Quotes About Intention

I'll stop when I think I'm not doing good stuff. I'll never exploit something just because people like it.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

I'm interested in extremes, in many ways.

If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.

As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.

I didn't think I was doing anything bad by falling in love.

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.

Planning defines the particular place you want to be and how you intend to get there. It's a responsibility rather than a technique.

Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

We tan the way lawyers tell the truth, never on purpose and never very well.

Some of the events described in this book may well offend the reader's sensitivities. Part of this was Vimalananda's intention. He wanted Western holier-than-thou renunciates to know that "filth and orgies in the graveyard" (as one American once described Aghori) can be as conducive to spiritual advancement as can asanas, pranayama, and other "purer" disciplines.

Whenever you employ your ego to identify yourself as the doer of an action, that action becomes a karma for you.

There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."

In the creative process you do not make choices about what you do not want. You make choices about what you do want.

Families break up when people take hints you don't intend and miss hints you do intend.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.

Suicides, in his experience, were perfectly capable of feigning an interest in a future they had no intention of inhabiting.

We are creating at this moment what our tomorrow will be

We want to do something with the time we have, something that will give that time a certain meaning, a certain weight.

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.