Quotes About Intentionality

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.

Jesus did not have the time nor the desire to scatter himself on those who wanted to make their own terms of discipleship.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

The guiding self shows intentionality and intelligence; but it is as if the intentionality and intelligence is a phenomenon that only appears when an observing ego notices a kind of behind-the-scenes design to the multiplicity of affects, dreams, visions, and patterns of behaviors. Thus, the intentionality of the guiding self may be likened to a consciousness in potential because it depends upon being perceived by an observing center of existing consciousness—the ego.

This makes it sound as if light has intentionality, and I resisted the temptation to say light considers all paths and chooses the one that takes the least time because I fully expect that Deepak Chopra would later quote me as implying that light has consciousness.

Too often in our lives, accomplishment and doing overshadow growth and becoming. We frantically scurry around, trying to paint the picture with our activities, but our being must be settled before our doing. George MacDonald said it well: "He thought to gain a thing by a doing, when the very thing desired was a being."8

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

I'm all for lifestyle evangelism, but I'm also in favor of intentionality, where we seek out opportunities for spiritual conversations and are equipped to explain the gospel and why we believe it.

To be like Jesus, we must see the use of our time as a Spiritual Discipline. Having

So while we cannot be godly without the practice of the Disciplines, we can practice the Disciplines without being godly if we see them as ends and not means.

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

The only way to do this successfully is to have a well-thought-out set of standards drawn up for each type of work that you do, and in advance. If you wait till anyone item is finished you may find yourself reasoning after the fact, defending the fact-accomplished, and perhaps blinding yourself to real insufficiencies in it.

So many people are so busy being busy that they don't spend time on the foundation of their life.

Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.

Life is already too short to waste on speed.

If you go through life being casual, you will end up a casualty

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

I try to differentiate between what I need and don't need. I talk to my wife and children before buying things.

This linguistic work, however, is not all that they do. They also function in intentionality: the syntax of language is related to the way things can present themselves to us, to the way we can intend and articulate them.

Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

How do you slow down in a world that is speeding up?

Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.

All forms of perception, according to Husserl, presuppose an intentional structure of consciousness, and it is in this intentional structure that the primordial link between consciousness and the world is to be sought.

To help you focus, to help you really understand what you're doing, you have to say no a lot. When you say yes to everything, you get distracted. When you say no, you have to get the one thing you're doing really right.