Quotes About Intention

He liked being able to think things through. It was easy to hurt people without meaning to when you were hasty.

You must be present to win. The more you attend to the moments in your life with consciousness, the more aware you will be of the opportunities to move toward what you want, and the more able you will be to direct your actions toward surpassing the best and reaching what's possible.

A reason or a purpose is a combination of wants and don't wants.

As Smith put it: "Every individual . . . neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it . . . he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention."5

poisonous twentieth-century attitude. When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

Kids learn dichotomies in the absence of any ill intent. When a kindergarten teacher says, "Good morning, boys and girls," the kids are being taught that dividing the world that way is more meaningful than saying, "Good morning, those of you who have lost a tooth and those of you who haven't yet.

Never go to sea without a porpoise

They spoke in fragments and ellipses, in paraphrastics and aposiopesis, in a style abundant in chiasmus, metonymy, meiosis, oxymoron, and zeugma; their dazzling rhetorical techniques left him baffled and uncomfortable, which beyond much doubt was their intention.

it begins in your mind. It begins with your words, your thoughts, and your actions each and every day.

But here and now I record this vow, most solemnly, in my diary, My pen shall heal, not hurt.

Sanford Meisner taught actors never to look at the punctuation in a script. His belief was that it would force you into giving a particular line reading that might not be your own—meaning that you would get stuck in a certain way of saying it instead of following the impulses arising from your intention.

This is the thing about good and evil. They aren't so far apart—and they often start from the same valiant place of wanting something to be different.

You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start.

La experiencia lo hizo descubrir el gran poder que las palabras tenían para acercar o alejar a las personas, y que lo importante no era el idioma que se utilizara sino la intención que llevaba el comunicado.

Señor, no es por vicio ni por fornicio sino por dar un hijo a tu servicio.

She had no intention of breaking anyone's heart, except maybe her own.

It is a metaphor for life, perhaps, in that everything is a metaphor for life. The berry season is short. So how full, exactly, do I intend to fill the box? Or, if we slice away the metaphor, we could just ask this: what does the good life look like for me?

You don't build the life you want by saving time. You build the life you want, and then time saves itself.

I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.

You take insult where none is intended, but if you will find insult where none is meant, then perhaps I should try harder to insult on purpose.

They say, be careful what you wish for. Well, be even more cautious with your prayers. Make sure, very sure, it's what you want. You never know when a deity may give you exactly what you asked for.

Non intendevano aggredirmi, ma se Zane avesse continuato a saltellare qua e là come una versione punk di Tigro avrei potuto sparargli per sbaglio...

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

Sometimes When You Are Serious, People Thought You Were Joking, But Sometimes When You Are Joking, People Thought You Were Serious