Quotes About Intention

I just-I don't want to get involved with you Jackson," I said, the words tumbling out. "You're a nice guy, but then, when it comes down to it-you're not, really.

Love is a verb, not a noun. It requires action; intention. In love, there is no being, only doing.

The normal form of motion always involves telos or goal," I say, trying to get a word in edgewise. "Motion involves the transition from an acorn to an oak. Newton made violent motion the paradigm for all motion because it was the perfect description of the actions of William of Orange, the usurper whom the Whigs put on the throne in England. The impetus for all motion now came from without. There was no telos. All motion was a function of human will and intention.

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

There is only a certain amount of kindness in the world…just as there is a certain amount of light. We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things…Choose a place where you won't do very much harm and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

You can when you mean to,' said Maurice gently. 'You can do anything once you know what it is.

There is a certain amount of kindness, just as there is a certain amount of light," he continued in measured tones. "We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm — yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

as you believe so shall it be done unto you.

A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a worthy predetermined job, because that's what he decided to do ... deliberately.

WE BECOME WHAT WE THINK ABOUT

One can, in fact, do nothing at all for love, although one can do everything out of love.

Bilin ki büyük hayatlara niyet edenler büyük günahlar?n kefaretini göze almal?..

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.

Do not hold the idea, "Well, I know what they are going to say or do, but I'll do as best I can." Disregard that! Know the spirit with which ye do a thing is the spirit that will respond to thee!

What one thinks continually, they become; what one cherishes in their heart and mind they make a part of the pulsation of their heart, through their own blood cells, and build in their own physical, that which its spirit and soul must feed upon, and that with which it will be possessed, when it passes into the realm for which the other experiences of what it has gained here in the physical plane, must be used.

Rien en art ne doit ressembler à un accident, même le mouvement.

smart people don't do stupid things for no reason, so one must locate why they are doing something that looks stupid from our point of view but may make sense from their point of view.

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121)

Instead of waiting for our attention to be pulled towards something unusual, we can set out frameworks for 'directing' our attention in a conscious manner.