Quotes About Intention

Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.

The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.

You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with.

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.

I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.

19But Joseph replied, "Don't be afraid of me. Am I God, that I can punish you? 20You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good.

Do not try to predict the effects your actions will have, because you can't. Instead, encourage people to adapt their actions to realize the overall intention as they observe what is actually happening. Give them boundaries which are broad enough to take decisions for themselves and act on them.

Having worked out what matters most now, pass the message on to others and give them responsibility for carrying out their part in the plan. Keep it simple. Don't tell people what to do and how to do it. Instead, be as clear as you can about your intentions. Say what you want people to achieve and, above all, tell them why. Then ask them to tell you what they are going to do as a result.

response entirely off its own bat.29 When asked about an official reply, Churchill responded that he had no intention of replying to Hitler himself, as he was not on speaking terms with him.

Choose Your Attitude—The fish guys are aware that they choose their attitude each day. One of the fish guys said, "When you are doing what you are doing, who are you being? Are you being impatient and bored, or are you being world famous? You are going to act differently if you are being world famous." Who do we want to be while we do our work?

It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.

For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has nothing to do with seriousness. The comic can be very serious. The trouble with the earnest is that it seeks to be commended. It seeks to be praised for its intention more than for what it is saying.

Jade would never kill anyone just because. With reason, though, yeah. Twice-over, with interest, and more than a little attitude, maybe even something a little extra, for style points.

While most of what you think of as memory involves retrieving information from the past, prospective memory, or memory for intentions, refers to our ability to remember our intention to carry out some specific action at a future time or circumstance.

we do this by forming a mental connection between what we want to remember to do and the future circumstances in which we intend to do it.

The verbalization that I use myself to organize my intended effort is, "next time I'm dreaming I want to remember to recognize I'm dreaming." The "when" and the "what" of the intended action must be clearly specified.

3   See yourself becoming lucid. As you continue to focus on your intention to remember to recognize the next time you are dreaming, imagine that you are back in the dream from which you just awakened. Imagine that this time you recognize that you are dreaming.

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.

To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.

wishes are like magnifying glasses they enlarge and focus an intention that is already inside us.

Start with the end in mind.

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

shape our reality through the exercise of intention, through the application of our free will as conscious beings.