Quotes About Intentional

Don't make anybody a homemade gift. Unless you're really good, or it's going to be really practical. If it's a little thing you think is cute 'cause you made it, just forget it.

I'm trying to practice owning less stuff.

I don't ever make moves under pressure.

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

I'm pretty good with being calculated in what I do, when I'm going to make my mark on somebody.

As far as dating is concerned, I'm not a casual dating person.

Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

Ricky Gervais has jokes about people with disabilities, but do I think that's a healthy thing? Yes, I really do, because he's chosen his targets very carefully, and he's thought about what he's doing.

Be food aware—remember that fresh meat, fish, fowl, vegetables, nuts, seeds and occasional fruits and starches are the foods nature intended you to eat.

The killing of Steven Tuomi may have been unintentional, but it whetted Dahmer's appetite for murder.

Since whites in general were not held responsible for harm to blacks, it followed that only those whites who were found liable for intentional discrimination should be penalized. As I suggested earlier, the Brown decision substituted one mantra for another: where "separate" was once equal, "separate" would be now categorically unequal.

Sometimes too much tolerance can kill you. If you are tolerant of people poisoning themselves to death they will drag you down. They will ruin your life by being intentional obstacles to your dreams.

And there's an argument to be made that if intentional and thoughtful parenthood is an indicator of parental and family happiness, then having gay parents—parents who weren't able to "accidentally" have a child—may be, in fact, among the better circumstances there are for a child.

But you don't even know how to destroy things wisely,' Zoltan griped, ordering yet another attempt to pull a wheel out of a hole. 'Why can't you remove the stones gradually, from the edges of the road? You're like children! Instead of eating a doughnut systematically, you gouge the jam out with a finger and then throw away the rest because it's not sweet any more.

Stewardship means to consciously take up our cultural power, investing it intentionally among the seemingly powerless, putting our power at their disposal to enable them to cultivate and create.

I'm a writer, Inspector. I choose my words carefully.

If you met him you'd think the inspector was kind of slow. It was his way of thinking before he spoke so you knew that when the words came out they were just the ones he'd intended.

My privacy is very intentional.

I'm not a dirty player.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

seems so thoroughly thought through, so comprehensively intentional. Certainly,

Most people have liberty. They can go where they want and do the things they feel like doing. But too many people are also slaves to their impulses. They have grown reactive rather than proactive, meaning that they are like seafoam pounding against a rocky shore, going in whatever direction the tide might take them.

Intentional leadership ads value and truth to people.

Pick the things you do in this day wisely.