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Quotes About Intention

I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.
~ Sandra Bullock
God made YOU. Then he made ME. Then he whispered 'meant to be.'
~ Unknown
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
~ Buddha
A true brave man is the one who dares to work against seft-interest.
~ Unknown
Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?
~ Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell.
~ Unknown
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.
~ Thomas Chalmers
Few people think about this or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.
~ Bill Moggridge
You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.
~ I.M. Pei
Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order
~ Victor Papanek
No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
~ William Morris
Everything is design. Everything!
~ Paul Rand
We're very genuinely designing the best products that we can for people.
~ Jonathan Ive
Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.
~ T. S. Eliot
No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes.
~ Bruce Mau
I like to talk about the idea of "design without design," where... we're creating the conditions for the things that we want to see happen rather than trying to force a particular set of outcomes.
~ Toby Hemenway
Lofty designs must close in like effects.
~ Robert Browning
The ill design is most ill for the designer.
~ Hesiod
It's one of the curses of designing that when you look at anything, you're constantly thinking, Why? Why - why was it designed like that, and not like this?
~ Jonathan Ive
I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design.
~ Linda Dillow
Through default or intention, unaware or by design, we not only choose but create the visible outer conditions that are most resonant to our inner state of being.
~ Richard Bach
It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Praying, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be, rather than begging God for that which you desire.
~ Neville Goddard
All you can possibly need or desire is already yours.Call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled.
~ Neville Goddard