Quotes with intent

  • A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
  • Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
  • If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
  • The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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  • William Law Be intent on the perfection of the present day.
    William Law
    English priest (1686 - 1761)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Lao-Tzu A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • William Blake A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Billy Tauzin And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Anthony Holden Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Clothe with life the weak intent, let me be the thing I meant.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Bo Bennett Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • John Wooden For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Buddha Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I seek through comprehensive anticipatory design science and its reductions to physical practices to reform the environment instead of trying to reform humans, being intent thereby to accomplish prototyped capabilities of doing more with less...
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Brendan Francis If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Bob Dole Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • George Santayana Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • E. B. White Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Elizabeth Bishop The art of losing isn't hard to masters; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
    Elizabeth Bishop
    American poet and short-story writer (1911 - 1979)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
    The C++ Programming Language p.9
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • B. C. Forbes The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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