Quotes About Intention

When I ate slowly and deliberately, giving myself time to consider whether I actually wanted that next bite, I often discovered that I didn't.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.

Sometimes people have a hard time believing that a company is intentionally trying to make itself smaller.

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.

Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter.

When I have dinner, I get off my phone, smell my food, and chew it well.

Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.

If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral considerations, then it applies to very few acts of so-called 'pure evil' because most evildoers believe what they are doing is forgivable or justifiable.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

awareness changes the situation; any action carried out with awareness is transformed through awareness itself.

Lee stopped, looked north. I twas working almost like a plan. It was possible to see Intention in it...he gave no further directions...it had never really been in his hands at all. And yet his was the responsibility.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.es

The usefulness of living lies not in duration but in what you make of it. Some have lived long and lived little. See to it while you are still here. Whether you have lived enough depends not on a count of years but on your will.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said. -from That intention is judge of our actions

Following dragonflies didn't qualify as a clever or well-thought-out plan of action.

I told you, either use it or don't, but you can't just dibble-dabble with the bibble-babble." – Aunt Polly

El destino no es cuestión de azar; es cuestión de elección. No es algo que hay que esperar; es algo que hay que conseguir. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Is everything we do determined by the cause-and-effect chain of genes, environment, and the cells that make up our brain, or can we freely form intentions that influence our actions in the world?

Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward.

On the other hand, if you take action just for the sake of doing it, without expecting a reward, you will find that you enjoy every action you do.

Because the word is the magic that humans possess and misuse of the word is black magic, we are using black magic all the time without knowing that our word is magic at all.

The waking dream can be mastered. Just as we can alter the course of our nighttime dreaming we can remind ourselves before falling asleep to wake up in the middle of a recurring nightmare. We can leave clues to pinch ourselves or to challenge threatening characters in a sleeping dream. Same is true of our waking life. It's simple enough to remind ourselves that we're dreaming all the time, even as we go through an ordinary day.