Quotes About Intention

You Mean It You cook because you decide to cook. You decide to take it on and everything that comes with it. You cook because you mean it. Your heart and hands work more and more in alignment with your clear intention. You'll see it through because you decided to see it through—and because the work itself is making your love manifest. Food appears!

Ye who do truly and earnestly repent you of your sins, and are in love and charity with your neighbors, and intend to lead a new life.

"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done."

Safety doesn't happen by accident.

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.

I thought growing up was something that happened automatically as you got older. But it turns out it's something you have to choose to do.

Instead of counting your days, make your days count.

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

And do not say, regarding anything, "I am going to do that tomorrow," but only, "If God will."

It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy — the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted.

You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.

Creative intelligence was the means by which mental images and behaviors were intentionally combined to provide novel solutions for the problems that humans diagnosed and to construct new worlds for the opportunities humans envisioned.

Among the extremely diverse books lumped together as 'mysteries,' I shall try to judge each fairly according to the best standards of the type which the author intended to produce.

There are two ways to wash dishes: One is to wash them in order to make them clean; the other is to wash them in order to wash them.

The great Chinese sage Tranxu puts it marvelously: "When the archer shoots for nothing, he has all his skill. When he shoots for a brass buckle, he is already nervous. When he shoots for a prize of gold, he goes blind. He's out of his mind. He sees two targets. His skill has not changed. But the prize divides him. He cares. He thinks more of winning than of shooting. And the need to win drains him of power.

It would have been intended as a broad framework to guide future military activity, if not as a precisely worked-out blueprint.

You are meant to be here. There are no coincidences. It's all happening the way it was meant to be.

It is my intention at all times to see that my mother and my little brother are amply provided for.

'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.

A good way to tell if a psychic is authentic is, if they are going to verbalise these things, it should be with the intention of helping the person.

Persuasiveness takes finesse; it takes an understanding of human psychology. And intention is everything.