Quotes About Intentional

Generational transmission of bias can be disrupted. We can stop passing hateful, destructive, and false beliefs to the next generation, but to do so we must be exceedingly intentional about all of the ways we influence our babies, toddlers, and young children. We have to think about the images they see in the magazines we read, the people we welcome into our homes, the ways we treat others who look different from us.

Curran never did anything without a reason he was so controlled, even his one-night stands were premeditated.

You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.

The media's intentional corruption of the truth is an abomination and NRA members will never - and I mean never - submit or surrender to the national media!

Be intentional about your life and what you want to accomplish, but understand there's no choice you make that you can't change.

You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

When my career started on daytime soaps, those characters usually didn't have much depth to them. The main goal was to memorize my lines in order to film efficiently the next day. But with 'Jane The Virgin,' the writing is strong, and everything is intentional.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

It's essential that the media is sober and intentional in everything they do, and that's something we should all keep top of mind.

Everything in our society is so purposeful.

In Iraq and Afghanistan, our soldiers signed up intentionally. That's a huge difference from the largely conscripted army of my era.

Falling in love with someone is intentional, even if it was their looks that tripped you.

I'm a very careful man. Everything I do… Remember this… Everything I do means something to me.

Forgiveness is the intentional act or process of pardoning or offering absolution unto another.

Some people make think slowly, but they're very thorough about it.

intentional policy drift assumes knowledge of policy failure and implies that "policy makers fail to update policies due to pressure from intense minority interests or political actors exploiting veto points in the political process

Coaching is an ongoing intentional conversation that empowers a person or group to fully live out God's calling.

Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.

Digital minimalists see new technologies as tools to be used to support things they deeply value—not as sources of value themselves. They don't accept the idea that offering some small benefit is justification for allowing an attention-gobbling service into their lives, and are instead interested in applying new technology in highly selective and intentional ways that yield big wins. Just as important: they're comfortable missing out on everything else.

minimalists don't mind missing out on small things; what worries them much more is diminishing the large things they already know for sure make a good life good.

In Part 1, I quoted writer Winifred Gallagher saying, "I'll live the focused life, because it's the best kind there is." I agree. So does Bill Gates. And hopefully now that you've finished this book, you agree too.

recognize a truth embraced by the most productive and important personalities of generations past: A deep life is a good life.

philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.

The second reason is that the subversive decision to pursue FI at a young age, which typically leads to radical lifestyle decisions, self-selects for individuals who are unusually intentional about how they live their lives.