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Quotes About Intent

The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent.
~ David Barton
It was my intent all along to write a nonjudgmental narrative of Bush's presidency. Along the way, a number of liberal friends of mine expressed disgust that I would spend time on such an endeavor.
~ Robert Draper
My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.
~ William James
You hope you impact people on the deepest level you are capable of at the time. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. You're trying.
~ Lisa Shannon
If I got it the right length precisely, I could spring the finishing ejaculation with effect enough to make some impressible girl deliver a startled little yelp and jump out of her seat --and that was what I was after.
~ Mark Twain
Uyan?k geçirdiÄŸi zamanlarda saatler tepesinde dikiliyor, onu y?pratmakta kesinlikle tereddüt etmiyorlard?. Gülümseyerek can?n? ç?kar?yor ama sonra da yaÅŸamas?na izin veriyorlard?. Bir ÅŸeyin yaÅŸamas?na izin vermekte ancak bu kadar art niyet olabilirdi.
~ Markus Zusak
Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
A man can surely do what he wills to do, but he cannot determine what he wills.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.
~ Ayn Rand
Fransisco, what's the most depraved type of human being? -The man without purpose.
~ Ayn Rand
Francisco, what's the most depraved type of human being?" "The man without a purpose.
~ Ayn Rand
El hombre que no cuenta con ningún objetivo en la vida, tiene que creárselo».
~ Stanis?aw Lem
And, of course, this time, there was no question of him not succeeding—he intended to get his ring on her finger no matter how long it took. This
~ Stephanie Laurens
It's the thought that counts-quite literally. There's energy in doing and in intention, and it matters. It makes a difference.
~ Stephanie Laurens
Are you planning to stay? He looked down at her. That, he stated, his voice very low, depends largely on you. Patience looked into his grey eyes- and froze. Every muscle was paralyzed, all the way to her toes. The idea that he was amusing himself, without any real intent, died- slain by the look in his eyes. The intent in his eyes. It could've have been clearer had he put it into words.
~ Stephanie Laurens
What you intend when you approach something in the world determines, to varying extents, the degree of sensory gating that occurs as you perceive that phenomenon. Intent, task demands, cognitive template, and gating defaults all affect what you sensorally perceive when a part of the exterior world and you meet. More colloquially, all of us see what we expect to see.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
Everything we do means something.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
The purpose of living is living for a purpose.
~ Ray Price Billy
Thoughts are powerfulSo be careful
~ patrick cruz
There is a difference between how you live your life, and what you do with your life.
~ Abhijit Naskar
The things I do are known to the world, but why I do them is my secret alone.
~ Imania Margria
I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced of why I must retire for the day
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah