Quotes About Intention

Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do.

You can do what you want but you cannot want what you want.

But for what it is worth, I don't think affirmations are sensitive to exactly how many times you write them, whether you use a keyboard or a pen, whether you throw away the paper you wrote on, how many weeks you do them for, or any other detail. I can't imagine the process of affirmations—if it works at all—is sensitive to the little details. I think a deep and consistent focus on what you want is all that is required. But that's just my gut feeling.

teleological systems are systems that are based on the end result produced by an action.

Good plans almost never contain the word somehow.

Whenever we think of ourselves doing something for someone else, we are in some way denying our own responsibility. Whatever we do is done because we choose to do it, and we make that choice because it is the one that satisfies us the most. Whatever we do for someone else we do because it fulfills a need we have.

Everyone in our culture desires to some extent to be loving, yet many are not in fact loving. I therefore conclude that the desire to love is not itself love. Love is as love does. Love is an act of will - namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love. No matter how much we may think we are loving, if we are in fact not loving, it is because we have chosen not to love and therefor do not love our good intentions.

Hast thou, then, nothing more to mention? Com'st ever, thus, with ill intention? Find'st nothing right on earth, eternally? MEPHISTOPHELES No, Lord! I find things, there, still bad as they can be. Man's misery even to pity moves my nature; I've scarce the heart to plague the wretched creature.

Actuar es fácil, pensar es difícil; actuar según se piensa es aún más difícil

Men get out of countenance with themselves and others because they treat the means as the end, and so, from sheer doing, do nothing, or, perhaps, just what they would have avoided.

So fühlt man Absicht und man ist verstimmt.

Denken ist einfach, handeln ist schwer, und die eigenen Gedanken in die Tat umzusetzen ist die schwierigste Sache auf der Welt. To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

He slammed out of the room, determined to speak with Captian Overly himself. If there was any way to get the Merhammer turned around short of holding a gun to the man,he would do it.

I wouldn't worry about him just yet, when I haven't decided whether or not I'm going to cut your throat

The decisive factor in every contact is that sooner or later the inner intention of the contact comes to the surface - not the outward, alleged or feigned goal.

Resolve to live as with all your might while you do live, and as you shall wish you had done ten thousand years hence.

My poetry is often criticized for a failure to communicate, but I take issue with this; my intention is to communicate and my feeling is that a poem that communicates something that's already known by the reader is not really communicating anything to him and in fact shows a lack of respect for him.

They can't foresee what we intend to do next. This is why they lose their nerve. They can't cross the zone of silence they herd us into. A zone bordered on their side by the distant din of their false accusations, and on our side by our silent final intentions.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?

What you intend and what you do not intend have smaller import than you might suspect. The question is not what you shall do with life but what life shall do with you.

I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended.

There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

God neither wills nor decrees anything without having long before directed it to its proper end. People