Quotes About Intention

Some people us language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead.

It is only in Christ that we will find the spirit, the substance, the strength, the stamina, and the skill to engage each other in ways that will enable us to move forward as God intends.

Now, revealing that you're a keeper is no guarantee that this guy won't just walk away. Some men really are just sport fishing and have no intention of doing anything more than throwing back the women they bed. If this is the cae with this man, then let him walk-what do you care? He's not the guy you're looking for.

If he says something silly like "I'm just trying to make it day by day," run. If his long-term plan is the same as his short-term plan, get out. Immediately. Because his answer tells you that he hasn't thought his life through, or he doesn't see you in it and so he has no reason to divulge the details to you.

when a man approaches you, he has a plan. And the main plan is to sleep with you, or to find out what it takes to sleep with you.

a man always wants something. Always. And when it comes to women, that plan is always to find out two things: (1) if you're willing to sleep with him, and (2) if you are, how much it will cost to get you to sleep with him.

It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

The universe doesn't give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.

If you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal - you have a wish.

Live life with a purpose and live it full out."

Your actions should be so dedicated that no one should have to ask you what you want."

I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.

The truth is, our best intentions often fail in the harsh light of how much you desire to engage in the very habit you're trying to eliminate. In psychology terms, your super-ego is no match for your id.

Does it really matter what you feel when you do something? Does it somehow make a difference if you're sorry when you go blasting your way over someone's life like a locomotive over a papier-mâché doll

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.

Every gift is edged.

My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.

My rule for the corporate stuff is the same as with my music - I do whatever means I can sleep at night and whatever means I can be dignified.

I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.

Sometimes how I explain myself to the media can come across in a slightly different way to how I would mean to say things.

There's a Slow Food movement. I think I'm part of the Slow Music movement.

You can manage your energy - just slow down and be.

Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.