Intention Quotes - Page 10

• The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches--and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or despair...toward self-righteousness or self-hatred.

  Phil Vischer

  Teacher, Kids, Pride

  Phil Vischer (2012). “Sidney and Norman: A Tale of Two Pigs”, p.46, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Angel, Vampire, Shadow

  "Why women find vampires hot" by Jeaniene Frost, www.cnn.com. June 30, 2010.

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• I have been given permission to announce that I and others from All My Children have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought AMC, with the intention to move it online.

  Cameron Mathison

  Children, Moving, Parks

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• There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.

  Plato

  Integrity, Men, Hearing

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• It may seem strange, but Congress has never developed a set of goals for guiding Federal Reserve policy. In founding the System, Congress spoke about the country's need for "an elastic currency." Since then, Congress has passed the Full Employment Act, declaring its general intention to promote "maximum employment, production, and purchasing power." But it has never directly counseled the Federal Reserve.

  Wright Patman

  Wisdom, Country, Goal

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• I guess I'm a spiritual secularist, if that's not an oxymoron. My paths of secularism and spirituality are the same: I try to do the appropriate thing at each moment.

  Paul Krassner

  Spiritual, Trying, Path

  "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, www.thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.

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• Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Morning, Minutes

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• One of the most amazing things I got from the film, so much green screen, there are so many moments and it really taught me about how important it is to have an intention when flying, when going somewhere and having an intention.

  Brandon Routh

  Flying, Important, Green

  "Brandon Routh for “Superman Returns”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.

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• I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Past, Men, Thinking

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• Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.

  Edmund Burke

  Mean, Views, Government

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.75

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• My intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For me photography is writing, it is history; it can be aesthetic, it can be many things though it does not have to be art.

  Graciela Iturbide

  Photography, Art, Writing

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• There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere. Moreover, human nature can easily deny God because the whole race has long been in rebellion against Him. Yet there is that in human nature which calls out to the supreme examples of virtue: owns, as it were, the intention of God who made it, and feels the unmistakable homesickness of the soul.

  Bill Vaughan

  Men, Race, Long

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• If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, World, Might

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• It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.

  Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

  Motivation, Heart, Men

  Case of John Lambert and others, 22 How. St. Tr. 1018, 1793.

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• Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels of intention, levels of confidence, levels of aggression or control.

  Leon Golub

  Artist, Important, Records

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• My intention is never to hurt anybody. I'm happy when people are having a good time.

  Adam Sandler

  Hurt, People, Good Times

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• Iliad by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection or Homer's intentions. It didn't seem like we had come very far.

  Brad Pitt

  Stories, Literature, Today

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Sacred scripture wishes simply to declare that the world was created by God, and in order to teach this truth it expressed itself in terms of the cosmology in use at the time of the writer. Any other teaching about the origin and makeup of the universe is so alien to the intentions of the Bible, which does not wish to teach how heaven was made but how one goes to heaven.

  Pope John Paul II

  Teaching, Makeup, Order

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• It was simply this: silence is not a neutral position, whatever your intentions. Silence automatically supports the status quo. When you are a presence that lacks a voice, you create an empty space that another voice - a dominating voice that knows no boundaries - is only too happy to fill.

  Justine Musk

  Voice, Space, Support

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• A good intention does not mean honor.
  [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Mean, Honor, Doe

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• The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important of all created things. Man surveys the starry heavens and hears with his ears of the plurality of worlds; yet his religion bids him believe that his alone out of these innumerable spheres is the object of his master's love and sacrifice.

  Ouida

  Christian, Believe, Humble

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• The root of honesty is an honest intention, the distinct and deliberate purpose to be true, to handle facts as they are, and not as we wish them to be. Facts lend themselves to manipulation. Many a butcher's hand is worth more than its weight in gold. What we want things to be, we come to see them to be; and the tailor pulls the coat and the truth into a perfect fit from his point of view.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Honesty, Roots, Views

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• With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

  William James

  Good Intentions, Hell, Mere

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.

  James Madison

  Men, Sound, Degrees

  James Madison, John Jay (1847). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.216

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• half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Procrastination, Frustrated, Half

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.363

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