Quotes About Intent

I wanted to capture what language ability tests could never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.

If you will the end, you must will the means.

What we condemn most in another person is the conscious intention to do harm.

He is full of purpose, but void of the quality of mind which accomplishes purpose.

Hubba-Hubba' never slips out, Zeke said. You selected those words with deliberate intent, and I question your commitment to the respectable use of the English language.

Everyone in our culture desires to some extent to be loving, yet many are not in fact loving. I therefore conclude that the desire to love is not itself love. Love is as love does. Love is an act of will - namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love. No matter how much we may think we are loving, if we are in fact not loving, it is because we have chosen not to love and therefor do not love our good intentions.

I have never done anything in my life that did not have a purpose, usually hidden, sometimes even from myself.

What the mediocrity principle tells us is that our state is not the product of intent, that the universe lacks both malice and benevolence, but that everything does follow rules—and that grasping those rules should be the goal of science. THE POINTLESS UNIVERSE SEAN CARROLL Theoretical physicist, Caltech; author, From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time THE WORLD CONSISTS of things, which obey rules.

eAs far as pertains to those secret promptings we are discussing, Solomon's statement that the heart of a king is turned about hither and thither at God's pleasure [Prov. 21:1] certainly extends to all the human race, and carries as much weight as if he had said: "Whatever we conceive of in our minds is directed to his own end by God's secret inspiration." And

That a [presidential] candidate would do whatever it took to get power is now proof that a candidate is fit for the job—a perfect reversal of the founders' intent.

Who ever loves, if he do not proposeThe right true end of love, he's one that goesTo sea for nothing but to make him sick.

Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant.

Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

All Life needs for life is possible to will.

The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.

Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.

If you have life, you have purpose. It can't be otherwise.

You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you.

1. "What do you really want to get out of life?" 2. "What can you offer the world that no one else can?

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Spectemur Agenda

The mind of someone with ADHD is in fact constantly at work. Our productivity may not always show it, but this is not because of a lack of intent or energy!

Still others—even less charitably—think ADHD is a fancy term for laziness and that people who "have it" need some good old-fashioned discipline! In fact, "laziness" is a word about as far from accurate as it could be. The mind of someone with ADHD is in fact constantly at work. Our productivity may not always show it, but this is not because of a lack of intent or energy!

A spider spinning its web intends, whether conscious of the outcome or not, to catch a fly. That is the meaning of the web.