Quotes About Intention

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

I am growing more and more aware that all too often we preachers aim at nothing and hit it.

For some people to say, 'I just go up there and hit it,' we'll that's good for you. If it works for you, it works for you. But I want to be as precise as possible heading into that shot.

As a spinner, you need to be very precise in Australia. Every run you give must be on your own terms.

To be completely honest, I don't believe that Palin has any intention of actually running for president. Granted, trying to predict Sarah Palin's next move is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.

Understand that the time in the audition is your time. Really own it and take control of it. And do what you prepared. Focus on really executing what it is that you intended to do.

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

There is no basis to say I'm being coy about running for president. If I chose to explore the presidency, I wouldn't do it in a backward way. I'll say, 'I'm exploring the presidency.'

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

Full disclosure: James Comey is a friend. I won't pretend to neutrality about him. He is a highly honorable and decent person, and I have no doubt that he made the many judgments for which people loathe him in good faith.

Oh, I must be ambitious, mustn't I? I'm sure I always have been. I think you can only get away with pretending you're not for so long. After that, it becomes ridiculous.

Dave Filoni is a bit of a magician. Nothing is by accident.

I've not made my name as a wheeler and dealer. Don't say that.

There's a conscious decision to everything I do.

Sometimes, people aren't as consciously aware of their decisions as they should be.

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become.

I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

Well, that's what it was bloody well designed to do, wasn't it?

I ask women to check the feelings they have about themselves before they do something. If you're doing it out of a sense of desperation and need, don't do it.

Despite whatever commercial kind of success you might have or radio success, I don't want to do something just to get as many people as possible to listen.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you're going to have.