155 Quotes About Intent

Only when you observe with the intent to understand you will discover the deeper truth.

Sometimes it's not the intent, but the result, that matters.

He opened the book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path which keeps the indent of footsteps.

The colossal might of wickedness, he thought: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

Circumstances will continue to change. They will not adjust to you; you will have to adjust to them. Circumstances are without inner-intent and you are with inner-intent. To make the circumstances favorable is our job. Unfavorable circumstances are indeed favorable. One feels exhausted going up the stairs, and yet why does he climb them? There is the inner-intent that he will be able to go up; he will be able to take advantage of what is up there; that is why!

There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.

It wasn't the intent of term limits to make things run smoothly at the Capitol. It was the intent to make things run smoothly in citizens' lives.

It should be fun. That was the intent from the start.