My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there’s no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.
My intent for EPs – and, really, my philosophy on my music – is that every single song has to be worth it.
You might not get it right all the time, but you have to be genuine in your intent.
What I do is that I really, really try hard to make sure the things that I do comes from a pure place in my heart and my intent is a pure one.
Intent to harm America is not required to make the mishandling of information criminal – it simply requires that the actor was grossly negligent.
What I heard my mom always say was that, while she was never naive, she understood the FBI’s intent was, obviously, to break up the family.
I have realised taking a stand is tough, but what’s tougher is maintaining it and letting go of all those who doubt your intent.
If we were all to chase every squirrel that comes running along in the form of a personal dispute or a mischaracterization of someone, or someone’s integrity or intent, we’d be very busy doing that and not focusing on the government, on that which we need to reform internally.
Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person’s actions and how similar situations have been handled in the past.
Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That’s really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape.
This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.
The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it’s being implemented is a disaster.
I’m delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn’t always do it in the way you expect.
Everything that I do is with a purpose and intent of wanting to make a difference.
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.
Corruption requires looking into someone’s soul and making judgments about their intent.
If your only intent is to be seen, you’ll never be seen. If your intent is to be happy, comfortable, genuine, and true in craft, you’re destined to be noticed.
When you’re fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
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.
What is the quality of your intent?
I don’t have a ton of experience, because I date with the intent to marry… It’s how I want a family and how I would want someone to treat my daughter.
Sometimes a young person is so intent on proving themselves that they don’t actually listen to people who know things.
I believe if you start a business with the intent of making it huge, you’re already prioritizing the wrong thing. Size is important, but it’s a byproduct of a whole bunch of other things that are worth way more of your mental energy – customers, service, quality.
Europe is kind of fragmented. Africa is nascent; we’ve made a few investments, including four in Egypt. I visit 50-60 cities and 20-25 countries a year. The intent is to be a global fund, which takes time and prioritization.
People tell me about my record in ICC events, but frankly speaking, the intent has always been the same.
It’s not my intent to write definitive history. ‘Dead Wake’ isn’t a definitive history of the sinking of the Lusitania. It’s my account.
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.
The identity of political donors should be disclosed and bureaucratic rules should not circumvent the original intent of federal law or interfere with the public’s ability to hold these organizations accountable.
Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
I have always maintained that if you work hard, it won’t go waste, as recognition will come to you at some stage, whether in studies or sports. You need to have good intentions and intent to move ahead in life as well as in sports.
When you’re an artist, you can’t write with the intent of affecting anyone.
I believe the only way we’ll be able to solve infant mortality – and other huge social problems – is by designing solutions for those with the greatest intent to carry it out.
The most astonishing subset of the Deep Web is a collection of dark alleys called the Dark Web. The Dark Web is generally thought of as a collection of criminal elements intent on subverting the law, stealing our money, and possibly kidnapping our daughters.
When I was a prosecutor, I got to shoot at the range so I could explain to juries how the firearm worked. You know, to prove intent or to prove that the person didn’t accidentally discharge the firearm, I would have to learn everything about the firearm.
It’s like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.
When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.
Our intent is to attack for 90 minutes.
We have learned from history that change is never easy, that it usually doesn’t look pretty, especially in today’s politically-charged environment where intent and actions can readily be misconstrued and judged.
On signing day, my mom brought me the national letter of intent to Arkansas. I should feel like I’m making the right decision. You get that many people telling you that. I had been dreaming about it. I signed ‘No’ where I was supposed to sign my name and put an exclamation point.
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
My intent when I moved to L.A. was to get in good with the comedy clubs and, eventually, try to break into Comedy Central and have my half hour special.
Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
It was my full intent as a teenager to smash capitalism and eat dumpster food.
I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.
You cannot classify a whole group of people based upon their religion and determine their intent. That’s not fair. It’s not American.
Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.
I think all of the great developers start not with the intent to make money, but with the intent to make something fun that’s in their passion zone.
As an actress, I never went to film school, and I think if I had gone to film school, I would have started with a great advantage. If you have a strong intent to do anything in life, you can do it, but it always helps to have formal training.
Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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.
My intent was to go to law school… And then what I realised quickly is what I wanted was to be on L.A. Law.
Bad actors like Russia, Iran, and China have demonstrated time and time again they have both the capabilities and the intent to use the cyber domain as an operating space to wreak havoc.
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.
I think when your intent and your energy is authentic and it’s real and it’s of the moment and it’s necessary, it will reach the people it needs to reach.
Every writer must find a way of writing that tells the reader: This is me and no one else. The Voice can be idiosyncratic, but it cannot be obscure. It is a blend of style and content and intent and rhythm and pure personality.
While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.
Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return.
