Quotes About Intent

It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?

purpose-driven priority.

To-do lists inherently lack the intent of success. In fact, most to-do lists are actually just survival lists—getting you through your day and your life, but not making each day a stepping-stone for the next so that you sequentially build a successful life.

As Henry David Thoreau said, "It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?

Achievers do sooner what others plan to do later and defer, perhaps indefinitely, what others do sooner. The difference isn't in intent, but in right of way. Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

Perhaps the most admirable reason to seek rapport would be to put someone at ease, but if that is a stranger's entire intent, a far simpler way is to just leave the woman alone. Charm

Remember, the nicest guy, the guy with no self-serving agenda whatsoever, the one who wants nothing from you, won't approach you at all. You are not comparing the man who approaches you to all men, the vast majority of whom have no sinister intent. Instead, you are comparing him to other men who make unsolicited approaches to women alone, or to other men who don't listen when you say no. In

One way to charm is with the smile, which Eckman calls the most important signal of intent. He adds that it is also "the typical disguise used to mask the emotions.

Honour thy error as a hidden intention.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The most excellent method he had found of going to God was to do our normal activities without any view of pleasing men, and (as far as we are able) purely for the love of God.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.

Hypocrisy, of course, delights in the most sublime speculations; for, never intending to go beyond speculation, it costs nothing to have it magnificent.

The clear intent of our law is to enable a man to live in the world and yet hold his faith close to his daily thoughts.

I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.

If your only intent is to be seen, you'll never be seen. If your intent is to be happy, comfortable, genuine, and true in craft, you're destined to be noticed.

I might be one of the most flamboyant characters New Zealand has ever seen, but my intentions are good, and I would like to see New Zealand flourish.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

When actresses jump on the anti-Iraq bandwagon, they often combine down-home momism with an ignorance of Islamist intent which is truly awesome.

Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve through the doing.

How' is always more important that 'what.' See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say