Quotes About Intent

Reason, truth, justice, tend not to be man's goals, but the names he gives to his goals.

What—what gold-thing did you buy her?" "A goldfish," Matt says. I groan, "She wanted jewelry, Matt. Like a ring." Matt winces. Then he shrugs. "Well, she didn't say that." I sigh. "She meant it." He shrugs. "She didn't say it." "Matt!" I groan. He tries to seem innocent. He says, "She just said buy her something gold.

Purpose is one that adopts a valued end result for human activity, over a person's lifetime or the lifetime of an organization.

There is one quality more important than "know-how" and we cannot accuse the United States of any undue amount of it. This is "know-what" by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. It is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.

INTELLIGENCE IS ONGOING, INDIVIDUAL adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. If it is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.

They help us to shape God and to accept and work with the shapes that God imposes on us. God is power, and in the end, God prevails. But we can rig the game in our own favor if we understand that God exists to be shaped, and will be shaped, with or without our forethought, with or without our intent.

Yet intelligence is demanding. If it is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.

It was ... more poison packed tight together in one place than I've ever known. Did Humans make it that way on purpose?

It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

Existence without an aim, without a worthy purpose, is worse than wasted

When an artist is pumped up with the intention of creating a masterpiece, however, the work generally comes out poorly,

Make decisions that advance your objectives.

When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Give, no wavelength to your direction.

I don't mean to make you mad, I just keep doing it by accident.

Don't force things, but this doesn't mean that you can't make a real effort.

Goals are what we do. Purposes are why we do what we do.

You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions.

La vida no la escribes con palabras, la escribes con acciones

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.

When a man gives you a rose what you see may not be what he intends. You may think he sees you as delicate or frail. Perhaps you dislike a suitor who considers you sweet and nothing else. Perhaps the stem is thorn, and you assume he thinks you likely to hurt a hand too quick to touch. But if he trims the thorns you might think he has no liking for a thing that can defend itself with sharpness. There's so many ways a thing can be interpreted.

The trouble is, when you gift a girl with flowers your choice can be construed so many different ways. A man might give you a rose because he feels you are beautiful, or because he fancies their shade or shape or softness similar to your lips. Roses are expensive, and perhaps he wishes to show through a valuable gift that you are valuable to him.