Quotes About Intention

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful

The point of creating futures is to get people to imagine what they want and don't want to happen down the road – and maybe do something about it.

Du siehst einfach nur nicht richtig, wohin du gehst. Du lässt dich ablenken, und dann stolperst du ueber jedes noch so kleine Hindernis. Du bist weltfremd... So einfach ist das oder so komplexiert. Wie man es nimmt... Konzentriere dich beim Gehen darauf, was du tust.

but I would not lie ready to his hand. A tool can be used, a man must be asked.

For as much as you can, build the past and the future that you can carry yourself.

The pulse of intention does not move so that one Can see it, and moral machinery is not labelled, but The future of time is determined by the power of volition.

Ante cualquier decisión de cierta importancia que tengamos que tomar, hemos de preguntarnos: ¿es coherente con el estilo de vida evangélico que deseo encarnar?; esta elección, ¿me acerca o me aleja de mi fin último? Porque lo decisivo es llegar a la meta, no experimentar todas las posibilidades que se le presentan a cualquier persona.

At no point did I form the conscious intention of founding an ad hoc university in my sitting room. It happened, as it were, by accident.

Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it. Mae West

No matter what you want to figure out, one thing is for sure: writing it down is a fundamental step to making it real.

Is the goal I've set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?

A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

Over time, we commit acts with intentions, either good or bad, that require forgiveness.

Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it. The one without the other is meaningless.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

No friendship is an accident.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Waking up to the power of the free mind is the same as waking up to all that you are intended to be.

You decide everyday who you will and will not be. Be bold in your decision but remember, choose wisely.

Your emotions should not be driven by the situation, but you are supposed to create that situation by using your emotions.

Never hesitate to do things that are good, but never mistake that good things are solely to your own purposes.