Quotes About Intent

She said, "When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed.…

The ambiguity in the goal is allowing rationalization to creep in.

The Combat Maneuver Training Center, the unit in charge of military simulations, recommends that officers arrive at the Commander's Intent by asking themselves two questions: If we do nothing else during tomorrow's mission, we must _________________. The single, most important thing that we must do tomorrow is ________________.

as soon as people know what the intent is they begin generating their own solutions.

The destination was crystal clear:

tap more profound motivations.

I thought about mistakes I had made in the past. I thought about when things went wrong. And I realized it was never an issue of intent, but of intensity. I was a good guy, recall.

If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.

What is he collecting them for?

It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive.

On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a pleasure that is exclusively esthetic or altogether disinterested. It always implies a secret or unconscious intent, if not of each one of us, at all events of society as a whole. In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate, and consequently to correct our neighbour, if not in his will, at least in his deed.

It is not enough to be busy... The question is: what are we busy about?

At times I was aware, while they were happening, that I was a witness to extraordinary events, and I tried to remember them as fully and as accurately as possible, with the conscious intent of recording them, should I be fortunate enough to survive the war. Such

It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.

All men love live not by what they may intend for their own well-being, but by the love that dwells in others.

A man in motion always devises an aim for that motion.

The intent to preserve and capture something is very different from the urge to share, but they had become intertwined.

My dad used to have an expression - 'It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.'

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

Here's the problem: People have completely and utterly forgotten one thing when it comes to communication - intent.

man who goes to a hardware store to buy a power drill doesn't really need a drill—he needs holes. He

In everything one must consider the end.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Felicidad no es hacer lo que uno quiere sino querer lo que uno hace (Jean Paul Sartre)

Felicidad no es hacer lo que uno quiere sino querer lo que uno hace.