Quotes About Intention

You evaded my question." "Then perhaps you had better assume that I intended to evade it.

of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time. If it sometimes pains them to make a choice—if the choice turns out to look like a 'noble sacrifice—

Jubal paused, surprised at himself. He had intended to make the usual agnostic approach . . . and found himself compulsively following his legal training, being an honest advocate in spite of himself, attempting to support a religious belief he did not hold but which was believed by most human beings. He found that, willy-nilly, he was attorney for the orthodoxies of his own race against—he wasn't sure what. An unhuman viewpoint.

Find out what you want to do, then do it. Never talk yourself into doing something you don't want. Think

What I fear most are affirmative actions of sober and well- intentioned men, granting to government powers to do something that appears to need doing.

If you want to affect your environment, don't get lost in your activism. Stop for a moment and make a mandorla. Don't just do — be something.

Believe it possible that you can float off the ground and fly by merely willing it. See what happens.

To quote Gurdjieff again, Life is real then only when I am. If normal (mechanical) consciousness consists largely of uncritical inferences, projections, glandular-emotional reactions etc. then what it perceives, in art or in life, will have many traits of dream, will it not? If consciousness is intentional (Husserl), then making an effort to perceive will make both oneself and the surround more vivid, more meaningful, more real, perhaps?

But like they say at the Pentagon, you have to plan for the enemy's capacity, not his intentions.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

Luck is the residue of design," I said.

it cannot be the intention of Congress or the Executive Department (defendant) to provide the aged Private Ryans a discriminatory hemlock drink from the cup of life after reaching age sixty-five. If in fact that is the intention, then this government of William Jefferson Clinton is not worth fighting for.

Thinking of it, and doing it… they're not the same.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.

Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.

My mother was pulling my leg on that one. I have collected so much gift-wrapped trash over the years from people who copped out and hurriedly bought a little plastic cheapie to give under the protective flag of good thoughts. I tell you, it is the gift that counts. Or rather, people who think good thoughts give good gifts. It ought to be a rule—the Brass Rule of Gift Exchange.

If it is not worth doing, it is worth not doing it well.

Hide your intentions not by closing up (with the risk of appearing secretive, and making people suspicious) but by talking endlessly about your desires and goals-just not the real ones.

Your days are numbered. Will you pass them half awake and halfhearted or will you live with a sense of urgency?

Spectacle and entertainment, clearly, are excellent devices to conceal your intentions, but they cannot be used indefinitely. The public grows tired and suspicious, and eventually catches on to the trick.

It's important to understand that Contrasting is not apologizing. It is not a way of taking back something we've said that hurt others' feelings. Rather, it is a way of ensuring that what we said didn't hurt more than it should have.

How would I behave if I really wanted these results?

Cayce told one individual, "Know that thoughts are things, and as their currents run they may become crimes or miracles." (2419-1)