Quotes About Intention

Seuls les actes décident de ce qu'on a voulu.

When the challenging behaviors continue despite consistently enforcing rules, it does not matter anymore whether the behavior was intentional. We need to understand how to alter the triggers to those behaviors and/or teach better ways to cope with those triggers.

Debs stood in the rain and watched him go, which I am sure she intended to make Wilkins nervous enough to leap from the car and confess, but considering the weather it struck me as excessive zeal. I got into the car and waited for her.

Never kill an animal but for three reasons: for food or hide, for defense, for mercy.

What are you getting at?

It is pointless to sit and ruminate about how dreadful your life is going to be if you act on a fearsome, violent, obsessive thought. You are not going to do it. Why not? Because the real you doesn't want to do it.

The essential achievement of the will is to attend to one object and hold it clear and strong before the mind, letting all others-its rivals for attention and subsequent action-fade away like starlight swamped by the radiance of the Sun.

Intention governs attention, and attention exerts real, physical effects on the dynamics of the brain.

We aren't happy by accident. This is a conscious choice, one that takes daily action.

Books provide a handy shorthand when Rory's mostly MIA father, Christopher, is first introduced to viewers. Christopher's offer to buy Rory the Compact Oxford English Dictionary she covets is sincere; his lack of ability to follow through on his good intentions is Christopher in a nutshell.

and if you're lucky you have sisters or friends who remind you when you forget your best intentions. You come back to yourself, again and again.

i chose not to run

If you believe it, it happens. If you don't, it doesn't. When you believe him, you put your own power in his hands.

And while his mother's lecture had gone over his seven-year-old head, Pasquale saw now what she meant--how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned.

how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned.

If every event is part of the fabric of the conspiracy, then everything must have a reason, a meaning.

She had mailed them a few days before she died, wishing everyone a great future. It was a powerful lesson in creating a legacy by choosing your words with intention. We are on this earth such a short time, cruelly short in Sarah's case. What message did I want to leave behind?

She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.

The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.

I didn't want it to have any technical virtuosity; I wanted it to just be really clear how it was made. For my work in general, it's always really clear how it is made.

A true brave man is the one who dares to work against personal-interest.

Your words are so powerful and precious. Learn to harness them, guide them and let them work for you.

The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.

Most of us don't work out what we want. And most of us end up with lopsided lives as a result.