Not Intentional Quotes

#1. As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I intended.

David W. Earle

#2. While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.

Rick Perlstein

#3. Each production has certain circumstances that will bring you to a certain way of making it. It is not intentional, it is not an artistic decision, the way we make films, it is the way we address to our problems.

Wong Kar-Wai

#4. The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.

George Soros

#5. 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.

George Soros

#6. What women need to understand is that men don't communicate. It's not intentional or on purpose. We're just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Kevin Hart

#7. 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.

Danny Fox

#8. What is chemistry in a relationship, Really? Chemistry can be spontaneous combustion that excites, incites, often harms. But not understood. Chemistry can also be that which is studied, intentional, and knows how to be repeated and improved upon. Do you have the right chemistry?

Lucille Anderson

#9. 2+2=5 wasn't intentional. I thought you carry a 1 every time there are two 2's in an equation. I'm not stupid, the mathematicians is stupid

Thom Yorke

#10. If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick.

Mark Twain

#11. The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.

Marianne Williamson

#12. Not asking questions: Giving up on your dreams: Settling for less than you deserve causes you pain, a pain owned by the majority.

Be among the few who are inquisitive, forge plans to chase their dreams and take intentional action to live the life aligned with their potential.

Tony Curl

#13. Goals and dreams are not purposed to please others. I'd rather be the jester who adds value to those around me than a King with no vision or intention of making a difference.

Janna Cachola

#14. When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

Alfie Kohn

#15. Her technique was not perfect. Here and there he heard an off-pitch note, and her run of sixteenths was uneven. But her attack was fierce, her bow digging into the strings with such confidence that even her mistakes sounded intentional, every note played without apology.

Tess Gerritsen

#16. Every intentional thought, word, or deed-right now and in your past-it all makes you what you are today. Your choices, not your neighbor's or your wife's or you boyfriend's-your decisions determine your karma.

Lucie Smoker

#17. DID YOU KNOW WHETHER OR NOT [SPOILER REDACTED BECAUSE I KNOW PEOPLE WILL READ THIS DISCUSSION GUIDE BEFORE THEY'VE READ THE BOOK, EVEN THOUGH I JUST FORBADE YOU TO DO SO LIKE SIX PARAGRAPHS AGO] WAS INTENTIONAL WHILE YOU WERE WRITING IT?

John Green

#18. It's not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities.

Kristin Armstrong

#19. I'd be happy to play anyone's girlfriend. I'm happy to be working, ever. It's not an intentional thing to play these messed up, crazy characters, but I'm happy to do it 'cause someone's got to.

Madeline Zima

#20. Forgiveness is manifested mercy; it is live in action - not love based on a feeling, but love based on a decision, an intentional choice to obey God.

Joyce Meyer

#21. Growth is only possible in an environment that is consistent, intentional, and positive. This is not an event; instead, growth happens daily, not in a day.

Farshad Asl

#22. If I've done anything intentional about my career, is that I really have not - I've chosen to try to do as many different types of things as possible. That's really what I like to do.

Dennis Quaid

#23. In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

Axl Rose

#24. Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.

Frederick Lenz

#25. Many times busyness is often mistakenly equated with productivity. But those words are not synonymous. Just because we're spinning our wheels, rushing from one commitment to the next, doesn't necessarily mean that we are doing anything worthwhile.

Crystal Paine

#26. Balance only happens in dynamic tension. Balance is giving not equal but appropriate attention to each of the various categories of your life.

Michael Hyatt

#27. Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#28. Being pursued, while easy, is purposeful. Intentional. Deliberate. It's not about getting a guy's attention--it's a process of ensuring that he's "the one."

Of all the men holding glass slippers, he has to be your perfect fit.

Bethany Jett

#29. Thus the key to happiness lies not in changing our genetic makeup (which is impossible) and not in changing our circumstances (i.e., seeking wealth or attractiveness or better colleagues, which is usually impractical), but in our daily intentional activities.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#30. You must create more margin so you have room for what's important, not merely urgent.

Michael Hyatt

#31. And now having a child has been taken out of the sphere of biological determinism and placed instead in the domain of intentional action. Another option to consider and decide upon. And ... not to choose is to choose.

Rebecca Goldstein

#32. Worship is the actual act of ascribing worth directly to God. Worshipful actions may do this indirectly, but when the Bible commands and commends worship as our highest expression, it is not talking about anything other than direct, intentional, Vertical outpouring of adoration.

James MacDonald

#33. For most, reconciliation will not happen as a part of a normal course of events. It has to be intentional.

Wayne Gordon

#34. Faith is not the belief that everything will be all right tomorrow, but the belief that I possess the strength to make everything all right today.

Charles F. Glassman

#35. Powerful Leaders are intentional about not repeating history by always being open to the unprecedented; what's in your future?

Michael Walker

#36. Discovering your calling is not an epiphany but a series of intentional decisions. It looks less like a giant leap and more like building a bridge.

Jeff Goins

#37. You're not to say or do anything sexual. You will also not swear or be rude to me."
"I often blurt things out before I think. It's not always intentional.

Marita A. Hansen

#38. 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.

William Gibson

#39. Life is too short not to start something stupid.

Richie Norton

#40. Being on mission is not always about going to a specific place - it's about being intentional where you are. That's investment. And investment is always intentional. It's a lifestyle choice.

Dustin Willis

#41. Sins of ignorance or infirmity are to be admonished in a different way than intentional sins of malice of intention. The assurance of forgiveness is not to be offered carelessly by those whose conscience is seared, but to penitents who come contritely to the table of the Lord.

Thomas C. Oden

#42. It's not an accidental entanglement; it's an intentional knot. Love belongs with belonging.

Brene Brown

#43. Mistakes happen. Not every one of my suspensions was purposeful or intentional. A lot of that stuff happens spur of the moment in the middle of a game. I think I can bring that to the table. Sometimes emotions get the best of you. Things happen.

Chris Pronger

#44. Don't just do it once. Remember that every day is a "No Excuses" day. It is not enough to have the "No Excuses" mindset every once in awhile.

Farshad Asl

#45. Visual journals are created in a secret language of symbols. Intentional or not, they are private maps only their makers can follow.

Jennifer New

#46. That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Abraham Lincoln

#47. Positive thinking by itself does not work. Your embodied vision, partnered with vibrant and energetic thinking, and balanced with active listening, followed with intentional action - will clear the path for your miracles.

Sumner Davenport

#48. There is not point keeping up with the Joneses if they're going someplace you don't want to go.

Michael Hyatt

#49. It was about more fully inhabiting the life I have, not creating a new one.

Patti Digh

#50. Hypothesis: Intentional or not, movement to a beat = dancing.

Gordon Korman

#51. It is not an "imitation of Christ" but its exact opposite: an assimilation of the Christ-image to his own self, which is the "true man."349 It is no longer an effort, an intentional straining after imitation, but rather an involuntary experience of the reality represented by the sacred legend. This

C. G. Jung

#52. What do I wish I could be doing if money or status were not an issue?

Michael Hyatt

#53. Not a mindless relinquishing of physical dignity in exchange for favors or pleasure, but an intentional vulnerability far more dangerous and lasting.

Grace Burrowes

#54. Simply giving something 'a shot' is not giving something our 'best,' for our best is made up of as many 'shots' as it takes in order to be our best.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#55. I think that I have come at it backwards in a way because a lot of what I'm doing as a songwriter is not incredibly intentional. There's a moment that happens which creates the song or the actual idea for a song, and then I'm like, "Oh, it's this kind of song."

Mirah