Intent's Quotes

#1. You're trying your best to make people laugh; then if you fail, they hate you. But your intent's the same. It's not like you're trying to do evil to them.

Norm MacDonald

#2. This watching through cool intent eyes and delicately adjusting one factor or another till a man's fundamental instinct for self-preservation cracks, is savagery in its most pure, most polished and most highly evolved form.

Tana French

#3. Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

John M. Ford

#4. We know that after September 11, there were still terrorists around. We do get continuing information that they're intent on causing some damage and harm to not only U.S. interests but allied interests.

Richard Armitage

#5. As a filmmaker, it's not my intent to trigger or shape national discourse. My task is to make as powerful and understandable a film as I can. What happens next is what happens next.

Peter Landesman

#6. Even a bucket can be a weapon if it's wielded with malicious intent.

Jodi Taylor

#7. When confronted with life's obstacles... wreck everything in your path with deliberate intent on accomplishing your goals.

K.J. Folk

#8. If everyone's ready for a shot to start, except for one actor who's intent on getting to the bottom of their soul, it can be a bit annoying.

Ian Holm

#9. I'm worried about greenwashing. I think we should come down on it very, very hard, whether it's with criminal intent or actively deceptive.

John Elkington

#10. That's the sacred intent of life, of God
to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.

Sue Monk Kidd

#11. So you dared to walk into the lion's den."
She smiled up into his intent dark eyes. "As it turned out, there was no danger."
"No?" His voice held gently mocking note. "Look where it's led. You're in my bedroom with your dress undone.

Lisa Kleypas

#12. Whenever I work on a film, I have three rules. Only three and I tell them to every screenwriter. I say let's retain the spirit and the intent of the overall story. Let's make it the best film that we possibly can.

Nicholas Sparks

#13. An object imbued with intent - it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent - it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.

John Hockenberry

#14. The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent.

David Barton

#15. That's the song for the herbs?" "Mm-hmm." "It makes them happy?" "It makes them work," the woman says. "Prayer puts the world to work. The action you take is your expression of intent. The world listens. And then works. Go

Daniel Jose Older

#16. Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.

Katy Perry

#17. The absence of inner intent for kashays is the same as the inner intent of the absolute Self (Parmatma). If one's kashays are gone, then he becomes the 'owner' of the whole universe.

Dada Bhagwan

#18. Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It is a matter of what we are saying with our whole being, moving with resolute intent and clarity of mind into the flow of God's action.

Dallas Willard

#19. The main thing in measuring integrity is someone's motive and intent, not how many records they sell. Our intent in Ministry was never to be big. We just wanted to make enough money to live and to buy a studio, which we have done in Austin.

Al Jourgensen

#20. Joanna's quietly intent nature contrasted sharply with Holly's vibrancy. While Miss Brewster's flirtation stroked his ego, the spiritual maturity Miss Robbin's exhibited commanded his admiration and respect.

Karen Witemeyer

#21. There were no hundreds and hundreds of cases of domestic violence. I would have no knowledge of that or have any idea how I would authenticate that. That was never the intent of the writer's conversation with me.

Jerry Angelo

#22. An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

Albert Hadley

#23. Perhaps the most admirable reason to seek rapport would be to put someone at ease, but if that is a stranger's entire intent, a far simpler way is to just leave the woman alone. Charm

Gavin De Becker

#24. AS a matter of fact, God isn't asking you to be thankful. He's asking you to give thanks. There's a big difference. One response involves emotions, the other your choices, your decisions about a situation, your intent, your 'step of faith.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#25. If Richard trusted anyone with his life, it would have been Kendrick of Artane. But trust Kendrick with his woman? Not a chance in hell. He strode across the lists, intent on intercepting Artane's lad before he spotted Jessica.

Lynn Kurland

#26. Crossing the uplands of time, Skirting the borders of night, Scaling the face of the peak of dreams, We enter the region of light, And hastening on with eager intent, Arrive at the rainbow's end, And here uncover the pot of gold Buried deep in the heart of a friend.

Grace Coolidge

#27. The world will be hostile, it will be suspicious of your intent, it will misinterpret you, it will inject you with doubt, it will flatter you into self-sabotage. What the world is, more than anything? It's indifferent.

Maria Semple

#28. That for which, you are deserving; will come before you effortlessly. Your purity is required. What is required for your purity? [The intent of] 'May no living being in this world be hurt by me'. If anyone hurts you, it happens as per the law [nature's law].

Dada Bhagwan

#29. The Fishable Waters Act shares the same intent of the Clean Water Act by proposing to fulfill goals that have not yet been met to restore and maintain the biological integrity of the nation's waters. The intent of the bill is to enhance the Clean Water Act instead of undercutting it.

Stephen Moyer

#30. We need somebody that can unify a country in spite of a vocal powerful media that's intent on division. It's not about winning the media. It's about winning the people, and I don't think it's necessarily persuasive to eat - to cannibalize yourself. I think that you have to pick the winner.

Greg Gutfeld

#31. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

Saul Bass

#32. Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

Carlos Castaneda

#33. Now here I am almost 52 years old, it's really easy. I'm way more at peace. But when you're a competitor, and you're as intent on becoming the best in the world as I was, it comes with consequences.

Kirk Gibson

#34. I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.

Laura Donnelly

#35. Conscience exists as a reality-check for intent, but it's not intent itself. Anyone who really plays, explores and celebrates life has the right intent.

Darrell Calkins

#36. My favorite recordings are the ones that feel like there were no middlemen in the creation. That's the biggest problem with most films and records being made today - too many people involved. I think it dilutes the artist's intent and inspiration.

M. Ward

#37. There is the intent of the writer and the interpretation by the artist. What the writer intended and what the artist interprets is not a 1-to-1 translation. It's a crossing of ideas that generates the stories that you see in print.

Jim Lee

#38. When I started out as a novelist, I thought I was going to be a private-eye writer. That was my intent, and that's what I studied, I mean, scholarly.

Greg Rucka

#39. Each spoke in her own language; neither understood the other's words; both were very watchful, and intent to deduce from look and manner, what the unintelligible words meant.

Charles Dickens

#40. I started writing with intent to publish on January 1st, 1985, when, as my New Year's resolution, I resolved to finish a book before I turned 25. It's one of only a few New Year's resolutions I remember keeping - I finished that one with a couple weeks to spare.

Holly Lisle

#41. I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.

Gautama Buddha

#42. Solutions: ( ... ) Seek an understanding of the other sex's best intent.

Warren Farrell

#43. I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.

Ulysses S. Grant

#44. The question, 'Why does she stay?' is code for some people for, 'It's her fault for staying,' as if [domestic violence] victims intentionally choose to fall in love with men intent upon destroying us.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

#45. To be touched with intent. To be looked at. Really looked at. For a man to see me, truly see me. That recognition, acknowledgment, that appreciation. That's what I want. Where is that? Where did that go?

Cat Porter

#46. Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.

Suzy Kassem

#47. Jim Rohn's law of diminishing intent says that the longer you delay something, the less probability you have of actually doing it.

Michael Hyatt

#48. It seems like it has kind of taken off where people are saying 'oh it's a female character' and it just kind of grew. But my intent in saying that was humour. You know, you have to show Link when you create a trailer for a Zelda announcement.

Eiji Aonuma

#49. There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.

Haruki Murakami

#50. Unfortunately, that was not my father's intent at all, and my eyes widened in horror as my father leaned over and yelled in his booming, cheerful voice, "HELLOOOO, VICTOR," while tossing a live bobcat on him. Most

Jenny Lawson

#51. Don't stray from your Heart's intent.

Rumi

#52. The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.

Larry Wall

#53. I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, "Why are you being calculated?" Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect.

Billy Corgan

#54. He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.

John Buchan

#55. What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.

Creed Bratton

#56. What followed was for him a very entertaining spectacle, with one of Edward's brothers seemingly intent upon the most subtle of seductions and the other barely able to force malmsey past the gorge rising in his throat.

Sharon Kay Penman

#57. You want to help. That's fine but do you know how you want to help? The intent may be good, but without the way, you are lost.

Arnab Ray

#58. Nature's intent is neither food, nor drink, nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else in which God is left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly nature seeks, hunts, tries to ferret out the track on which God may be found.

Meister Eckhart

#59. As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers.

John Bolton

#60. Knowledge is never enough. Even action, if it's just following a prescribed way, will never fully express your potential.

Kamal Ravikant

#61. I mean, as you start to scratch the surface - and that's what I think the intent of these films are. Here's a little bit of something if you're interested go read about it and it's a little bit more fascinating. It kind of is.

Chris Henchy

#62. To really know what progress we're making for children, we have to know how many children we have to begin with. The simple act of counting is an expression of a country's intent to take care of its people.

Harry Belafonte

#63. When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience on stage with the actors and to get them thoroughly involved in what's going on.

Jules Feiffer

#64. My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important.

Lea DeLaria

#65. Looks can't hide your true identity. It's the eyes that give you away ... the soul behind them. The intent. The Shadows.

Vicki Pettersson

#66. The catalyst of action is intent.
It's the other end of the bullet.

Jonathan Hickman

#67. Once we merge with the Core
Trusting the efficiency
Of our Soul's intent
The Flow becomes
The only possible direction

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#68. Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What do you want the reader to get out of it? What do you want to get out of it. It's also about making a serious time commitment and getting the project done.

Suze Orman

#69. Taking away a person's control of her own life - meaning her bank account - is one of the greatest infringements a democracy can impose, especially when it applies to young people. It is an infringement even if the intent may be perceived as benign and socially valid.

Stieg Larsson

#70. Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Raymond E. Feist

#71. If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

George Orwell

#72. From my experience, the only thing you can do is take what's written on the page and try, through your own curiosity and investigation, to make it your own and honor what the original intent was.

Colin Farrell

#73. Sometimes a loved one might not 'spit' the message in the most tender or poetic fashion that suits you, but don't allow a rugged style to blind you from a loving intent. It's the spirit of the message one must receive beyond [the] perception of one's senses; be mindful of hearing with the heart.

T.F. Hodge

#74. Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.

Scott Belsky

#75. The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

#76. You are one of the noblest of God's creations. His intent is that your life be gloriously beautiful regardless of your circumstances. As you are grateful and obedient, you can become all that God intends you to be.

Richard G. Scott

#77. I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

Michael J. Fox

#78. It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.

Duke Ellington

#79. The body is more than the temple of the soul. It's the grounded celebration of its rapture.

S. Kelley Harrell

#80. Intent of complete surrender (devotion) is worship itself. Complete surrender with (full understanding and real) knowledge is a very high level of worship. Even the surrender done with relative knowledge (ignorance of one's own real self) can be called worship.

Dada Bhagwan

#81. A person's current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.

Kim Ki-duk

#82. It is intent which establishes one's consequential outcomes.

T.F. Hodge

#83. The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.

Anthony Bourdain

#84. In-depth reporting is expensive. It is much cheaper to have people sit around or on remotes and talk about politics like it's baseball. But there is also a predetermined intent in terms of what is reported and how it is reported, and the degree to which a story is pushed. Both have bad effects.

Robert Kane Pappas

#85. My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

Ulysses S. Grant

#86. For him, conscious intent was a form of prediction, and prediction is only possible when the status quo has reason to assume it will meet no significant opposition.

William S. Burroughs

#87. You've been given the innate power to shape your life ... but you cannot just speak change, you have to LIVE change. Intent paired with action builds the bridge to success. You can't just want it; you have to do it, live it ... BE it! Success isn't something you have, it's something you DO!

Steve Maraboli

#88. It's the intent, not the word, that makes something harsh.

Lisa McMann

#89. Have intention, sacred will travel.

S. Kelley Harrell

#90. It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

Rick Moody

#91. I often said that when they put me in jail in 1981 it was not the FBI's intent, but they saved my life. They only have seven days in a week, and by the time I went to jail I was drinking eight.

Charles Brandt

#92. Even when I can play Europe's most precious keyboard, to have to listen to people who don't understand, or do not want to understand, and who are incapable of grasping my intent, whatever I play, does surely forfeit my lust for playing at all.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#93. Keith felt huge inside of him, remained still for only a long moment, didn't seem to care about giving Shane time to adjust, just seemed intent on moving. Fucking. Rutting. His

S.E. Jakes

#94. The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent.

David Lloyd

#95. The world's existence is with common intent. No one has ownership of it. One may do whatever suits him. You cannot criticize him; you cannot say, 'This is wrong'. You cannot even think it. Everything is under nature's management.

Dada Bhagwan

#96. Magic is magic. It isn't good or bad in and of itself. It's the intent that matters. Ideally, you treat magic as a gift and you use it to influence natural forces to help and to heal. It's a positive act.

Dani Harper

#97. Praise is declaration, a victory cry, proclaiming faith to stand firm in the place God has given you. Praise is a proclamation that the enemy's intent to plunder you will not rock you. Praise declares that you will not be moved by the enemy's attempt to snatch you away.

Darlene Zschech

#98. So intent was Frank upon solving the puzzle of Lemarchand's box that he didn't hear the great bell begin to ring.

Clive Barker

#99. Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing.

William Shakespeare

#100. This proclamation of intent and entitlement is not something you can do just once and then expect miracles; it's something you must do daily, forever.

Elizabeth Gilbert