Quotes About Intention

he'd pack up the rest of his clothes, his workout gear. He'd get serious about

she'd let him know just what that was

The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.

If you don't know what you want, the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't.

Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.

My parents meant well, but the road to Hell is paved with publicity stunts.

EÄŸer ne istediÄŸini bilmezsen diyor kap?c?, bir bakars?n istemediÄŸin bir sürü ÅŸeyin olmuÅŸ.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.

Now, pull the knife toward you—never push it. You want to hold your blade the way an artist holds and controls a paintbrush. You have to anticipate a sudden flinch, jerk or quiver so that any cut is intentional, never accidental. Your sub is your precious canvas, and you want to be creative while always maintaining full control." Mark

Doing or not doing something - they are similar. Both involve an action and sincerity.

Don't worry, my pearl. I'll be careful, not to ruin your face when I kill you!

With every moment of your time, every decision about how you spend your energy and your money, you are making a statement about what really matters to you.

These three parts—likeness, commitment, and metrics—comprise a company's purpose. Companies that aspire to positive impact must never leave their purpose to chance. Worthy purposes rarely emerge inadvertently; the world is too full of mirage, paradox, and uncertainty to leave this to fate. Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.

As you're living your life from day to day, how do you make sure you're heading in the right direction? Watch where your resources flow. If they're not supporting the strategy you've decided upon, then you're not implementing that strategy at all.

how you allocate your own resources can make your life turn out to be exactly as you hope or very different from what you intend.

likeness, a commitment, and a metric—is the most reliable way I know of to define for yourself what your purpose is, and to live it in your life every day.

Allocation Resources Among Your "Businesses" In the words of Andy Grove: "To understand a company's strategy, look at what they actually do rather than what they say they will do.

The things I will invent will be, I suspect, mundane by comparison with the truth. And as I said, it's my intention that you should not know the difference. I plan to interweave the elements of my story so cunningly that you'll cease to even care whether an event happened out there in the same world where you walk, or in here, in the head of a crippled man who will never again move from his stepmother's house.

In time the saplings and hedges on the perimeter would provide shade and character; now they spoke of fine intentions.

Johnny Dandy starring Blake Headley and Patricia De Hammond had been running on Broadway at the Divinity Theater since Memorial Day weekend. Critics had meted their blows and yet. The dialogue and action were so shrouded in euphemism, so opaque in meaning and intention, alternately dull and

Forgive me for saying so, Your Highness, Clarissa said slowly, but for one as unaccustomed to good deeds as you, perhaps it would be best if you started with one on a smaller scale. Something like, I don't know, spreading bread crumbs for birds? Birds? Valentina stared at Clarissa as if she had sprouted wings and would fly off. Why on earth would I wish to feed birds? It was just a thought, Clarissa murmured.

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.

Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.