Quotes About Intentionality

Wanting to win isn't enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself; not what's leftover after you have given your best to everyone else.

Quality is never an accident.

Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

Good things happen when you narrow your focus.

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet.

It's not the sort of thing romantics wish to hear, but I found that in the end, love must be a kind of discipline. If we love only with our feelings, we're sunk—we may feel love one day and something quite other the next. Soon after he came to live with me—he was eleven years old at the time—I realized I must learn to love with my will, not my feelings.

Fuck that. People should be missing out! Most people should miss out on most things most of the time. That's what we try to encourage at Basecamp. JOMO! The joy of missing out.

No excuses. No negativity. No psychic pollution. Keep your inner space clear.

Our goal is to love people more than need them. We are overflowing pitchers, not leaky cups.

That's my faith, that's the most important thing in my life - believing that I have a purpose here, that I was placed with an intentionality of exactly where I am supposed to be.

I need to create an environment where I can be my best self, and that means being unapologetic about saying no to things that don't serve me or move me closer to my purpose and the things that I care about the most.

When we lead small we simply make a choice to invest strategically in the lives of a few over time so we can help them build an authentic faith.

But a deep walk with God does not come effortlessly. If it did, many more people would have one. First, you must decide you're unwilling to remain where you are. Second, you must be prepared to pay a price. Will you rise earlier so you can spend unhurried tome with Him? Will you forgo comforts and pleasures so you can focus on your walk with Him?

Why do we do inefficient things? Because sometimes we don't want life to be seamless—we want to feel resistance, we want to take our time, we want to savor the experience. When what you're doing isn't just a means to an end, you're in no hurry to get it done.

Busyness is a great enemy of relationships.

Half of your mastery of power comes from what you do NOT do, what you do not ALLOW yourself to get dragged into.

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

If you want to have the kind of relationship that your heart yearns for, you have to create it. You can't depend on somebody else creating it for you.

When your brain is always engaged, when your neurons are always firing, when you find yourself in a continual mode of reacting and responding, instead of steering and directing, the best and brightest solutions that you are capable of producing rarely see the light of day.

Jim practiced what he preached when he wrote in his diary: 'Wherever you are, be all here. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.