Quotes About Intent

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.

I went to the Capitol and came to court specifically to draw attention to the problems of the world that directly affect my state of mind and my physical body and to offer a way to clean up the world. This is my intent.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Pre-meditation can form in split seconds.

It wasnt the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

Does the Lord intend to make man happy? Sure... but it's a byproduct, not a prime product.

Attention is the key; for where man's attention goes, there goes his energy, and he himself can only follow.

About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.

What a man wishes, he will believe.

Ivy was the only person awake, her face lit up by her screen. And for the first time in a long time, it looked the way it had used to when she'd been on the track of some fascinating science problem: alive, intent, fiercely joyful.

Remember this: It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent.

1. Who am I? 2. Where am I? 3. Why am I where I am? 4. What do I intend to do about that?

If I were a scientist looking at this stuff, I might wonder about God—not about His existence, but His intent.

Nietzsche's famous dictum—the most common form of human stupidity is forgetting what one is trying to do

I'm going to marry you one day, you know. Is that a promise? If you want it to be.

I hate when people don't hear the actual words out of your mouth or even the intent of it. They just hear something completely different.

I never said I wanted to be a movie star.

You want to be busy and try and get the scoreboard moving, and showing that intent when you go out there is important.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

What I heard my mom always say was that, while she was never naive, she understood the FBI's intent was, obviously, to break up the family.

It's not that I set out to say, 'I'm going be the first assistant coach in the NBA.' That really - it was never my intent. It just kind of happened very naturally.