Quotes About Intent

Dame Betka laughed without humor. You are not alone in your yearnings. That is as may be! But I am quite alone in being Hester Lajoie! I strike my own personal path through the wilderness of life, and intent to resist dissolution tooth and nail!

It's not enough to say that you want equality, Ro. What do you intend to do about it?

but what men imagine they are doing and what they are doing in fact are rarely the same thing.

I hate to sound like someone twice my age talking about these comics today and all that, but it's as though their intent or goal on stage seems to be to see how uncomfortable they can make the audience, or how viciously they can savage their subjects.

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context.

If you talk to people in the military, they'll tell you it takes 3-to-5 years to completely change a culture. It's about making sure, first of all, that everybody understands what the intent and what the vision is. Then you have to map out how you're gonna get there. And as you start to do that, you've got to find out who's in and who's not in.

If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately, honestly, and directly with that individual. Such an approach invites inspiration from the Holy Ghost and permits misperceptions to be clarified and true intent to be understood.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

Acknowledge what i mean, and not what say

To develop stronger focus, develop a greater reason or meaning for your goal.

Never forget the prime purpose of your life.

So much can be done, even when little is said.So little can be done, even when much is spoken.

Words can make or break, use your words carefully

You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.

Never mistake motion for action.

My sole intent is to spread love through music - to let people know the power of music.

If we were all to chase every squirrel that comes running along in the form of a personal dispute or a mischaracterization of someone, or someone's integrity or intent, we'd be very busy doing that and not focusing on the government, on that which we need to reform internally.

For me, making my intent clear to the batsman before he stamps his authority is important. Playing with his mind is a way of attacking rather than setting attacking fields.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman. I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.

No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.