#intent

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

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. ↗

— Xun Zi

#caused #evil #goodness #human #human nature

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#ask #best #cannot #even #few

We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#cooperation #create #deal #intentional #local

But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are. ↗

— John Cornyn

#around #border #came #coming #countries

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

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#degenerate #good #good intentions #hard #hard work

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me. ↗

— Fred Durst

#affected #against #emotionally #feel #got

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him. But as long as they can knock you back down, it seems like if you're an underdog again, and things do surface, and they think this is real, 'these guys' intentions are genuine and sincere,' it seems like they will embrace you again. ↗

— Fred Durst

#back #down #embrace #everybody #genuine

Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms. ↗

— John M. Ford

#also #been #course #culture #describe