit, the terrorists were following their prophet," Dan says. "They were willing to do essentially what I did. I see the parallel. But the difference between those guys and me is, they were following a false prophet, and I'm not. "I believe I'm a good person," Dan insists. "I've never done anything intentionally wrong. I never have.

Joseph wasn't by nature reflective or deliberative. He conducted his life impulsively, acting according to instinct and emotion. The Lord, it seemed to him, must surely have intended man to know the love of more than one wife or He wouldn't have made the prospect so enticing.

Never for a moment believe that the great body of the citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and when convinced they will be ready to repair them.

So you faked it to give Zimbardo a better study?" I asked. "It was completely deliberate on my part," he replied. "I planned it. I mapped it out. I carried it through. It was all done for a purpose. I thought I was doing something good at the time.

cerca di non arrabbiarti troppo con chi pensa di conoscerti meglio di quanto tu conosca te stesso. Ha buone intenzioni.

Like Hilary (who never watched her own television programmes), Dorothy had no intention of ever consuming the products which she was happy to foist upon an uncomplaining public.

Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

The man who 'forgets' his toothbrush in a woman's house is a man who wants to come back.