Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Good Intentions

 Gonna try my hand at speed blogging again. That might be the only way I'm going to make another post happen. I've been meaning to post for about a week now, but somehow it hasn't happened. You what they say about good intentions... 

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. Khalil Gibran

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. Peter Drucker

Old habits eat good intentions for lunch. Change your habits so you can change your outcomes. Darren Hardy

Apparently, they say a lot of things about good intentions, as just a little googling proved. I'm only familiar with the saying by Samuel Johnson. Although he is credited with saying it in 1775, there are many earlier versions out there, including some translations in the Bible. Or so Wikipedia says. Now you know all of my reliable sources -Google and Wiki. 😉
My timer just went off, which is set at 14 minutes today. I didn't get very far in the post because I got a little distracted wondering about the saying, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." Oh, well.
Until next time...

8 comments:

  1. Good intentions are useless without follow up action.

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    1. Another good saying, Strayer. I shall add it to my list.

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  2. You post some thought provoking posts with your speed blogging! For us, intentions count. Something done without intention (accidentally stepping on and killing an insect while out walking) doesn't really count, but, stepping on an insect with the intention to kill it counts, even if the insect manages to get away.
    But, I like the quote by Khalil Gibran. :)

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    1. That's a whole other way to look at the word intention using it like purposeful. That's thought provoking for me. There were a lot of quotes on the source I read, but I picked the few that spoke to me.

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  3. That's odd. I thought I posted a comment last night. I know I intended to. ;)

    I am familiar with the first and last quotes. I also like the Khalil Gibran quote.

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    1. Blogger seems to have a mind of its own sometimes. Who knows how many comments are floating around in Blogger Land?

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    2. Can you imagine reading all of those unrelated floating comments? :)

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    3. No, and I don't want to try even though I would find a few of my own. :)

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