Quotes About Intent

But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant! Not what he pleases, but what he can.

You say you didn't mean any harm: did you mean any good, Curdie?

But may not one sometimes make a mistake without being able to help it?' 'Yes. But so long as he is not after his own ends, he will never make a serious mistake.

The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not.

It was curious that he seemed not merely to have lost the power of expressing himself, but even to have forgotten what it was that he had originally intended to say.

Though firm, we are never too firm, though we love fun, we never have fun in a silly way that makes us appear ridiculous, unless that is our intent.

A linked pair of writing dictums: "Don't make things happen for no reason" and "Having made something happen, make it matter.")

The shortfall between the imagined and the real, multiplied by the violence of one's intent, equals the evil one will do.

You can't go about smelling of April and May, the pair of you, and then expect to gull people into thinking you don't mean to get riveted!

I may be a little fool,' retorted Miss Challoner, plucking up spirit, 'but at least I meant it for the best. While as for you, my lord, you meant nothing but wicked mischief right from the start.

When we are really given to the why of life, the hows begin to flow.

If you can do it then why do it?

If you can do it, why do it. ~ Gertrude Stein

Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.

Have a specific goal every time you hit the gym; this way, your workouts have built-in purpose.

Bad actors like Russia, Iran, and China have demonstrated time and time again they have both the capabilities and the intent to use the cyber domain as an operating space to wreak havoc.

I concern myself with timelessness all the time. If you're not swinging for museum quality, your mind is not in the right place. It doesn't mean you get there, but at least it's the intent.

When it comes to everybody else's thing and their lane and their timing, I'm never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody's biggest mistake if that's their intention.

Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return.

I never in a million years thought I would be the person to go to for self-esteem; that was not my intent. But I happen to love beauty, I love the way people look, and I love making women look beautiful.

There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

A room of expressionless faces staring blankly at my pain, so devoid of meaning there must be evil intent.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

Ly" adverbs slow down the sentence and often foil the writer's intent.