Quotes About Intentions

Since his earliest remembrances, Morveer seemed always to have had an uncanny aptitude for saying the wrong thing. When he meant to contribute, he would find he was complaining. When he intended to be solicitous, he would discover he was insulting. When he sought earnestly to provide support, he would be construed as undermining. He wanted only to be valued, respected, included, and yet somehow every attempt at good fellowship only made matters worse.

Where we place our attention and on what we place our attention ... maps the very course of our state of being.

El experimento del HeartMath demuestra que el campo cuántico no responde simplemente a nuestros deseos: nuestras peticiones emocionales. Ni tampoco a nuestras intenciones: nuestros pensamientos. Sólo nos responde cuando estos dos factores son afines o coherentes, es decir, cuando emiten la misma señal.

Then you consciously marry your thoughts and intentions with a heightened state of emotion, such as joy or gratitude. (More on heightened states of emotion is coming up.) Once you can embrace that new emotion and you get more excited, you're bathing your body in the neurochemistry that would be present if that future event were actually happening. It could be suggested that you're giving your body a taste of the future experience.

She wasn't sure good intentions always paved the road to hell, but they for sure weren't the highest standard of medical care. She

If Harry had been less noble, less fair-minded, Cedric would have lived. It is a very classic example of how noble intentions often lead to tragic results." He straightened, squared off with the hunter. "I have no desire to be Harry Potter.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish—not sit intending on a chair.

Check out your own emotions and intentions before offering, giving, or receiving help.

When our true intentions are something other than providing help, such as getting a job done or beating someone in a game, we are most prone to falling into the traps described throughout this book.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

You...you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?" What? Oh...yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. How do you like that for a declension, young man?

Having essential goals in mind makes daily decisions clearer.

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold — but so does a hard-boiled egg.

People judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so has a hard-boiled egg.

Why do men chase women they have no intention of marrying? The same urge that makes dogs chase cars they have no intention of driving.

She was a mild, inoffensive, well-meaning creature, with a face not unlike that of an amiable horse, and she spent most of her life striving so hard to do the right thing and invariably doing the wrong one.

He was pleased to receive his colleague's ships, but had no serious intention of finding him his legions.

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.

One doesn't need telepathy to read your intentions.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. Show me someone who says, "Something must be done!" and I will show you a head full of vicious intentions that have no other outlet.