Quotes About Intentions

Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal.

So remember, if you're feeling bitter or sorry for yourself about what you've done, and how much good you've accomplished or if you find yourself more than anyone else talking about the good you've done, you're doing it for the wrong reasons, because it should be the default.

Curing America's racial pathology couldn't be done with good intentions or presidential elections.

The possession of a representation or the exercise of a judgment is not coextensive with the life of consciousness. Rather, consciousness is a network of signification intentions which are sometimes clear to themselves and sometimes, on the contrary, lived rather than known.

Of course the Catholic ethic was an ethic of intentions. But the concrete intentio of the single act determined its value. And the single good or bad action was credited to the doer determining his temporal and eternal fate. Quite realistically the Church recognized that man was not an absolutely clearly defined unity to be judged one way or the other, but that his moral life was normally subject to conflicting motives and his action contradictory.

people around you filter information, often with good intentions.

Your intentions will be good. Without consideration and forethought, however, your actions could still be evil. That is the problem, of course, evil is always easy and resisting it is never so. Evil is relentless; and anyone, if they tire, if they are not vigilant, can fall prey to it.

As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.

Criminals have the same aspirations as everyone else. That's why they become criminals.

Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up unannounced.

Nevertheless I would be a hypocrite not to anticipate that the good intentions I brought to The Prince will also be the root of some other man's evil, if only because the way to the house of the Devil is the same for the good man and the bad - and the journey just as necessary for them both. The times change, but the nature of men does not.

Incidentally, no matter how fierce a guardian animal spirit may seem, its possessor is in no danger because the power animal is absolutely harmless. It is only a source of power; it has no aggressive intentions. It only comes to you because you need help.

Goodly intentions are no use without goodly sums of money, Watson.

Every time I hear somebody say, 'Well, I just want to help people,' I want to punch them in the face," said Vicki Westbrook. "Those are the people that are usually harming the people the most.

la distorsión cada vez más evidente entre las intenciones de los hombres políticos y las consecuencias reales de sus actos entrañaba algo completamente malsano e incluso maléfico

Not all of our heartless plans work as we intend; nor do all of our good intentions. We are where we are, and we can rarely predict where we will go, no matter how firm our beliefs.

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually just the pretexts for it.

We have seen that experience depends on the way we invest psychic energy—on the structure of attention. This, in turn, is related to goals and intentions. These processes are connected to each other by the self, or the dynamic mental representation we have of the entire system of our goals. These are the pieces that must be maneuvered if we wish to improve things.

there are enough exceptions in every culture to show that goals are quite flexible. Individuals who depart from the norms—heroes, saints, sages, artists, and poets, as well as madmen and criminals—look for different things in life than most others do. The existence of people like these shows that consciousness can be ordered in terms of different goals and intentions. Each of us has this freedom to control our subjective reality.

Do you realize that everyone, absolutely everyone on this planet—grumpy office workers, arguing children, fickle spouses, the "narrow-minded," the extremists—all think they're doing their very best? So how do you get through to someone who thinks they're doing their very best? How would someone get through to you?

first get clear on how you want to feel in your life and then create intentions for getting there.

Remember, I define the Creation Frequency as that place where your intentions and desires resonate with the intentions and desires of the Universe —that sweet spot where you are "in tune" with life.

Ideological and political intolerance, even with the best and most sincere intentions, produces results that are the direct opposite of those intended.

Life is much richer and more complex than even the most perfect plans to make it better. It ultimately takes vengeance for attempts to impose abstract schemes, even with the best of intentions. Perestroika has made us understand this about our past, and the actual experience of recent years has taught us to reckon with the most general laws of civilization.