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Quotes About Intention

If you are feeling angry, think very carefully about what new position you want to take before doing anything. By its very nature anger propels us into quick action, so guard against this. You will only fall on your face if you attempt to take a new position that you are not yet ready to take or that you have only casually thought through. Alice was furious with an
~ Harriet Lerner
Write a mission statement, but keep it private.
~ Harry Beckwith
Managers who aspire to be ethical must challenge the assumption that they're always unbiased and acknowledge that vigilance, even more than good intention, is a defining characteristic of an ethical manager.
~ Harvard Business Review
Intend to be Love And know death for what it is: The inbreath of God.
~ Haven Trevino
The object attained by both good and bad methods is the same, but the way one tries to attain it turns the object into right or wrong. It is not the object which is wrong, it is the way one adopts to attain it.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Consciously or unconsciously we call to us that element which makes us what we are. What we experience in life, therefore, has either come from what we have already called to us in the past, or from what we call at the present moment. It
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
I've no intention of harming you—or touching you, Mrs. Michaelson. But if the countryside is that packed with Yanks, then I will accept your gracious hospitality for the night. And since I dare not come near you, I'm going to go and lock myself in a room. And since I don't want to lie awake all night wondering just where you are and what you're doing, I'm taking the whiskey bottle. What a companion it will make!
~ Heather Graham
That means anyone can serve the Earth, humankind and all life by spending time (every day, once a week, once a month), alone or in groups, concentrating their prodigious energies to help others. This can be accomplished through chanting, meditating, drumming, visualizing or whatever serves best. And while doing good deeds (volunteering, being active for affirmative change) is important, purposefully manifesting through positive, concentrated intention is vital to this transition.
~ Laurie Johnson
Most of us walk through our daily lives as if we were asleep. We regard not what is before our eyes. We see not how we construct fantasies of our own and others' intentions without having the smallest knowledge of what we, or they, are truly about. We are all imaginists, storytellers if you will, and the pity is that none of us recognizes his sorry state.
~ Laurie Viera Rigler
I get mad when you walk away (don't walk away from me cmon now), so I tell you leave when I mean stay
~ Lauryn Hill
Making the journal equal to the journey is simply a matter of shifting your intention: you're no longer traveling and keeping a log on the side, but embarking with a dual purpose.
~ Lavinia Spalding
God created strategy by allowing choice,
~ Lawrence Freedman
the schist pyramids can leave us contrite. Greatness is in the intention; and not in dimensions.
~ Le Corbusier
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.
~ le guin ursula k iv
nothing is left to chance; everything must be deeply considered.
~ Leander Kahney
It was never a case of just going through the motions.
~ Leander Kahney
A vice is a failure of desire.
~ lee gerald stanley
You can only have one thought at a time- make it a good one.
~ Lee Roberson
There is nothing without reason.
~ leibniz gottfried wilhelm
I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else.
~ Lemony Snicket
Mr. Poe meant well, but a jar of mustard probably also means well and would do a better job of keeping the Baudelaires out of danger.
~ Lemony Snicket
I do what I do, in order to do something else.
~ Lemony Snicket
idea. Mr. Poe meant well, but a jar of mustard probably also means well and would do a better job of keeping the Baudelaires out of danger. Violet
~ Lemony Snicket
Anyone can write one book; for instance even politicians do it! Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer
~ Len Deighton