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Quotes About Intention

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I don't envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y'know? I've designed it that way.
~ Townes Van Zandt
The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.
~ Satish Kumar
I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.
~ Ellsworth Kelly
Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve
~ Grenville Kleiser
If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?
~ Laurence J. Peter
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
There are no scores for good intention, it either happened or it didn't. Get to work.
~ Maria Kang
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
~ Marcus Aurelius
It's important to have a plan, a big picture. You can deviate from it or change it completely, but it gives you something to work for.
~ Shannon Miller
The law of attraction is always working whether you believe it or understand it or not.
~ Bob Proctor
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
~ Thomas A. Edison
..... your real work is to decide what you want and then to focus upon it. For it is through focusing upon what you want that you will attract it. That is the process of creating
~ Esther Hicks
In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.
~ James Meade
Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment. And when we introduce an intention in our pure potentiality, we put this infinite organizing power to work for us.
~ Deepak Chopra
Your spirit lives on in your work. YOU decide what manner of work that will be.
~ Iimani David
It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?
~ Leo Tolstoy
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
~ Tim Ferriss
We've all been there, onstage. You say something you don't mean, you make fun of something on accident but... This wasn't that. This wasn't crowd work. This was a rehearsed set. This was pointed.
~ Iliza Shlesinger
A procrastinators willpower lies in the fact that he keeps work pending because he strongly feels he wants to do the same – keep it pending.
~ Amit Abraham
A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.
~ Steven Pressfield
By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.
~ Carl Honore
To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.
~ Christina Baldwin
We don't have to struggle or force situations to go our way. Instead, we can intend for everything to work out as it should, take action, and then allow opportunities to spontaneously emerge.
~ Deepak Chopra