Quotes About Intent

If we hear a joke so awful that we laugh at how bad it is, we are taking part in the irony; in other words, the joke did not contain irony; irony was provided by our response. Why is it ironic? Because the intent of the joke was to get laughter, and it did—but for the wrong reason.

The main challenge to building a clear sense of purpose is that the world is cluttered with noise, distractions, and endless alternative purposes.

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.12 Feeling

Ferlazzo makes a distinction between "irritation" and "agitation." Irritation, he says, is "challenging people to do something that we want them to do." By contrast, "agitation is challenging them to do something that they want to do.

Quiero esas zapatillas de princesa ahora mismo!». Pero nos damos cuenta de que sabe perfectamente lo que hace, y que a todas luces sigue una estrategia y nos manipula para conseguir un fin deseado: que lo dejemos todo y le compremos las zapatillas en el acto.

As a viewer of TV shows, I always like shows more when I just feel like the people in charge have a plan. You can just tell sometimes, 'Oh, there's a plan there. They have an idea for how this is going to unfold.'

I think every villain basically thinks that he or she is doing something to make his world, or the world in general, a better place.

I don't think anyone sets out to be the evil villain.

You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

You mean if a good hunter did this it was on purpose?

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

Human action is purposeful behavior.

Most actions do not aim at anybody's defeat or loss. They aim at an improvement in conditions.

un arma no era nada si no había una persona detrás.

Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.

But I decided that buying the gift was more for me than for her, anyhow. A commercial kind of substitute for prayer.

Commandment 7: It's important to look for changes in a person's behavior that can signal changes in thoughts, emotions, interest, or intent.

Remember, the only intent is for your own well-being. From that place, what Dr. Hew Len calls Zero, you may be inspired to help another, but let it come from inspiration, not the intent of ego.

What is my purpose here? I may say, I just sat down to write, but I am not deceived. I have never done anything in my life that did not have a purpose, usually hidden, sometimes even from myself.

I think he is losing heart in his attempts to woo her. In that bright-yellow waistcoat, the bottom button always punctiliously undone and the pointed flaps open over his neat little paunch, he is as intent and circumspect as one of those outlandishly plumed male birds, peacock or cock peasant, who gorgeously stalk up and down at a distance, desperate of eye but pretending indifference, while the drab hen unconcernedly pecks in the gravel for grubs.

Encline aux vérités qui tuent, elle n'avait nulle intention de blesser.

What the mediocrity principle tells us is that our state is not the product of intent, that the universe lacks both malice and benevolence, but that everything does follow rules—and that grasping those rules should be the goal of science.