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Quotes About Intention

Things don't just happen. They are made to happen.
~ John F. Kennedy
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
~ John F. Kennedy
The second cause of failure to enact good stems from conflict of intention. High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis.
~ John Fowles
Creating a Soul Mate relationship is not something that happens automatically; it is earned through our inner commitment to be true to ourselves and find a higher love, a willful intention to let go of past mistakes with forgiveness, the wisdom to correct what doesn't work in our own actions, the understanding and compassion to unconditionally accept our partner's limitations, and finally the courage to open our hearts again and again.
~ John Gray
The treaty of Greenwich was a dead letter from the start. Mary of Guise had no intention of honoring it;
~ John Guy
Doing is at a far greater distance from intending to do than you at first sight imagine. Join
~ John Henry Newman
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~ John Irving
Luck is the residue of design.
~ John Milton
Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.
~ William James
I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is for; it's not cerebral, it's emotional.
~ Simon Pegg
Nature does not pile up 1000 hogs, then hope for the best.
~ Joan Dye Gussow
Excellence is never an accident.
~ Jerold Panas
The simple intention to surrender control is all you need to experience miracles.
~ Gabrielle Bernstein
To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.
~ Ernest Holmes
Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.
~ Alexander Shulgin
There are no coincidences. Every event we experience and every person we meet has intentionally been put in our path to help raise our level of consciousness .
~ Cheryl Richardson
An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.
~ Robert Longo
The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.
~ Tom Barrett
You have the ability to choose what you want to experience.
~ Rhonda Byrne
Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.
~ Jonas Salk
What you focus on with your thought and feeling is what you attract into your experience.
~ Rhonda Byrne
In order to experience real magic it is necessary to make a dramatic shift from outcome to purpose.
~ Wayne Dyer
One of the cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience.
~ Richard Bach