Quotes About Intent

Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction.

If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

You can't hit a target if you don't know what it is.

The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives.

Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet.

You must have a clear mental picture of the correct thing before you can do it successfully.

You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have.

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.

Today, no matter where I'm going and no matter what I am doing, it is my dominant intent to see that which I am wanting to see.

But what is the point of tiring oneself over words that are being used from two quite different points of view? One should instead rely on the meaning intended.

we must wield carefully with our thoughts and words.

do with you?

You ride horse of good intent," Naomi said. "It does not arrive at destination.

Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum

You can never be happy until you understand why you're doing what you're doing.

Under the charge against us the normal rules of evidence are suspended. For us they don't exist.WE are charged not with committing espionage, but with conspiring to commit espionage. Since espionage itself does not have to be proved, no evidence is required that we have done anything. All that is required is evidence that we intended to do something. And what is this evidence? Coincidentally enough under the law the testimony of our so-called accomplice is considered evidence.

See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

by John Updike; he, intent on a paperbound anthology of science fiction stories edited by Hans Stefan Santesson.