Quotes About Intention

At the 1997 MacWorld Developers Conference, he explained, "When you think about focusing, you think, 'Well, focusing is saying yes.' No! Focusing is about saying no." Jobs

Thinking informs actions and actions determine outcomes.

the secret to extraordinary results is to ask a very big and specific question that leads you to one very small and tightly focused answer.

We lose our willpower not because we think about it but because we don't. Without appreciating that it can come and go, we let it do exactly that. Without intentionally protecting it every day, we allow ourselves to go from a will and a way to no will and no way.

A balanced life is a lie.

Going small" is ignoring all the things you could do and doing what you should do. It's recognizing that not all things matter equally and finding the things that matter most. It's a tighter way to connect what you do with what you want. It's realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

Our motivation and our thoughts about our actions become as important as the actions themselves.

Yes, they think that. They regard the intention of loyalty to a partnership for mutual help, for the preservation of chastity, and for the transmission of life, as something lower than a storm of emotion.8

Infatuation fills your eyes with what you're getting, but let the Bible fill your mind with what you're committing to give.

Don't look where you don't want to go.

Political correctness, no matter how well intentioned, is still an attack on freedom of speech.

You made it all up, and you got what you wanted for a reason.

Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect.

As you acquire a sense of reverence, you develop a capacity to think more deeply about the value of Life before you commit your energy to action.

The illusion for each soul is created by its intentions.

When you choose your thoughts, your words, and your actions, choose wisely and compassionately. You are part of one Family, one Mind, one Heart, one Life, one Universe. Give all that you can to it, and you will receive more in return than you can imagine.

If you look upon each recurrence of attraction as a setback, or as an indication that your intention is not working, you choose the path of learning through fear and doubt. If you look upon each recurrence as an opportunity that is offered to you, in response to your intention, to release your inadequacy and to acquire power over it, you choose the path of learning through wisdom, for that is what it is.

If you want to have the kind of relationship that your heart yearns for, you have to create it. You can't depend on somebody else creating it for you.

A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.

You have to remember to make it all over again every day, the angel said to me. Otherwise it all goes to hell.

Honor your mistake as a hidden intention.

What could he be thinking of? He seemed to be trying to remember something, perhaps an engagement, perhaps an excuse to leave her. For eventually, they all made some excuse.

I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.