Quotes About Intentions

Flattery and insults raise the same question: what do you want?

NOT to compliment people on their physical features (unless you are completely genuine) because people will often see it as though you just want something from them–and it is often interpreted as you either want to sell them something or have sex with them.

Although, generally speaking, it is best NOT to compliment people on their physical features (unless you are completely genuine) because people will often see it as though you just want something from them–and it is often interpreted as you either want to sell them something or have sex with them. However, if that is your intention, go ahead and compliment them on their physical features (as long as you are genuine about it and mean what you say).

No. I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. The person who craves a moral blank check of that kind, has dishonest intentions, whether he admits it to himself or not.

Sana, sende gördükleri iyi ÅŸeyler yüzünden zarar vermek, seni incitmek isteyen insanlar da olacakt?r.

You need no proof, no reasons, no success, you need not achieve in fact the good of others—all you need to know is that your motive was the good of others, not your own. Your only definition of the good is a negation: the good is the 'non-good for me.

Si las acciones propias son honradas, uno no necesita la confianza de los demás, basta con la percepción racional de los otros. La persona que anhela un cheque moral en blanco de semejante género, lleva intenciones deshonestas, aunque no las exprese.

And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn't overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help you plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.

all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.

Still, for both policy and political reasons, I felt that progressives couldn't afford to ignore economics. Those of us who believed in the government's ability to solve big problems had an obligation to pay attention to the real-world impact of our decisions and not just trust in the goodness of our intentions.

I was occupied so entirely by each day, I felt detached from anything so large as a month or a year. History didn't cross my mind. Now it does. Now I know, whatever your burdens, to hold yourself apart from the lot of more powerful men is an illusion. On that awful day in January 1961, Lumumba paid with a life and so did I. On the wings of an owl the fallen Congo came to haunt even our little family, we messengers of goodwill adrift on a sea of mistaken intentions.

By pure mistake, his implementation is sometimes more pure than his intentions. But mostly it is the other way around. Mostly he shouts, "Praise be!" while the back of his hand knocks you flat.

Stalin's moods were becoming almost as difficult to parse as the intentions of the Soviet Union's external enemies.

To remind yourself of your intentions and get yourself into the spirit of your dreams, read through your dream journal at bedtime. Learning to remember your dreams may take particular effort at first, but if you persist, you will almost certainly succeed—and may find yourself effortlessly remembering four or more dreams per night.

We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their actions

Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.

We project our intentions on the behavior of others.

It simply makes no difference how good the rhetoric is or even how good the intentions are; if there is little or no trust, there is no foundation for permanent success. Only basic goodness gives life to technique.

My duplicity will breed distrust, and everything I do—even using so-called good human relations techniques—will be perceived as manipulative. It simply makes no difference how good the rhetoric is or even how good the intentions are; if there is little or no trust, there is no foundation for permanent success.

Consider the possibility that what he says may be projection on his part, and that his sensitivity to women's issues is merely a means of masking his own rocky history and questionable intentions.

Figure out what people really care about, not what they say they care about.

There's a pattern here. In summing up the language of matter, space, and time, I concluded that they are measured by human goals, not just by a scale, a clock, and a tape measure. Now we see that the fourth major category in conceptual semantics, causality, also cares about our intentions and interests.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day your actions belie your intentions.