Quotes About Intentions

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

Dans les affaires de cœur et émotions, malgré les meilleures intentions et de vastes océans de l'amour profond à l'intérieur, personne n'a encore été capable d'aimer quelqu'un comme tout le monde veut être aimé. Et que ya un aspect paradoxal intéressante de l'amour!

Veritas in purissima est forma simplicissima est intelligere. Verum etiam est in hoc mundo aliquid pulcherrimo, utere ea ut nisi dum incipiunt intentione teli nocere aliis arbitrii. meo iudicio, verum non sine vita.

It is clear that the early founders had good intentions and meant well; they were not evil men whose conscious motivation was to oppress and dominate others.

You know," Ghastly said to Skulduggery, "for someone who hates plans, you've got an awful lot of them." "Well, yes," Skulduggery replied, "but really, the likelihood of any of them actually working is extraordinarily slim.

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended. [Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis, Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]

Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .

Most people set intentions wrong. The right way to set intentions is to be clear on what you want to go FROM and what you want to go TO.

A sister I'm not allowed to see, a headmaster with questionable intentions, and a duck that wants to kill me. Good doesn't feel like the right way to put it.

I take it Asher called you?" "What's your endgame here, Henry? Why are you going?

It's just to talk. Nothing more. It's not like I'm hitting on you. Finch: Unless you want me to. Hit on you, I mean. Me: No. Finch: "No" you don't want me to come over? Or "no" you don't want me hitting on you?

Harm is one of those things that I always mean to keep clear of, but somehow my intentions and me don't chime as they ought, and people will get hit with stones that I throw at my neighbor's dogs...

Does anyone bathe hastily? Do not say that they do it ill, but hastily. Does anyone drink much wine? Do not say that they do ill, but that they drink a great deal. For unless you perfectly understand their motives, how should you know if they act ill? Thus you will not risk yielding to any appearances except those you fully comprehend.

Happiness is commonly mistaken for passively experienced pleasure or leisure. That conception of happiness is good only as far as it goes. The only worthy object of all our efforts is a flourishing life. True happiness is a verb. It's the ongoing dynamic performance of worthy deeds. The flourishing life, whose foundation is virtuous intention, is something we continually improvise, and in doing so our souls mature. Our life has usefulness to ourselves and to the people we touch.

What deters is not the capabilities and intentions we have, but the capabilities and intentions the enemy thinks we have. The central objective of a deterrent weapons system is, thus, psychological. The mission is persuasion.

Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation.

Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces—forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago. Decisions, especially bad ones, create their own kind of momentum, and momentum can be a bitch to stop, as every athlete knows.

There are good intentions behind many people's conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified skepticism about the crap the USDA allows manufacturers to put in our food. But it's hard to ignore the often sanctimonious nature of what some nutritionists view as an 'extremist' way of eating.

I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.

Many good people serve in Congress. They are patriotic, hard-working, and devoted to the public good as they see it, but the institutional and cultural impediments to change frustrate the intentions of these well-meaning people as rarely before.

Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.

When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

The best dating advice I can give is... are you going in it for marriage, or are you going in it for just a date? You've got to be open about it right away, because the other person could be in it for marriage, but you're not.

I definitely understand a lot of what I want and what I don't want. I'm very clear on that, and I think that's been very beneficial.