Quotes About Intentions

I suddenly wished to go back, to have again each separate day to spend. Time. I was trapped in it, fenced into a tiny piece of now that was the only time I could influence. All the soons and tomorrows I might plan were ghost things that might be snatched from me at any moment. Intentions were nothing. Now was all I had.

Time. I was trapped in it, fenced into a tiny piece of now that was the only time I could influence. All the soons and tomorrows I might plan were ghost things that might be snatched from me at any moment. Intentions were nothing. Now was all I had.

Intentions cannot be exchanged for results." - Royal Assassin

intentions don't matter in parenting. Kids don't understand what you mean. They understand what you do.

I believe "I was only…" are three of the most dangerous words in the English language. "I was only joking." "I was only trying to help." "I was only…" No. You weren't.

The first causalities of a religion are the intentions of its founder

He "has so happy a faculty of appearing to accommodate and yet carrying his point, that if he was really not one of the best-intentioned men in the world, he might be a very dangerous one," observed Abigail Adams.

With the best intentions, John fed Frank's gambling addiction, even though Frank often did not realize the source of the loans.

A "no" does not hide anything, but a yes can very easily become a deception, a self-deception; which of all difficulties is the most difficult to conquer. Ah, it is all too true that, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

The question is, do you mean to do right by her? Do you mean well by her? Or is your desire so great that it overwhelms your sense of the right and the good?

If you pay attention to your inner life, you will see that the emergence of choices, efforts, and intentions is a fundamentally mysterious process.

Decisions, intentions, efforts, goals, willpower, etc., are causal states of the brain, leading to specific behaviors, and behaviors lead to outcomes in the world. Human choice, therefore, is as important as fanciers of free will believe. But the next choice you make will come out of the darkness of prior causes that you, the conscious witness of your experience, did not bring into being.

Where is the freedom in being perfectly satisfied with your thoughts, intentions, and subsequent actions when they are the product of prior events that you had absolutely no hand in creating?

Despite our attachment to notions of free will, most us know that disorders of the brain can trump the best intentions of the mind.

Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.

Our wills are simply not of own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have

But you would not know this from reading Chomsky. For him, intentions do not seem to matter. Body count is all.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"

If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power. Instead focus on your purpose, on your most authentic and fundamental intentions.

We all got our reasons...good men and bad men. It's all a matter of where you stand.

I guess most of 'em mean well.' 'Someday you can build a boat from meaning well and see how floats.' 'Tried that. Sank with me on it.

Un hombre que dedica toda su atención a hacer el bien y ninguna a las consecuencias es un hombre peligroso.

Her father gave a sad smile at that. "Believe it or not, we all want what's best. The root o' the world's ills is that no one can agree on what it is.