Quotes About Intention

It seems to me that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to be able to do one thing at a time, one thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly. Unitasking.

It seems to me that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to do one thing at a time. One thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly, uni-tasking.

Evolution doesn't depend on will or intention to work; it is, almost by definition, an unconscious, unwilled process.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

The truth doesn't lie. It's up in your face. It's in your conscience. It challenges your very being with the intention of cleaning you of sin and its influence.

Whenever you try to say something in a sincere way, it gets communicated no matter what the genre.

I think my intention was there, and my love for the music was apparent. And there are very few singers who get up and desire to take the kinds of risks that jazz musicians routinely need to be taking.

If a firm hasn't hired a single female partner in its history, I don't think it will finally happen by accident.

I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.

I grew up in a house full of musicians, and my mum really taught me that when you listen to an album, you respect that it's somebody's art, and that the B-sides are just as important as the singles, and we should really listen to the album all the way through the way it was intended to be listened to.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

The time I spend in the morning - praying, sipping coffee, and coming up with my list - is a ritual I relish. I have done it for so long now that I subconsciously measure whether or not the things I'm doing match with what I should be doing, what I want to be doing, and the life I want to live.

At times when I am myself sitting at a retreat, and at the end I get into my car to drive away, I watch my hand move forward to turn on the radio. When I can be mindful, I notice the fact that I actually don't want in that moment to listen to the news or hear some music.

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

When you sketch a shoe but don't have the intention to do a proper shoe, it remains a curvy sketch with no detail. The shoe completely morphs to the body.

I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.

Today I set my mind and heart on a new path. I focus my energy on love, appreciation, and my highest possibilities.

- But we can't help falling in love. - We can't help defecating either. But we can choose where and when we are going to do it.

Love is certain, love is kind, love is yours and love is mine. But it isn't something that we find, its something that we do.

Cruel to be kind means that I love you.