Quotes About Intention

Do not seek dishonest gains; dishonest

How do we come to choose what it is that we spend our days doing? Would we choose it again if we could? Did we choose it today, or has it simply carried us along somehow?

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

Lofty designs must close in like effects.

'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do!

The portion of the "Letter to the Congress" kept secret at the time of writing remained unopened during the first few months after Lenin died. It was probably fortunate for Stalin's emotional equilibrium in those tense months that he continued in ignorance of the fact that Lenin had intended to unseat him from the post of general secretary. The blow was hard enough to sustain when it came.

You don't understand a lie, Molly said as we paralleled an ancient boardwalk gone white with salt, until you understand the motivation behind it.

teleological engineering.

Let a Sense of Purpose Guide You Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings blessed death. —Leonardo da Vinci

If you yearn for power, quickly lay honesty aside, and train yourself in the art of concealing your intentions.

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 your real ones. You will kill three birds with one stone: you appear friendly, open, and trusting; you conceal your intentions; and you send your rivals on time-consuming wild-goose chases.

Use this tactic in the following manner: 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 your real ones. You will kill three birds with one stone: You appear friendly, open, and trusting; you conceal your intentions; and you send your rivals on time-consuming wild-goose chases.

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 your real ones.

Should and would build no bridges. -Lini

When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your guards. You didn't fear I was here to kill you. You looked over your shoulder to see what I was aiming at. That's the most loving gesture I think a man could receive from a woman. Unless you'd like to sit on my knee for a while...

He said the Dark One intended to blind the Eye of the World, and slay the Great Serpent, kill time itself.

The choice isn't always about what you do, son, but why you do it.

but he never did seem to get around to reading the books he meant to read.

the more people were listening, the more he tended to forget what he intended to say and go off on tangents. In truth, he had to admit that sometimes he rambled a bit with only a few listeners.

Should and would build no bridges