Quotes About Intention

I will be what I will be - and I am now what I am. Here is where I will devote my energy.

With dialogue, people say a lot of things they don't mean. I like dialogue when it's used in a way when the body language says the complete opposite. But I love great dialogue... I think expositional dialogue is quite crass and not like real life.

Never wear a red t-shirt to Target. I enjoy helping people, but not every two minutes.

All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

It doesn't matter what your target is, write down your goal and then plan how you are going to achieve it.

After 'Tarzan - The Wonder Car,' I didn't want to do any and every film.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise.

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

What matters is what you do. And this runs counter to what a lot of the culture teaches people about putting feelings first. By contrast, resilient people focus not on what they intend, but on what they achieve.

I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.

Most people who actually know me know that I am a huge believer in the teachings of The Secret. The basic tenets of The Secret are Ask, Believe, and Reveive.

I'm up here to help the team win every at-bat, offense, defense, baserunning.

I take an approach of focusing on characteristics and qualities that I want to be as a teammate and the numbers will take care of themselves.

With the best of intentions, the reformers conflated what savage cops did in the streets with the backroom deal-making that wired the convention for Hubert Humphrey—just as Mayor Daley's police tarred peaceful McCarthy campaign bureaucrats with the rampages of the revolutionary left.

Do what you are doing. Monastic motto

You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.

No one can see the point where the longing is the most concentrated.

He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle.

Life is sacred—for everyone, not just monks and mystics. But to feel it and see it, there are things you can do, things that bring out the wonder and connectedness of everything in life. It begins with your intention, looking in. And it's furthered by your attention, looking out.

It felt disingenuous to keep saying, "If we're still together next year . . . " since we knew we wanted to be together next year. Pretending to keep those options open became dead weight.

What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.

Both Caligula and Abraham Lincoln sought power, yet it is highly implausible to suppose that Caligula and Lincoln were driven by the same motives.

If he asks himself what he believes is right but doesn't do it, he is also out of integrity. Only by asking himself what he believes is right and then doing it does he become a man of integrity.