Quotes About Intention

The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example.

Prayer is not trying to convince God to do something for us. Prayer is agreeing and working with God to shift

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

A Modern Prayer Dear God, help me to slow down notrushpasteverythingthatisimportanttodayamen. Robert Holden

The first hour in the morning is the rudder of the day. —Henry Ward Beecher

When a Type Number Two performs chip-replacement surgery on your wallet, all he's saying to you is: I meant from the outset to cut off your fingers when you reached for your chips, even though I assured you that was not my intention.

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

Or imagine him in the middle of a battle coming upon a soldier cowering behind a tree and loudly proclaiming his intention to desert—prompting Sherman to shower the tree with rocks, convincing the reluctant warrior he was under even heavier fire.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much:—surely that may be his epitaph of which he need not be ashamed.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

It is also a near-perfect summary of what happens in the void of war and how history is more often than not a messy combination of intention, courage, preparation, and chance. If

If the scene is about what the scene is about, you're in deep shit.

The PROTAGONIST has a conscious desire.

The pull of an immoral world outside our homes is as strong as the force that sucks the soft, white stuff into the form. Neutrality on our part as parents will result in failure. Without our intentional effort to defy it, our kids will have no chance but to be thoroughly drawn into those things that we fear most.

She was a romantic, and as I had never met a female romantic before it was a delight to me to explore her emotions. She wanted to know all about me, and I told her as honestly as I could; but as I was barely twenty, and a romantic myself, I know now that I lied in every word I uttered—lied not in fact but in emphasis, in colour, and in intention.

Striving and surrender are not compatible. If you are overeager to achieve something, notice the force of your intention. Watch your faster breathing and feel your tenser muscles. This clear observing, this quality of attention, can take you to a state of relaxed awareness.

Success cannot be pursued; success ensues. It flows as the unintended byproduct of efforts concentrated in the direction of a worthy cause.

The things that get committed to paper are the things that are committed to in life. And the things that get scheduled are the things that get done.

things are always created twice: first in the workshop of the mind and then, and only then, in reality. I call the process 'blueprinting' because anything that you create in your outer world began as a simple blueprint in your inner world

The smallest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions.

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