Intention famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great
-- Abdullah ibn Mubarak -
The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!
-- Adolf Hitler -
I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
-- Alberto Giacometti -
In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences
-- Alija Izetbegovic -
Be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you
-- Amor Towles -
We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.
-- Amy Dickinson -
You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?
-- Amy Tan -
I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.
-- Analeigh Tipton -
Direction, not intention determines your destination.
-- Andy Stanley -
A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.
-- Anselm of Canterbury -
Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination,
-- Antonin Artaud -
I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.
-- Ariel Pink -
The cypress boat is frequently a symbol of fluctuating intention.
-- Arthur Waley -
I wasn´t expecting to come home to you, but now that you´re here, I have no intention of letting you leave." Patch :D (p. 295)
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
-- Ben Whishaw -
Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.
-- Bob Beauprez -
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.
-- Brendan Gill -
All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.
-- Brenna Yovanoff -
Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.
-- Carl Jung -
I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.
-- Carl Lewis -
With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.
-- Carrie Brownstein -
On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.
-- Charles Sturt -
Do any of us know how we’re actually doing? Whether or not all the hard work and good intentions are paying off?
-- Cheryl Heller -
Never underestimate the power of intention.
-- Cheryl Richardson -
The worker faithful to the well has neither the intention, or time, to violate the name and the service of others.
-- Chico Xavier -
Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.
-- Chris Brogan -
Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.
-- Christian Dior -
It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
-- Chuck Berry -
I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone
-- Claire Bloom -
Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?
-- Courteney Cox -
Rather than just reacting to the waves of things that come, ride them with deliberate intention.
-- Craig Groeschel -
I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
-- Damian Lewis -
All communication begins with an intention, and your intention determines the quality of your life.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
Part of being a conscious human being, is having an intention. And if you put an intention into whatever you do, it’s definitely going to be more satisfying in the end
-- Daphne Guinness -
I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them.
-- Dave Grohl -
The intention manifests when the condition is appropriate.
-- David Hawkins -
Assured her I’ve never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now,
-- David Mitchell -
I place my intention into the vast ocean of all possibilities and allow the universe to work through me.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Every intention is a trigger for transformation.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Make sure your intentions are not only for yourself, but also for the common good.
-- Deepak Chopra -
The highest intention comes from love and compassion ... when our intentions come from a place of love and compassion then we have the power of the universe.
-- Deepak Chopra -
I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention.
-- Diahann Carroll -
It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
-- Diana Ross -
[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect
-- Diane Arbus -
There is no art when one does something without intention.
-- Duke Ellington -
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
-- E. Stanley Jones -
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
-- Edvard Munch -
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
-- Edward Albee -
I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.
-- Edward Blake -
One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121)
-- Edward Conze -
I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.
-- Edward Gorey -
Our intention is to clarify and modernize overtime pay rules,
-- Elaine Chao -
I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working.
-- Elaine Stritch -
Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.
-- Elizabeth Berg -
One thing I've learned: My intentions are clear in terms of quality.
-- Elizabeth Berkley -
I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
-- Elizabeth Edwards -
I assure you my professions never go beyond my intentions ...
-- Elizabeth Inchbald -
Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions.
-- Emil Ludwig -
I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
-- Fiona Shaw -
I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.
-- Francois Gautier -
Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.
-- Gao Xingjian -
That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.
-- Garth Stein -
Every intention sets energy into motion Whether you are conscious of it or not.
-- Gary Zukav -
The Universe backs the part of you that is of clearest intention
-- Gary Zukav -
I never went out in the morning with the intention of getting drunk. It just happened.
-- George Best -
I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
-- George McGovern -
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
-- George Orwell -
An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.
-- Georges Bataille -
You will allow that one's curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had not the least intention of making!
-- Georgette Heyer -
Once you know your deepest wish you can base your life on intention rather than craving
-- Gil Fronsdal -
Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.
-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -
My body is the intention. My body is the event. My body is the result.
-- Gunter Brus -
You don’t make art out of good intentions.
-- Gustave Flaubert -
Judging others’ intentions is the right of God alone. We don’t have this right, and it is poor manners with God.
-- Habib Ali al-Jifri -
It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
-- Hans Blix -
I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.
-- Harmon Killebrew -
One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions.
-- Heather Langenkamp -
We know the Russian methods exactly. I haven't the faintest intention of being taken prisoner by the Russians.
-- Heinrich Muller -
it is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.
-- Heloise -
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
-- Henri Bergson -
Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.
-- Hiroshi Sugimoto -
Intention is the core of all conscious life. Conscious intention colors and moves everything.
-- Hsing Yun -
Success is clarity of my intention....and reaching that intention while being true to myself and with joy.
-- India.Arie -
Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.
-- Isaac Mayer Wise -
I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.
-- Isaac Pitman
