#intent

It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action. ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#intention #kindness #logic #love #philosophy

But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended. ↗

— John Green

#fiction #imagination #intentional-fallcy #ontology #art

Through our intentions, a place no power can influence, we have the power to oppose. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#intentions #motives #oppose #motivational

There is always a gap between intention and action.. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#action

Did you really want to die?" "No one commits suicide because they want to die." "Then why do they do it?" "Because they want to stop the pain. ↗

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

#pain #suicide #die

Although goals are important, having a plan of action is vital to the success of those goals. Having a goal with no plan of action is like wanting to travel to a new destination without having a map. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#destination #dreams #goals #intent #motivational

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#became #cannot #characters #close #creator

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#afterwards #becoming #decided #drama #drama school

I know that Duke made a number of demands, including that the attorney general drop its investigation. We have no intention of asking the attorney general to do that. ↗

— Gray Davis

#attorney #attorney general #demands #drop #duke

I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions. ↗

— Jim Jeffords

#does #eye #i #intentions #know