is intention important or only results?

Answer 1

Without intention..
There are no results..

To think we control everything and the out come is....
There are other intentions involved...always

Answer 2

I think both are important, but... there's a difference
intention & results exchange their importance upon the situation they are taking, which means......
in business, Results is the most important thing & don't EVER dream or imagine that ur boss will appriciate ur intentions
But in some religions & some social situations, intentions are very important & very valuabel
exampel: u intend to make a good thing in christmass but u didn't have enough money or just didn't have the time to do it, then in this situation ur intention will be taken with

Answer 3

Yes, intention is important and will have an effect on the outcome (results) but without knowledge and a plan then you cannot be certain of the results at all. You've heard the old saying, "The best laid plans of mice and men..." For the best results of any endeavor one has to have considered all aspects and factors in order to have the results you intented.

Answer 4

Intentions are just laid-out plans in the mind. Results won't come until your intended actions have been carried out. Some good intentions may get poor results, and bad intentions may work out well. It's a tricky world out there. But no matter how frustrating the outcome is,..if your heart's good intention has worked through it,.. it's enough to say you did your best. Intentions are favored more than their results;..though actions speak more.

Answer 5

The best of intentions sometimes lead to disaster! What is important here is the motivation behind the intention. One has to be honest with himself and that will bring satisfying results. So I would say that both are important and it all depends what kind of results you wish to obtain!

Have a beautiful day!

Answer 6

That would depend, I surmise, on the task. In some cases, intention alone will suffice albeit only adequately. In other cases, results are the final test of success. In some cases, both intention and results are important.

Some examples:

Both important, intention and results: A person is drowning. Results are the final arbiter of success. However, if you dive in the water and reach the person and calm them so they feel as if you cared and were willing to try -- the know your intention is to save them, in other words -- you have done something important. You have given them hope.

Intention is important: Your best friend wants to read the newest novel everyone is talking about. You wait in line for hours to buy it but, by the time you reach the counter, they are sold out. Your friend will perceive your intention as a sign of deep friendship and it becomes important, perhaps more important than actually getting the book itself if he/she considers how long you were willing to wait in line to please them.

Results are important: You are asked to take your friend to the hospital for emergency treatment. You intend to get them there, but get lost on the way. Even though you want to get them there, you fail to do so because you never did learn how to drive properly and read street signs. You "coasted" on your skills. The result is pain and suffering or worse for your friend.

Answer 7

It depends on what you consider important. A court might consider intention important, but a business is not likely to. I think most people would say that results are more important than intention, but that's not to say that intention has no importance.

Intention matters more for the future of similar actions and calculating future actions, but not as much for the present one. For example, say I was a golfer and I hit a great shot right on the green. For that stroke intention really didn't matter, the result did. But if I were going to bet someone on whether or not I could do again, my intention from that stroke would be of much greater significance. If I had done what I intended I would have much more confidence than if I was actually aiming (for whatever reason) at the snack cart and accidentally hit the green. Of course, in the bet the ultimate result is what really matters, but intention still matters for the arguably more import matter of actually taking the bet in the first place.

Now many people refer to intent versus results in matters of charity. People will ask whether someone who did a charitable act for an uncharitable purpose still did a good thing. Say someone decided make themselves look good for a PR campaign by doing charity work. The results are important. After all, the purpose of charity was still fulfilled. But the person didn't do it in a charitable manner. Do the ends justify the means? Once again, in that instance I would say that they do because the object of charity was fulfilled, but intention is still important for future actions. For example, say thousands of possible contributors to charity read an article about your selfishly motivated charity work. Finding out that you just did it for PR disgusts many of them and leaves them cynical and turned-off to the idea of doing charity at all. In that case, you did one incident of charity for a selfish purpose and therefore stifled thousands of charity acts that would have taken place otherwise. Of course intention only happens to matter more in that hypothetical situation. It is possible that the article could have been some inspiring b.s. written by your p.r. man which actually got thousands of people to do charitable work. The thing is though, if you did it with bad intentions, you leave open the possibility that something bad will come of it. By doing it with good intentions you greatly reduce or even nullify that risk.

Answer 8

Results!

Answer 9

Intention it is.

An intention, whether good or bad, when materialized into an action might lead to a good or bad result. To put it in another way, a bad result might happen from a good intention, or a good result might happen from a bad intention. The best is to be wise to decide whether the intention is worthy enough to put into action.

Answer 10

I think that intention, is what you would want it to be. You might intent to do something and then decide you do not want to do it, but, what is important was your intention. It could be results, if you complete what your were intentionally trying to do.