Quotes About Intent

To which I answered, That the intent of my coming thither, and to other places, was to instruct, and counsel people to forsake their sins, and close in with Christ, lest they did miserably perish; and that I could do both these without confusion (to wit), follow my calling, and preach the Word also.

The Law of Diminishing Intent says, "The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

The Law of Diminishing Intent says that the longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never do it.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning

An unholy altered state of mindStalking with intent from behindThe needless lonely empty timeThat's filled my life- that's so unkind

Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.

An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

Design exists to serve some purpose.

Design always has a purpose.

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

A wish is a desire without energy

Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.

A man must earnestly want.

I didn't go to law school wanting to be a lawyer.

I've got a long-term plan.

There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.

Get that son of a bitch to jail," he said through his teeth, "before I kill him!" His eyes were testimony enough to the intent of the statement. He'd forgotten law, duty, honor, everything, in the grip of the worst fear he'd ever felt. If she died, he would be lawless. Nothing would matter to him in the world, ever again, except revenge.

They took her intent and read that too, turning it into fact.

She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it

You can get into trouble really fast because it's often not what you say or mean, it's what they hear and understand. And be careful not to take offense when they mean no offense.

She intends, in other words, to relocate you to the progressive plantation. There is only one way to do this: convert all of America into a plantation. This means reducing the whole country to the miserable condition that we now see only in inner cities and on native Indian reservations. For

Of course we did everything right, insofar as we were able to imagine what right was.