Quotes About Intention

You don't need a ton of moves to get to where you want to be. You don't have to expend energy in a wasteful way. That doesn't mean not playing hard. It means playing smart.

Don't even go to the studio if you don't think that your music's going to do something. You're wasting your time and my time.

My uncle was a preacher, and I used to go watch him preach. He was also funny, so I'm very 'preacher-ish' on stage, not by intent but because that's where I learned to talk in front of people.

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

God intended Earth. God intended the waters. God intended you and me. We were created in the image and the likeness of God; we are holograms, if you will. So the power, the presence, the energy is within you and me. The energy of God, as life, is within each of us.

Basically, if I decide to retire I don't want it to be one of those situations where, you know, after a couple of months I have the itch to play again. That's not something I want to do. I want to put a lot of thought into it and make the final decision. I don't want to waver on it at all.

I'm a human being. I've got opinions, I'm not always right, I'm not always on time, I don't always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved.

There are ways of fighting for your interests. I never do something in business that I wouldn't do in life.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

You always intend to do this and that, but then you have to go out and do it on the pitch.

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.

I don't plan to go out and do action or not do action.

Yes, I definitely plan to direct at some point.

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.

I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

I hadn't planned on being an activist.

Everything I do is with a planned approach.

He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.