Quotes About Intent

As for Barbara Fredrickson, she defines love as a positive resonance that manifests when three events occur simultaneously: the sharing of one or several positive emotions, a synchrony between the behavior and physiological reactions of two people, and the intention to contribute to the other's well-being, an intention that engenders mutual care.

They are all doing their best; even when they are not, they wish they were, and that is worth something too.

It is important to note that going through the motions of answering questions is not critical literacy; rather, critical literacy involves the reader's understanding of the author's intent, bias, and purpose for writing.

I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

I don't get chosen for things unless there is a motive.

When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.

and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.

Don't allow anything to be used for bad, but let it be used only for good.

Institutional racism requires neither conscious effort nor individual intent.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

the moral worth of an action consists not in the consequences that flow from it, but in the intention from which the act is done. What matters is the motive, and the motive must be of a certain kind. What matters is doing the right thing because it's right, not for some ulterior motive.

For those familiar with the work, it is no surprise that the testimony includes that of Pelagia Lewinska, from her memoir Twenty Months in Auschwitz, when she describes her first awareness of the Nazi intent and remarked that she "felt under orders to live" (Lewinska, 41ff., 50).

We need' is always code for 'I want.

The campaign, on its face, was not designed to win anything.

what if it was precisely the absence of intent and, instead, the swings of irrationality and mania that managed, even as his government collapsed, to hold so many people in thrall?

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Una vida volcada hacia una meta deja poco sitio para el recuerdo

Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.

When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.

No debe importarnos tanto lo que uno quiera decir como lo que diga sin querer...

Unfortunately many serious thinkers devote all their mental effort to becoming well-known scholars, but in the meantime they forget their initial purpose in scholarship. In

We interpret the actions of others as malicious when they might be totally innocent. And how we interpret their actions is what upsets us.

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.