Quotes and Sayings About Intention
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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 -
My intention is to do more films.
-- Adepero OduyeSource : Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 26, 2011.
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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 -
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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 TowlesSource : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.37, Penguin
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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 -
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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 StanleySource : Twitter post from Jun 29, 2012
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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 -
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Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.
-- Anthony KiedisSource : Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.188, Hachette UK
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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 -
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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 WhishawSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 GillSource : BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”
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All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.
-- Brenna YovanoffSource : Brenna Yovanoff (2011). “The Replacement”, p.64, Simon and Schuster
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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 -
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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 SturtSource : Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during ... 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831: with observations on New South Wales”, p.58
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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