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The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.
Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?
Nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.
Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.
I didn't intend. The word "intend" is the wrong word for what I do. It's just that it's something you do, and you can't not do. If you want to do it, and you don't intend to, you do it anyway. The word "intend" is wrong. The word "pressure" is right. It's like any art form.
My work became an exploration of non-intention.
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.
I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.
Everything is an accident.
intentional: if you meddle in our affairs, we'll
Human action is purposeful behavior.
Intentions were powerful things.
The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis.
The truth is, words are never accidental.
There is always a gap between intention and action..
Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that,
where intention is sound, action is sound,
and where it is corrupt, then action is corrupt
To be 'on purpose' means you're doing what you love to do, doing what you're good at, and accomplishing what's important to you.
Those who consider the inessential to be essential
And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential,
Living in the field of wrong intention
The power of intention manifests as an expression of expanding creativity, kindness, love, and beauty.
Intention is critical. It gets everything in motion.
Intention, Attention, No Tension.
It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.
Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.
It's our intention. Our intention is everything. Nothing happens on this planet without it. Not one single thing has ever been accomplished without intention.
Intention, good or bad, is not enough.
This was unintentional."
It became something more without noticing. Without realizing. "Am I a mistake - "
"No, myshka. You're just the unexpected, beautiful thing in my life.
[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect
Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention.
Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.
The gap between intentions and actions is character.
Given the right experimental manipulations, people can be led to believe that they consciously intended an action when they neither chose it nor had control over their movements.
Comes up with. This is the flavor of true intentionality and inner discipline. You do it simply
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
Things happen to people by accident.
I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.
You mean if a good hunter did this it was on purpose?
It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.
Intentionality fuels the master's journey. Every master is a master of vision.
That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.
Many of you are gripped by the loony idea that your intentions are different from the results you create. It simplifies life enormously the moment you accept that the results you create are your unconscious intentions made visibly manifest.
There is no art when one does something without intention.
These aren't accidents. They are significant choices, like the choice of a totemic animal: something in your spirit aligns with theirs.
Every thought, emotion, and action is a statement about who we are, and who we are becoming. Why not make this statement 'On Purpose'?
Success is never an accident it's always on purpose.
There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.
Words don't get accident; hands and tongues drive them wrongly!
A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.
Intentions are the triggers for transformation in the body. If you want to wiggle your toes, you do it through intention.
You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.
If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?
Can something be "almost" an accident?' Pattern asked, genuinely curious.
Scripture repeatedly recounts the intentional actions of the providential God. The
The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the mark I'm trying to hit, however I don't feel I have much control over it.
Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.
The intention makes the crime.
We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.
You're either living on purpose or performance.
That which is produced with intention has passed over from non-existence to existence.
Nothing with God can be accidental.
Ignorance clarifies. It selects and omits with placid perfection.
An intention is a quality of consciousness
that you bring to an action.
No, it wasn't an accident, I didn't say that. It was carefully planned, down to the tiniest mechanical and emotional detail. But it was a mistake.
To describe something as an accident is a lazy way of exempting oneself from the obligation of investigating or even preventing it in the first place.
Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by intention, however, the simplest movement, the briefest meditation, and the contents of one breath cycle are made potent.
Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.
An intention synchronistically organizes its own fulfillment.
You are either creating consciously
or creating by egoic default.
My free will is a paradoxical partner of the power of intention.
When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.
Coincidence is a spiritual pun.
A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.
It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.
Intention is nice, but it's a thing sometimes based more on hope than on reality.
In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.
Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention?
I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.
The perfection of intention. In the end, it is all that matters.
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.
Spontaneity is being present in the present.
This empty act could no more be mistaken for a mother's touch than the wind that fills out some dress on a clothesline might be confused with an actual body.
I am a person who lives my life based on intention. I don't do anything without intention because intention determines the outcome of your life. It's like cause and effect.
He though of all the
different ways to make it
look like an accident.
It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences
In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.
Coincidence. But the eagerness to find meaning in such coincidences is love.
A glint of intention initiates the process of creation.
There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.
sake of exactness
To you to live a significant life, you have to become intentional.
What men call accident is God's own part.
Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.
The intention manifests when the condition is appropriate.
God never does anything accidentally...
Without intent all painting is meaningless.
Any planning that I have in my career is totally accidental really.