Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
intentions lead to mental actions, and repeated mental actions become mental habits.
Jeremy Graves • The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness
Brentano proposed that we approach the mind in terms of its ‘intentions’ — a misleading word, which sounds like it means deliberate purposes. Instead it meant a general reaching or stretching, from the Latin root in-tend, meaning to stretch towards or into something.