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Quotes About Intention

making. A habit requires no decision from me, because I've already decided.
~ Gretchen Rubin
I wasnt political in order to be political
~ Grotowski
Fabricando fit faber, age quod agis.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Every ideal comes from us as do all the amenities of life, in order to make our existence as simple reproducers, for which divine Providence solely intended us, less monotonous and less hard.
~ Guy de Maupassant
In some cases . . . the knife can turn savagely upon the person wielding it. . . . You use the knife carefully because you know it doesn't care who it cuts.
~ Guy Kawasaki
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.
~ Gypsy Rose Lee
I inherit the results of my acts of body, speech, and mind. My actions are my continuation.
~ Hanh Nhat Thich
Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back.
~ Hanif Kureishi
The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.
~ Hannah Arendt
Therefore, nothing happens in the world by chance. This having been established, it seems to follow that whatever is done in the world is done partly by divine agency and partly by our will.
~ Hannah Arendt
In the simplicity of everyday life one rule reigns supreme: Each good action, even for a 'bad cause,' adds some real goodness to the world; each bad action even for the most beautiful of all ideals makes our common world a little worse.
~ Hannah Arendt
In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.
~ Hannah Senesh
You're not a hypocrite. You aim toward lofty heights. The fact that your arrow cannot always reach them does not make you a hypocrite.
~ Harlan Coben
Hey, come on, Myron, that was just talk." Ned tried to smile his way out of it, but Myron kept his face stern. "It didn't mean anything.
~ Harlan Coben
Casual affairs never interested him. Every girl he met was gauged as a potential life partner, a soul mate, an undying love, as though every relationship should be a Carpenters song.
~ Harlan Coben
The Knobs started out as a project to do between Heartbreakers tours. I met the guys very organically, and I didnt really intend to audition a band, per se. But I had some songs and we just hit it off.
~ Mike Campbell
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
~ Maurice Ravel
I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again.
~ Kathy Mattea
I just know keeping track of what I'm doing and where I'm going is important to me.
~ Demetri Martin
I am more interested in how people interpret the phrase 'Elect The Dead' than what I may or may not have intended. I named the album after the track, which is a spiritual song about love, life and death and is the heaviest song on the album without having any heavy instruments.
~ Serj Tankian
The music you play, it's never intended for other people, so it's quite amazing dealing with stuff now, because obviously any tracks I write, a lot of folks are going to hear. It definitely plays on my mind quite a lot.
~ Ben Howard
So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.
~ Michael York
Direct your mind where you want it to travel instead of always going for the ride.
~ Kris Carr
Do not think about or do anything without a spiritual purpose, whereby it is done for God. For If you travel without purpose, you shall labor in vain.
~ Marcus Eremita