Quotes About Intent

Know your goals - it will help guide your decisions.

I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage.

Let's begin by stating our objective," I said. "If in six months you could have your fondest wish, what would it be?

Of all the dogs I have had, Fred was the closest to being actually nuclear i his capacity for destruction. None of it was done with evil intent. He was a wonderfully happy pup and adult dog - inventive and with a great sense of humor, more of which later - but he was also amazingly persistent. Once he started a project, he simply would not stop until it was done.

He knew that he had been born in a sick country, a country now intent on spreading its disease to others through the social media channels and under the cover of night--its true gift of the moment.

Magic," Martha whispered breathlessly, "is diplomacy. It isn't just saying the words. It's who says them, how he says them, and when he says them.

Nay, Sir, not of love," said he, "but a tale shall I relate as best I can, with hearty good will. I shall not disobey your request. Excuse me if I speak amiss. My intention is good. And, lo, my tale is this.

In the meanwhile this Yeoman began to smile. "Brother," said he, "do you wish me to tell you? I am a Fiend. My dwelling is in Hell. And here on Earth I ride about looking for gain, to learn where men will give me any thing. My acquisitions are the sum of all my income. Look how you ride for the same intent. To gain money, you care not how. And so do I, for I would ride to the end of the World to catch my prey.

The unspoken word never does harm.

It isn't about the words you say. It's about the energetic message you send.

Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.

It was always the intent, in a larger arc, to split the Avengers up before the greatest threat that they've ever seen.

My intention is to show the real face of Islam. I see it as a threat.

I would have to think about it for two or three months before I decided to do something which would have meaning. And it would have to be more than just an impression or pleasure. I would need an objective, a meaning. That is the only thing that could help me.

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.

There's no such thing as a lucky punch. You throw to hurt someone and if you hurt someone, job done.

The whole reason Pinterest exists is to help people discover the things that they love and then go take action on them, and a lot of the things they take action on are tied to commercial intent.

The thread that ties together everything I love is honesty in the intention.

If it was not such an awful thing to say of anyone, I should say that she meant well.

It is not then how much a man may know that is of importance, but the end and purpose for which he knows it (p.299).

You can't judge a person by what they're doing, till you know why they're doing it.

Maria didn't fear the sea but, as taught by her father, she respected its power. In her experience the ocean had no intent to drown travellers.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may be asking them to do too much.