#intention

The act of speaking our intentions aloud shifts them from wishful thinking into action. ↗

— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

#balance #intention #thinking #business

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen. ↗

— Robert K. Greenleaf

#intentions #listening #skill #communication

You’re the director of your life, so you deserve to play the lead. ↗

— Sandra Saenz

#direct #direction #director #intention #lead

Having good intentions isn’t enough when actions fail; you also need some bad intentions so that you look competent. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #intentions #funny

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#life

It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action. ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#intention #kindness #logic #love #philosophy

But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended. ↗

— John Green

#fiction #imagination #intentional-fallcy #ontology #art

Through our intentions, a place no power can influence, we have the power to oppose. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#intentions #motives #oppose #motivational

Life is short only if you are not living your purpose. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#determination #intentions #life #living #purpose

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. ↗

— Xun Zi

#caused #evil #goodness #human #human nature