Intention
Intention is an agent's specific purpose in performing an action or series of actions, the end or goal that is aimed at. Outcomes that are unanticipated or unforeseen are known as unintended consequences.
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Famous quotes containing the word intention:
“When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept—the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)
“The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)