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Quotes About Intentional

Would not intentional restrictions on the progress of life-saving science, simply to allow ethics to "catch up," be themselves unethical?
~ Francis S. Collins
It's always hard to analyze the effect of your nationality and your surroundings or anything like that. I think in some ways we failed to become the textbook British band, but we kind of turned into something else - and it wasn't even intentional.
~ Ron Mael
I do the right thing on purpose. I don't do it by accident.
~ Herm Edwards
I think each book sort of finds its own theme as it goes on. 'Warded Man' was fear. 'Desert Spear' was exploration of the other. 'Daylight War' was relationships. Some of this is intentional, and some of it evolves naturally. The series as a whole is obviously something I have given a lot of thought to, but each book is its own animal as well.
~ Peter V. Brett
Change is automatic, but Growth is intentional.
~ Izey Victoria Odiase
Developers who don't actively think about their code are programming by coincidence—the code might work, but there's no particular reason why.
~ Andrew Hunt
There are no martyrs only volunteers.
~ Ann Lloyd
To say that someone freely chose to squander his life's savings at the poker tabile is to say that he had every opportunity to do otherwise and that nothing about what he did was inadvertent
~ Sam Harris
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.
~ Samuel Johnson
He spoke so slowly, cobwebs could have formed between his words.
~ Scott Heim
In this era, you must deliberately preserve and cultivate your most valuable connections to people, activities, and whatever else is most important to you. Anyone can cultivate these connections, drawing from them the strength and will a person needs to handle the best and worst of life, but only if you plan to do so and insist on adhering to your plan .
~ Edward M. Hallowell
The conclusion we drew from this convinced us that it was best to do everything on purpose, deliberately, so that you would know what to expect.
~ Elena Ferrante
An unfortunate thing in a private organisation is that a person is not punished so much for committing mistakes intentionally as much for correcting own errors that was done inadvertently.
~ Anuj Somany
The real life villains are only those people who support the wrongful person intentionally for own selfish gains.
~ Anuj Somany
Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It's been far more deliberate than that.
~ William Stone
I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean.
~ Bode Miller
Good design is probably something that has been thoroughly thought through to a point of resolution.
~ David Linley
Let nothing be done rashly, and at random, but all things according to the most exact and perfect rules of art.
~ Marcus Aurelius
No random actions, none not based on underlying principles.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Being born again is the work of the Spirit. Whether it happens suddenly or gradually, we can't make it happen, either by strong desire and determination or by learning and believing the right beliefs. But we can be intentional about being born again. Though we can't make it happen, we can midwife the process.
~ Marcus J. Borg
God had been intentional in each gathering. He used these encounters to uncover a deep need and satiate a deep hunger.
~ Margaret Feinberg
This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.
~ Christiana Figueres
We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time.
~ C. J. Mahaney
We do not have time to waste our lives coasting out casual, comfortable Christianity.
~ David Platt