Quotes About Intent

The writer, like a murderer, needs a motive.

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

The work is not simply about an occupation .. but why you are here.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick.

When you really think about it, it doesn't really matter where a game ends. Ultimately, if the player is satisfied with stopping at a particular point, it doesn't matter if it's where the creator intended things to end or not... and so that's where the idea of having so many endings came about.

If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.

But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.

The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose.

The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose."73

There are right ways and wrong ways to give. In most cases, the difference lies in the motivation behind it. Always scrutinize the why behind the what.

It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world.

what you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.

If you can't define or act upon it, forget it.

y ambos son razones horribles para hacer las cosas».

Your words are always in pursuit of some kind of kingdom.

While we are pushed by drives, we are pulled by meaning, and

I don't aim to offend.

I don't see myself as offending people.

Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended.

Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They're not ever intended to be offensive or controversial.