Quotes About Intentions

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.

Stars are much further away from where they are now for those who have no dreams and no intentions to reach them!

Never mind your intentions. Communication is about what others hear with your words.

Make no mistake about it,' George W. Bush told the American people the day after the attacks. 'We will win.' We haven't. The world is not less, but more, dangerous. It's one thing to launch a war with certain goals and not to attain those goals. It's another entirely to declare war and achieve the exact opposite of your stated intentions. If there is anything worse than losing a war, surely this is it?

Recognize that most of our interactions with products are actually interactions with a complex system: good design requires consideration of the entire system to ensure that the requirements, intentions, and desires at each stage are faithfully understood and respected at all the other stages.

If you want to know what a person's story is about, just ask them what they want.

I wanted her to know just how much I loved her while also letting her know that she bore not one particle of blame for not loving me back. But I wouldn't say that. It was rosepetals I wanted to throw, not a poison dart.

nobody is perfect. Anyone can backslide, even with the best of intentions. That be what the road to hell is paved with, they say.

didn't just die. In a very real sense, they were murdered by willful ignorance." "That is too harsh, Admiral. They meant well, as did we. The difference is that we formed our intentions based on our ideals and what we saw. They formed their intentions based on their ideals and what they wanted to see.

if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

I understand, Catherine," he said. What does he mean that he understands, Catherine wondered. Something I failed to hear, no doubt, she thought, though their words had been so few that she could not imagine what. But she quickly decided not to exasperate him ;by a question; she was sure of his kind intention, and deeply touched by it.

If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.

Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel.

When having a goal takes your focus off God and His daily intentions for you, it can cause trouble. Proverbs

Every step in the direction of Fascism—every plucked feather—causes damage to individuals and to society; each makes the next step shorter. To hold the line, we must recognize that despots rarely reveal their intentions and that leaders who begin well frequently become more authoritarian the longer they hold power.

Power is, as we know, an addiction prone to abuse. Even those who enter public life with the best of intentions are susceptible to its pull. We ought, therefore, to be mindful of our own bad habit—which is to look for and expect easy answers when the most serious problems we face are anything but.

To hold the line, we must recognize that despots rarely reveal their intentions and that leaders who begin well frequently become more authoritarian the longer they hold power.

Even those who enter public life with the best of intentions are susceptible to its pull. We ought, therefore, to be mindful of our own bad habit—which is to look for and expect easy answers when the most serious problems we face are anything but.

She was a poisoner at heart; she wanted to be sure I came as villain, not savior.

But the road to hell, as we remember, is paved with good intentions. That they are a near total failure should seem obvious by now.