Quotes About Intent

But once you've got the How, the Why drives it home.

He was a man with a purpose. Not a very good purpose, as he would have been the first to admit, but it was at least a purpose, and it did at least keep him on the move.

In the above-captioned case, the motive or original intent of the UNSUB was burglary of cash and/or other valuables. With the unexpected appearance of one of the residents of the house, the crime devolved into a homicide. The motivation was both sexual opportunism and the need to eliminate the only witness.

it is the intention to do wickedness that is this world's true evil.

People don't do things without a reason.

She returned that intent gaze quietly and without any nervousness. He said at last:

The wish to kill and the action of killing are two different things.

Unii vor ca un lucru sa se intample. Altii isi doresc ca lucrul sa se intample. Iar altii il fac sa se intample.

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.

We were orbiting around the idea of intent and context. We would take the bus into work, and if you said, 'Here's a shirt you might like,' and I open it on my mobile phone, I'm not going to pull out my credit card and wallet. We thought, 'How does someone do this? An e-mail to yourself, or you try to remember?'

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said.

I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit.

A single action could derive from many motivations. I should never assume.

Sometimes everyone does their best and things still end up wrong.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

Blame me not for my failures, for thats natural, but surely do for my achievements thats I rarely stumble upon with no motive whatsoever to achieve!

there is no other profession in the history of man which shows his evil intent than politics, but this he already knows to be true, except for the fact that his emotions and ambitions won't allow him to admit because of his blind arrogance and stupidity.

There was so much on 'Superstar' that we didn't intend. I mean, there were things that we did which were innovative, but some of them were forced on us because we couldn't get anybody to do the show. 'Evita' was much more sophisticated. That doesn't make it better, but it does make it different. We knew what we were doing.

The Supreme Court has been very clear: when it comes to religious discrimination, you can take intent into consideration.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Why do the men come, do you suppose? Who knows why men do anything?