Quotes About Intention

Design is the first signal of human intention. When we look at plastics in our environment, if it's our intention to do these things then we must question our intentions. If it's not our intention, then what's our plan? The question becomes how we can behave in a way that works.

They looked as if they were trying to threaten their own destination into appearing.

If a violent act is violent only in virtue of some antecedent violent intention, it is equally true that an intention to do violence is revealed only when someone acts violently.

you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes.

Now, why is it that the idea of intention keeps turning up in explanations of adaptation, intruding even into ones where it is supposed to have no place? And why is it as hard, as we saw in the preceding section that it is, to translate the idea of intention out of the explanation of any particular adaptation? "Surely

Who we are is who we choose to be in this very moment.

If expecting something in return is your reason for giving, you are really not giving- you're swapping. If you receive something in return for your gift, what you receive is a bonus - not a repayment of a debt.

remember, when you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.

Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.

Why do we classify all the mental things together as the mental at all? I think action is mental because it's intentional, in the sense that it's directed on to something other than itself. So when you act, when you go to buy yourself a coffee, you're aiming at something beyond yourself, namely the result of getting a coffee.

Pilgrimage always involves both an exterior and interior journey. Any travel can be a pilgrimage, regardless of the destination or whether or not there even is a destination. The difference between a pilgrim and a tourist is the intention of attention and openness to God. This transforms a trip into a pilgrimage, and the result is that the self that sets out on pilgrimage will not be the same as the self that returns.

Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

It is not always the event itself that is wrong, but the hidden agenda behind it.

Let us go one step further and say that other people's consciousnesses can affect your body too. We see that in prayer. Prayer is an expression of consciousness. It is a type of energy. This leads us to a corollary thought that spiritual energy and consciousness are close, and your spirit interacts with consciousness. When you project your consciousness to others, you are actually sending them energy on a subatomic level.

point your nose—rather than just swivel your eyes—in the direction that you want to go. For whatever physical or psychological reasons, the act of turning your head helps aim the motorcycle in that direction.

Just make sure if you fail, you did what you wanted to do.

i will admit there's a certain degree of giving a fuck that goes into not giving a fuck. by saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your terms.

Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole.

don't be a backseat driver. Instead, quietly recite mantras of protection. For example: "You're going to get us all killed.

Holiness is not merely a feeling, state of mind, or good intention. It involves practical separation from sin and real separation unto God.

God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.

I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens declare the glory of God.'

When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.