Quotes About Intent

One of the things I love about jazz music is that intent is first and execution is second. In classical music, execution is first and intent is second, meaning that you must first learn a piece before you can truly add your interpretation to it.

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

I have come up to town expressly to propose to her. Algernon. I thought you had come up for pleasure? . . . I call that business.

If I ever breakfasted at half past eight I should walk on the Embankment, trying to end it all in a watery grave.

Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal.

if you will here stop and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.9

The disciplines are practices that change the inner self and its relationship to the "helper" (paraclete), so that we can actually do what we would and avoid what we would not. They of course have no point apart from the serious intent to obey Christ's teaching and follow his example.

Preliminary 1: Determining Your Desire

Satan, and his intent is to thwart God's purposes by manipulating the minds of human beings.

desire—wanting something that appears to be good for some purpose or pleasure.

In accord with his original intent, the heavenly Father has in fact prepared an individualized kingdom for every person, from the outset of creation. That

Nothing is more creative … nor destructive … than a brilliant mind with a purpose. By

But as with so many things in our lives, the reason for doing something is not the important thing. It is the fact of doing that remains.

He thought she knew what he meant, but the biggest mistake you can make is thinking they know what you mean.

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

A warrior has to believe, otherwise he cannot activate his intent positively.

Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

Your thoughts don't matter if they are not converted into actions.

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.

Something she'd gotten from Burton and the Corps, that you didn't do things in the clothes you sat around in. You got yourself squared away, then your intent did too.

The means have murdered the end.

Just her, three men, a fidgety pig and lawful intent.

spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.