Quotes About Intent

Common sense argued that she shouldn't attribute to malice what could perfectly well be explained by stupidity,

Ek gret effect men write in place lite;Th' entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

Freedom of action based on commander's intent means that the expectation is success, not a particular way of achieving success.

No offense, right. "No offense" stood for "I'm going to insult you, but you can't be mad at me.

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

Meaning well is a poor defense

I planned killing Mis before he could talk. I planned it secretly—as secretly as I could—so secretly I didn't dare tell it to myself.

A cualquier edad es preciso un propósito en la vida. Es la mejor cura contra muchos males»

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

Energy is equal to desire and purpose.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Without a purpose, nothing should be done.

The soul that has no established aim loses itself.

He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them, to face them directly, not with despair but with the creative intent of keeping them from polluting all the areas of possibility.

You're trying your best to make people laugh; then if you fail, they hate you. But your intent's the same. It's not like you're trying to do evil to them.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.

Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. When I was recollecting the incidents of my life for that, I selected only those incidents which were turning points in my life. I staged it instead of writing it.

You can be a good person without any racial intent and still want to keep the flag. That's what I learned in my time in the south.