
Top 100 Intentionally Quotes
#1. If there was no intentional walks, the guy would just walk him anyway, unintentionally intentionally walk him. You see a lot more of that than what meets the eye.
George Brett
#2. I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for the day, because the days get crazy.
Anne Graham Lotz
#3. Nobody sane wants to disappoint himself intentionally.
Toba Beta
#4. The more spiritual successes that Edwards experienced, the more he seemed to intentionally infuse his sermons with language deemed to move a person's emotional center - their souls - to spiritually and physically respond.
Matthew Paul Turner
#5. You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.
Dave Ramsey
#6. Learn to slow down. Get lost intentionally. Observe how you judge both yourself and those around you.
Timothy Ferriss
#7. I believe that God totally, absolutely, intentionally gives us more than we can handle. Because this is when we surrender to Him and He takes over, proving Himself by doing the impossible in our lives.
Katie J. Davis
#8. Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us.
Phil Anselmo
#9. He had been committed, absorbed and unthinking. Intentionally, because the story was so good. So good he felt like he'd been damaged by it, permanently.
Adam Nevill
#10. Church is God's people intentionally committing to die together so that others can find his kingdom.
Hugh Halter
#11. I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.
Trevor Noah
#12. I've changed the way I look a bit but not intentionally. I've cut my hair. I've got a bit of pink in it and lately I've become a bit monochrome, wearing a lot of black and white.
Ellie Goulding
#13. Success is a choice; you choose it and work it out! Excellence is deliberate and so it is intentionally pursued. No successful person ever remained idle for success to knock his/her door for him/her
Israelmore Ayivor
#14. I don't know what else I can say. I have never taken steroids. For people who think I took steroids intentionally, I'm never going to convince them. But I hope the voters judge my career fairly and don't look at one mistake.
Rafael Palmeiro
#15. You have to become complete in some way; a universe - a complete thing in yourself - in order to reach across and breathe some unity onto this thing you're faced with. If you intentionally avoid that unity that is within yourself then you will avoid unity in your work.
Milton Resnick
#16. Disinformation is distinguished from misinformation in that it is intentionally fraudulent.
Ellen P. Lacter
#17. Usually your kids' positive qualities come less from your making them awesome and more from just not intentionally squashing the random things they're inherently born with that make them awesome.
Jenny Lawson
#18. Are you meeting people?"
Yeah, she thought, you people.
"Not intentionally," she said.
Rainbow Rowell
#19. I intentionally built a business that has absolutely nothing to do with appearance.
Kathy Ireland
#21. I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new math" was the premature introduction of technical terms.
George Polya
#22. Some teachers are extremely inaccessible. They feel their teachings are for very few so they make it intentionally hard to get to themselves.
Frederick Lenz
#23. In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.
Francis Chan
#24. Stewardship means to consciously take up our cultural power, investing it intentionally among the seemingly powerless, putting our power at their disposal to enable them to cultivate and create.
Andy Crouch
#25. I would never, ever intentionally hurt a player contractually.
Jerry West
#26. To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse.
Henna Inam
#27. Denial may be neither a matter of telling the truth nor intentionally telling a lie. There seem to be states of mind, or even whole cultures, in which we know and don't know at the same time.
Stanley Cohen
#28. Accepting God's acceptance of me doesn't mean I'm going to stop trying. It means I'm going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession.
Steven Furtick
#29. In terms of style, too, I think I've been working with a somewhat limited
although intentionally limited
set of tools. So I'm attempting to be a bit looser as I start stories off. To digress. To make interesting mistakes.
Kelly Link
#30. One of the things about politics, when you're actually there, you realize, you're on a high wire and there is no net under you. On any given day, your campaign can implode for something that happens inadvertently or even intentionally.
Mike Huckabee
#31. While many of my musicals deal with big themes and ideas, I don't intentionally go looking to write shows like that. A story will interest me, and then somewhere along the way, I discover that hidden inside are these epic themes.
Stephen Schwartz
#32. Consciously and unconsciously, intentionally and involuntarily, willfully and unsuspectingly, our beliefs are the sum total of our lives. It's that simple.
Patty Houser
#33. Ultimately, people write to be understood (excepting Gertrude Stein and Tristan Tzara, who were intentionally being difficult).
John Scalzi
#34. Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which I'm laying it down in front of? Therefore, I would be wise to recognize that surrender is less the absence of power and more the presence of fear.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#35. Some intentionally injure others through mocking, sarcasm with no intent to help. Others are trying to help.
Sterling W. Sill
#36. People are "punished" or "rewarded" not for what they have done but for what they have become, and what we intentionally do is what makes us what we are.
David R. Loy
#37. Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe
Soren Kierkegaard
#38. I have always wanted to midcourse-correct (or undermine) in a poem, and let that be the turn. That poem is to do with displacement, with almosts - even the rhymes are intentionally off.
Randall Mann
#39. Christmas was an intentionally intentional decision of the greatest sort ever devised that would result in the greatest cost ever conceived; God would die.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#40. Why should a man intentionally live his life with one kind of anxiety followed by another?
Imbolo Mbue
#41. In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but only in that aspect of it which is important for us, the rest being intentionally or from necessity omitted.
Ernst Mach
#42. I meditate. Like, I try. Not every day, but even if I'm not doing that meditation, the moments of my day have changed because I'm not on my phone so much. I'm intentionally not checking my phone every two seconds.
Anderson Cooper
#43. A change doesn't always happen because we intentionally ask for it, but because it's a reality of life.
Ramona Matta
#44. When you've gone to silence and are trying way too hard to convince yourself that you've done the right thing, you might want to examine whether you are intentionally minimizing the cost of not speaking up and exaggerating the risks of doing so.
Kerry Patterson
#45. I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought.
Stanley Hauerwas
#46. I suppose I have cause you grief and misery at times, but I have never intentionally caused you embarrassment and discomfort.
Howard Fast
#47. When a certain number of people come together and they choose at a moment in time to create a precise emotion in their hearts, that emotion literally can intentionally influence the very fields that sustain the life on planet earth.
Gregg Braden
#48. I don't intentionally try to find the scripts with unattractive characters, but I think that if a character is described in a script as heart-stoppingly beautiful, and there's nothing else said about her, it just doesn't hold a lot of interest for me.
Amy Adams
#49. To imply that domestic abuse is only inflicted against women by men is at best, ill informed, and at worst, intentionally deceptive. To acknowledge domestic violence against men does not diminish the injustices suffered by women. In fact, it gives men and women common cause to go forward together.
Mark Greene
#50. Powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.
Beth Moore
#51. There are two kinds of hot girls: Evil Hot Girls, and Hot Girls Who Are Also Sympathetic Good-Hearted People and Will Not Intentionally Destroy Your Life (HGWAASGHPAWNIDYL).
Jesse Andrews
#52. Your life has been intentionally designed by God to have a uniquely significant and eternal impact on the world around you.
Tony Dungy
#53. Strategize yearly, plan quarterly, examine monthly, reflect weekly, act daily, and live #intentionally.
Farshad Asl
#54. Pride is unstable because other people are absentmindedly or intentionally treating the proud man's ego with less reverence than he thinks it deserves.
Timothy Keller
#55. You never want to intentionally make a confusing movie.
Joseph Kosinski
#56. Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#57. He wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close enough that she could hear his heart beating. I would never intentionally hurt you, Aiwattsi. If I ever did break your heart, it would break mine too.
Victoria Vane
#58. For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.
Haruki Murakami
#59. No, I only think you cruel, as I said the other day. Maybe not intentionally cruel; but you seem to be forcing me into disclosures which can result in nothing; as if you would have me bare a wound for the pleasure of looking at it, without the intention or power of healing it.
Kate Chopin
#60. Sometimes I intentionally cut it off. I just want to be in silence, especially when I'm traveling. I watch movies without sound.
A.R. Rahman
#61. There's a big difference to me between the people who are famous and just accept the fact that it comes with the territory of what they do, and the people who actively seek it out, who intentionally put themselves in the position of being on camera and being famous.
Jon Glaser
#62. Never thought I'd intentionally sleep on a bathromm floor next to a toilet while sober, but I meant it when I said I would sleep anywhere with her.
J.A. Redmerski
#63. Brad [Dourif] would tell himself that he was not intentionally trying to mimic Jack Nicholson in any way. I think that actually bothers him a little bit. I just think maybe they have similar voices.
David Kirschner
#64. Just because you've a best Insurance, doesn't mean you've to collide intentionally.
Sarvesh Jain
#65. Powerful Leaders intentionally pursue their vocation of who they are not a career of what they do; what's calling you?
Michael Walker
#66. Likewise, it's never just to cause trouble or be intentionally divisive. It's just that fun needs to be recovered to Christendom.
John Crowder
#67. There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.
Thomas Perry
#68. Chernobyl, while an accident in the sense that no one intentionally set it off, was also the deliberate product of a culture of cronyism, laziness, and a deep-seated indifference toward the general population.
Svetlana Alexievich
#69. I am convinced that I never wrong anyone intentionally...
Socrates
#70. Many of our efforts to intentionally craft and subsequently force our limited vision on life has more often than not resulted in some degree of cataclysm or schism or division or any number of other things that aren't all that savory.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#71. I wonder sometimes, though, if we intentionally or just unknowingly mask the beauty of God in the gospel by minimizing his various attributes.
David Platt
#72. What did you do to this?' he asked in a horrorstruck voice.
'It didn't want to come out of the dashboard.'
'So you felt the need to torture it?'
'You know how I am with tools. No pain was inflicted intentionally.'
He shook his head, his face a mask of faux tragedy. 'You killed it.
Stephenie Meyer
#73. When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.
Seth Godin
#74. The human spirit, padded in ignorance, is a wondrous thing. They move within their own orbits- each of the seemingly lost, or intentionally lost in his or her own endeavors- while shifting into and out of one another's lives.
Lorna Jane Cook
#75. With him, I didn't have to be afraid, not of what I could do intentionally or by mistake. I din't have to throw up every defence I possessed to keep my brain's wandering hands still, because Clancy was more than capable of keeping me out of his head.
Alexandra Bracken
#76. There's another mess of legal crap just came through from the UN for you." Holden sighed. "Am I supposed to read it?" "Don't see how they can make you," Amos said. "Just thought you'd want to ignore it intentionally." "Thank you. Sort of," Holden
James S.A. Corey
#77. Someone can intentionally send emotional poison, and if you don't take it personally, you will not eat it. When you don't take the emotional poison, it becomes even worse to the sender, but not in you.
Miguel Ruiz
#78. I think I'm a very kindhearted person, I don't like to hurt people's feelings. If I do, it's not intentionally and I feel a lot of people nowadays have lost that.
Selena
#79. Today he'd intentionally wandered too far. Wandered away from those who hovered around him like flies to a carcass.
Renee Ahdieh
#80. Clearly, there are things a runner does, intentionally or not, that disrupt team cohesion. And there are also things a runner doesn't do that can cause problems: not trying, showing up late, skipping team-building activities, and ignoring the coach's instructions.
Don Kardong
#81. Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
Barry O'Farrell
#82. How do you love somebody? It is just through living with them, at least intentionally, and working through problems as they arise.
Francis George
#83. After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.
Alphonso Jackson
#84. Love unconditionally, laugh intentionally, live strategically, and learn daily.
Hope D. Blackwell
#85. I work intentionally to try and make dense, complex things. We can move between genres and forms, from something that looks like a PowerPoint lecture to something that looks like an informercial to something that looks like a cinematic melodrama.
Elizabeth Price
#86. It went on and on; intentionally, unintentionally, it didn't matter. The end was the same: broken people left in pieces, lives fractured, love bludgeoned.
Wendy Jones
#87. Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre. The mix seems to work well.
Aaron Belz
#88. Procrastination is productive when done intentionally.
Ben Tolosa
#89. You can intentionally choose to spend more time with the people you enjoy most and engage your strengths as much as possible.
Tom Rath
#90. Mother's particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth's direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.
Mary Karr
#91. I play characters. I don't think I really have a persona per se. I don't play the same guy every time. I show up, you don't know what I'm gonna do. I like it that way. I've intentionally tried to do it that way. I think that's what's interesting.
Laurence Fishburne
#92. It's very, very difficult because we're living in a world where they invent things in order to hide things from parents. There are these secret creator app guys who make things to intentionally do that, to keep your parents in the dark, and you've really got to work extra-hard to stay on top of it.
Christian Slater
#93. I don't condone anyone causing damage in my name, or doing anything malicious in support of my plight. There are more productive ways to help me. As a hacker myself, I never intentionally damaged anything.
Kevin Mitnick
#94. I did not cry. I only breathed. Horribly. Intentionally. And then forgot to breathe.
Cheryl Strayed
#95. Good listening works magic ... Listen intently intentionally!
Frank Bettger
#97. No rational person would intentionally commit an act of evil, for everyone knows that it would bring the wrath of the community upon him. (Socrates)
Karen Essex
#98. In Iraq and Afghanistan, our soldiers signed up intentionally. That's a huge difference from the largely conscripted army of my era.
Tim O'Brien
#99. I'm struck when I see Jesus simply, intentionally, systematically, patiently walking alongside twelve men. Jesus reminds me that disciples are not mass-produced. Disciples of Jesus - genuine, committed, self-sacrificing followers of Christ - are not made overnight.
David Platt
#100. Your biggest challenge isn't that you've intentionally been making bad choices. Heck, that would be easy to fix. Your biggest challenge is that you've been sleepwalking through your choices.
Darren Hardy
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