Quotes About Intent

there was no time in Lestat's plan for anything but his plan.

You accuse me of audacity! You're living and breathing now entirely because I want it.

He'd been meaning to buy a cat anyhow, he said. (But notice how he'd used the word buy, apparently unaware that true animal lovers would not be caught dead in a pet shop.)

Gang shootings—as indiscriminate as they often are—still don't have the nihilistic intent of rampages. Rather, they are rooted in an exceedingly strong sense of group loyalty and revenge, and bystanders sometimes get killed in the process.

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does. Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

Don't worry about your stuff. Worry about making meaning instead.

You are not your work. Your work is a series of choices made with generous intent to cause something to happen. We can always learn to make better choices.

Permission Marketers are totally obvious about their objectives with the consumer.

122. What's It for?

Now, instead of asking, "How can I get more people to listen to me, how can I get the word out, how can I find more followers, how can I convert more leads to sales, how can I find more clients, how can I pay my staff . . . ?" you can ask, "What change do I seek to make?

And too often, that purpose is simply a backward way of saying, "I'd like to sell more of what I've already decided to sell.

What followed was for him a very entertaining spectacle, with one of Edward's brothers seemingly intent upon the most subtle of seductions and the other barely able to force malmsey past the gorge rising in his throat.

Grant was as usual a good deal more intent on what he had in mind to do to the enemy than he was on what the enemy might or might not do to him.

all this talk about your son's loyalty and fidelity has made me feel a sudden urge to go riding.' His father scowled. 'You shouldn't ride in your condition. You could fall from a horse and lose or injure the babe you carry.' Holding Styxx's hand in hers, she paused to smile graciously at him. 'I never said anything about horse, Majesty. It's your son I intend to mount and ride. Good day.

No matter the intent or heartfelt emotion, not all promises could be kept.

Life as an end is qualitatively different from life as a means.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

Your life is not about what you are doing. Yet, it is true that what you are doing is often a reflection of what your life is about.

Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.

I look on everything with a very optimistic eye. Because I'm a body builder by trade, you know, that was my intent all my life.

Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.