Quotes About Intent

While Cutler was tinkering with his castor oil, his roommate began feeling ill. Fearing it might be ricin poisoning, the roommate went to the emergency room. It was just flu, but at the mention of ricin, medical personnel called in a potential terrorist situation and a Phoenix SWAT team descended upon the apartment. Cutler served three years for, essentially, possession of a laxative with criminal intent.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks

Non v'è contributo migliore di un fermo proposito per tranquillizzare la mente, di un obiettivo, cioè, su cui l'anima fissi il suo sguardo intellettivo.

The purpose gives you a reason, which

although the more specific the purpose, the better.

Pero, desde luego, inversión es un vocablo de significado relativo. Depende de lo que se quiera conseguir.

Life consist of motion with purpose

There was nothing else, nothing to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it.

The man who has no purpose, but has to act, acts to destroy others. That is not the same thing as a productive or creative purpose.

El hombre existe para la consecución de sus deseos.

animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Almost no one gets a chance to alter the course of human events on purpose, in the exact same way they wish for it to be altered.

Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.

you can't legitimately criticize someone's tactics if you don't understand his objectives

Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity

The material would indeed have to be handled carefully and with an awareness of how easily it might descend into riotous. Pain would have to be wrenched out of it; the reader would have to feel with the characters. Not only intellectual content but levels of the ambiguous would have to woven through less Galaxies become merely an attack upon the technological, a curse against the absurdity. Nothing, surely, could be further from the intent of the novel.

these sources were not intending to present what we think of as historically accurate information; that's a modern imposition on these Gospels that they can't bear.

It conjured up an image of fate, not blind at all but equipped with sentient 20/20 vision and intent on grinding helpless mortals between the great millstones of the universe to make some unknown bread.

Authenticity is critical to building a relationship of trust. And that means you need to "declare your intent." Declaring your intent involves opening your agenda, giving the why behind the what. It is a great practice in using vulnerability to operationalize authenticity.

because more important than how fast you're going, is where you're headed.

Integrity also means avoiding any communication that is deceptive, full of guile, or beneath the dignity of people. "A lie is any communication with intent to deceive," according to one definition of the word. Whether we communicate with words or behavior, if we have integrity, our intent cannot be to deceive.

It's much more a matter of what you do and why you do it, than how fast you get it done.

I once asked a CEO of an environmental equipment company what his goals were. I was expecting to hear some intent, like "Give people inexpensive tools to reduce carbon emissions" or "Help coal companies be better neighbors in their communities." Instead, he replied that he wanted his company to make the Fortune 500. That might be a result of his success, but success doing what? Only intent points to clear action.

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs. -Nancy Reagan, speaking at an anti-drug rally