Intentionality Quotes

“Don’t look at the person who has it all. Look to the person who doesn’t need it all.”
― Toyin Omofoye

“You cannot live with intent if you don’t know what your own intentions are.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“You can't be everything to everyone. At some point you need to make a choice of what truly matters to you and why.”
― David Amerland, Intentional: How To Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully

“Contentment is realized when gratitude becomes a lifestyle.”
― Toyin Omofoye

“If you are not consciously building your habits, they are unconsciously building you.”
― Anika J. Green, Out of the Habit: Finding Happiness, Meaning and Fulfillment Through a Life on Purpose

“The future does not consist of simply a state of time which is going to occur, but contains the element, “I will make it so.” Power is potentiality, and potentiality points toward the future: is something to be realized. The future is the tense in which we promise ourselves, we give a promissory note, we put ourselves on the line. Nietzsche's statement, “Man is the only animal who can make promises,” is related to our capacity to posit ourselves in the future. We are reminded here also of William James's fiat, “Let it be so.” The hopelessness of many patients, which may be expressed in depression, despair, feelings of “I can't,” and related helplessness, can be usefully seen, from one point of view, as the inability to see or construct a future.”
― Rollo May, Love and Will

“When talking about my relationship with God, or any other area of my life, I want to choose to GROW. Incidentally, my waistline is contradictory to this. It grows when I ignore it and only decreases when I am intentional!”
― Rachelle Triay, GROW: A COACH APPROACH TO CHRISTIAN GROWTH

“Goals without a sense of hope often fail to be reached. Hope without a set of goals materializes nothing of value. We need both for intentionality to function.”
― David Amerland, Intentional: How To Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully

“Narratives, stories, help create a deeper sense of shared identity. They generate meaning and foster cooperative actions through neurochemical correlates that kick into motion as the brain responds to the narrative and release elevated levels of oxytocin. Context fixes our sense of who we are in relation to where and when we are.”
― David Amerland, Intentional: How To Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully

“如果旅程本身就是目的地，就如同那些熱情擁抱當下的人常說的，我們必須學習如何成為更好的旅人。要成為更好的旅人，首先要找到自己的定位。現在的你身在何處？你希望待在這裡嗎？如果答案是否定的，那麼你想要前往何處？”
― Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future

“忙碌的生活容易讓我們的信念與言行分離。就像水一樣，我們傾向於選擇阻力最小的那條路徑。我們很難在每一天的忙碌中，養成新習慣。但是任何一位運動員都會告訴你，你得一再經歷肌肉撕裂與重新鍛鍊的過程。就像鍛鍊肌肉，我們也需要訓練、強化有意識的行動。”
― Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future

“Had I really been okay using comparison and busyness as an excuse for being stuck?”
― Emily Grabatin, Dare to Decide: Discovering Peace, Clarity and Courage at Life's Crossroads

“Although some neuroscientists contend that free will is an illusion, I would respectfully disagree by saying that free will may be slightly overrated but still indispensable for consciousness to function in our physical world. In fact, free will and consciousness are inseparable. Free will, just like intentionality, is an integral feature of consciousness, 'conscious choice' made by mind with the guidance of the larger consciousness system and our collective will in the space of all logically available probabilities.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution

“I can hear the nettlesome wails of these rowdy children arguing over whether some object in a crayon rendering is, in fact, the sun or the moon or otherwise simply a lopsided sky egg. I wonder briefly at the intention behind manifestation, but then resign myself to an understanding that all of this work is arbitrary. There will always be the indelible contradiction that introduces doubt, and this will serve to overwhelm the purpose. And so, no decisive answers can be had with respect to this rendering, and I cannot help but feel rather sad myself at this.”
― Ashim Shanker, trenches parallax leapfrog

“Because we all pick our reality from the slivers and hunks of our history, using our own special processing plant, the world we construct will always be different from anyone else’s world.”
― Kelly Corbet

“We call it a “full moon,” or a “crescent moon,” etc., but the moon never changes its shape. We just see it from a different angle, and that changes everything.
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Of course we know the moon doesn’t change shape! The point is just to notice how our vocabulary around something makes us “see” it a certain way.”
― Kelly Corbet, BIG: the practice of joy

“We have to choose growth. Rarely does growth happen without us becoming intentional.”
― Rachelle Triay, GROW: A COACH APPROACH TO CHRISTIAN GROWTH

“Between the unattainable intention of the author and the arguable intention of the reader, there is the transparent intention of the text, which refutes untenable interpretations.”
― Umberto Eco, Confessions of a Young Novelist

“We are a product of evolution. Evolution is driven by survival not truth. In seeking truth we acknowledge that we need to do more than just survive in order to thrive.”
― David Amerland, Intentional: How To Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully

“If you ask yourself “why” you will have to confront the truth behind what you want and what you do and the choices you made that got you there.”
― David Amerland, Intentional: How To Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully

“Fill everything, but own nothing.
We are vessels, not containers”
― Dr. Toyin Omofoye

“Our desire for a cause that will allow us to commit ourselves mind and body to its banner is a cry for clarity in a world that is unclear and a need for certainty in a reality that is fundamentally uncertain.”
― David Amerland, Intentional: How To Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully

“Philosophers have long regarded intentionality as a puzzling phenomenon, for it is hard to see how it can arise in a purely physical world. After all, mental states presumably depend ultimately on the brain, and thus on neurons and their interconnections, but neurons do not seem to be ‘about’ anything, nor to have representational content. So how can intentionality fit into the world that modern science describes?

In the 1980s, the philosopher Ruth Millikan suggested an ingenious solution to this puzzle by drawing on Darwinism. To illustrate her basic idea, consider the honey bee’s waggle-dance. This is the complex figure-of-eight dance that honey bees use to signal to their hive mates the location of a food source. Since the bee’s dance has been shaped by natural selection for a particular purpose—correctly indicating where the food is—this allows us to discern a kind of proto-intentionality in the waggle-dance. We can sensibly say that a particular dance routine means that the food is located 30 metres away in the direction of the sun, in the sense that the biological function of the dance is to induce its hive mates to fly to this location. The bee’s waggle-dance is thus capable of misrepresentation—for the food may not actually be in this location, for example if the bee has accidentally performed the wrong routine. In short, Millikan’s idea is that representational content may be rendered scientifically respectable by reducing it to biological function, a notion which plays a bona fide role in evolutionary biology. This bold attempt to naturalize intentionality is controversial, but it illustrates how a biological perspective can help illuminate an old philosophical issue.”
― Samir Okasha, Philosophy of Biology: A Very Short Introduction

“Unconscious neural activity cannot be made conscious no matter how hard one tries. Part of ourselves is always hidden to us.”
― David Amerland, Intentional: How To Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully

“If I think behind me, I might break.
If I think forward, I lose now.
Forever will be a day like this
Strung perfectly on the necklace of days.”
― Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

“Effective ministry requires both intentionality and flexibility - being intentional about your goals while remaining flexible in your approach.”
― Justin Ho Guo Shun, The Art and Science of Practical Theology in Ministry: A Holistic Approach

“For anyone who says we’re culturally and technologically advanced beings not held in thrall by our environment consider how we start each year afresh simply because the rotation of the Earth around the sun takes precisely 365 days and we run our lives by the hour because the planet takes 24 hours to complete a rotation around its central axis.”
― David Amerland, Intentional: How To Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully

“This year is about being intentional with every goal that I set for myself.”
― LaTesha Monique

“Representation is a process of informational triangulation. Its aim is the specification of distal stimuli. It achieves that aim by corralling the output of multiple information channels integrated at their point of confluence. The integration process, in short, disambiguates individual information channels via the mutual constraints each channel provides others. The specificity won thereby falls on a continuum from the highly unspecific (simple transducers, little integrative depth) to the highly specific (subtle transducers, manifold integration).”
― Dan Lloyd, Simple Minds

“An act of unconscious discrimination that is the result of social conditioning is still intentional if not conscious.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci