Quotes About Intent

He who wills the end wills the means also

Everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?

Because President Obama had an overall strategy, military and civilian leaders under his command could make reactive decisions that advanced the president's goals. In the military, we call that commander's intent: When there's a decision to be made and you don't have exact guidance at that moment, you at least know overall what your boss wants.

You can get so focused on a strategy and making it work that you lose sight of your larger mission.

I'm not always trying to strike out guys. It just kind of happens sometimes.

It's clearly the intent of the Islamic State to strike us here in the United States. And that's why we have to go on offense in the war against the Islamic State to fight them where they are before they fight us here in the United States.

Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole in what we take to be modernism - even in what we take to be the ordinary fabric and intent of language. Nothing is like 'The Hunger Artist.' Nothing is like 'The Metamorphosis.'

I'm very goal oriented.

It's an honor to have been part of something so core to so many lives. The show has evolved beyond it's original intent and form and has transcended... itself!

I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

All things happen for a reason . . . even No Reason is still a reason.

There are two reasons why a person does something, one that sounds good and the real one.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.

Cuando uno busca algo —dijo el phooka—, debe estar seguro de que desea encontrarlo.

Frøken Aemelin, nesten alt det som folk gjør mot hverandre, betyr som handling betraktet svært lite. Det som er avgjørende, er deres formål, hvor de vil hen, hva de vil ha tak i.

Sometimes people do much wrong unintentionally, meaning for the best

How much wrong have we done unintentionally, meaning the best

The rope connecting two men on a mountain is more than nylon protection; it is an organic thing that transmits subtle messages of intent and disposition from man to man; it is an extension of the tactile senses, a psychological bond, a wire along which currents of communication flow.

And whoever it was … was planning a murder.