Quotes About Intent

Be careful not to spend your life laboring in secondary causes.

He means well. He just doesn't know what he means well.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I wonder how appropriate it is to try to 'argue someone into the kingdom.' Many apologists hotly deny any such charge, but I don't believe them. The tenor of almost all apologetics literature makes it plain that this is their intent.

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

No action is ever lost - nothing we do is without result. It's obvious, of course, but how many people ever really believe it, or act as if it were so?

Direct all of your time to those activities that count. Enlightened people are priority driven.

Purpose is the most powerful motivator in the world. The secret of passion truly is purpose.

It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is what are you so busy about?

Sorry about the horse," he said. "I was aiming at you.

In reality, it is unimportant that I have no likelihood of being really fulfilled (I am quite willing for this to be the case). Only the will to fulfillment shines, indestructible, before me.

His eyes were fixed straight ahead.

By spotlighting the issue of intent, Hamilton identified the criteria for libel that still hold sway in America today: that the writing in question must be false, defamatory, and malicious.

A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

allows "for the possibility that 'they know not what they do.' "8 How many of our parents intended the harm they caused? How many acted in ignorance and are ignorant still? How many are stuck in their

No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise. Wouldn't it, really? said Alice, in a tone of great surprise. Of course not, said the Mock Turtle. Why, if a fish came to me, and told me he was going on a journey, I should say 'With what porpoise?

One should never go anywhere without a porpoise.

Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villians... And magic itself is neither good nor bad; it is intent that makes it either.

Freud showed, too, how the mind, in one of its parts, could work without logic, yet not without that directing purpose, that control of intent from which, perhaps it might be said, logic springs. For the unconscious mind works without the syntactical conjunctions which are logic's essence.

according to Freud, the tie you pick, the ring you wear, the shirt you buy, all say something about you. Nothing is random, everything you do has intent.

The intent of sincere humanitarians is to do good to society, just as the intent of the child who kills a bird by to much fondling is to do good to the bird.

In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies, hastens or purifies the consequences of natural cause and effect.