Intention Quotes - Page 25

• However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher ends in view, and works in a pre-eminent degree on the inner feelings and disposition.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Views, Feelings, Degrees

  7 Copy quote

• The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to church; a place made remote - by agreed untruth and procedural complexity, and by tedium itself - from the risk of intense public involvement.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Government, Risk, Church

  7 Copy quote

• Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions.

  William Whewell

  Men, Desire, Action

  William Whewell (1845). “The Elements of Morality, Including Polity”, p.172

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

  Laura Lippman

  People, Good Intentions, Dangerous

  Laura Lippman (2015). “The Last Place”, p.44, Faber & Faber

  73 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Writing, Names

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

  Isaac Mayer Wise

  Self, Genius, Inconsiderate

  Isaac Mayer Wise (1876). “The Cosmic God: A Fundamental Philosophy in Popular Lectures”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring to pass; and, without doubt, of all passions which actually disturb the mind of man, it is most in our power to extinguish, at least, to suppress and correct, our anger.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Anger, Passion, Pride

  11 Copy quote

• it is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.

  Heloise

  Deeds, Crime

  26 Copy quote

• So actions themselves are not good and not bad; only the intention is important.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Important, Action

  Stephen Mitchell (1994). “Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn”, p.65, Grove Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.

  Jean-Marc Vallee

  Song, Character, Magic

  "Director Jean-Marc Vallée Talks DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, Looking for Humanity in the True Story, and His Next Project WILD". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 4, 2013.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened.

  Jeff Baena

  Writing, Convenient, Happened

  "Why Dane DeHaan and Aubrey Plaza’s ‘Life After Beth’ Make Out Could Have Been Awkward". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.thewrap.com. August 7, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was in my late thirties and decided my intention in life had nothing to do with the acquiring of material things, but rather it was now my intention to experience the evolution of my own soul and to grow spiritually. I wanted to come to know the highest truths of life and to express those truths in action, through myself. I wanted to become the grandest version of the greatest idea I ever held about who I am in regards to my relationship with God.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Ideas, Who I Am, Soul

  4 Copy quote

• A lot of people want to judge the fact that I'm an actor. That's ridiculous. No one knows what I was doing before I made my first movie. I just happened to do it as an actor all the while I've been doing music, but never with the intention to become a screaming famous pop star.

  Taryn Manning

  Stars, Judging, People

  Source: www.complex.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.

  Tom Selleck

  Judging, Lasts, Good Intentions

  Source: www.gq.com

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe that people, more often than not, act with the best possible intentions. And when they don't, that's funny to me. That's why comedy ends up seeming cynical, because you're talking about the gap between what people say and what they do.

  Stephen Colbert

  Believe, Talking, People

  4 Copy quote

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

  Francois Rabelais

  Mean, Honor, Doe

  11 Copy quote

• Everything has a personality: everything sends an emotional signal. Even where this was not the intention of the designer, the people who view the website infer personalities and experience emotions. Bad websites have horrible personalities and instill horrid emotional states in their users, usually unwittingly. We need to design things-products, websites, services-to convey whatever personality and emotions are desired.

  Donald A. Norman

  Emotional, Views, People

  9 Copy quote

• No product is an island. A product is more than the product. It is a cohesive, integrated set of experiences. Think through all of the stages of a product or service - from initial intentions through final reflections, from first usage to help, service, and maintenance. Make them all work together seamlessly. That's systems thinking.

  Donald A. Norman

  Reflection, Thinking, Islands

  10 Copy quote

• Even today . . . experts, usually male, tell women how to be mothers and warn them that they should not have children if they have any intention of leaving their side in their early years. . . . Children don't need parents' full-time attendance or attention at any stage of their development. Many people will help take care of their needs, depending on who their parents are and how they chose to fulfill their roles.

  Stella Chess

  Mother, Children, Years

  4 Copy quote

• I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is wrong, and it doesn't make the author's views less right. Poets, like their poems, are "hopeful monsters".

  Alice Fulton

  Reading, Mean, Views

  Alice Fulton (1999). “Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.

  Rembrandt

  Artist, Realizing, Finished

  42 Copy quote

• I always knew I wanted to be an actor. I was talented in college but not the most talented. But I knew I wanted to do it, and that intention got me there and kept me there.

  Susanna Thompson

  College, Actors, Wanted

  "Susanna Thompson: ‘Arrow’ Star Talks Career And Staying Young". Interview with Shelley Emling, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is impossible that the intention of the entrepreneur who has borrowed in order to increase investment can become effective (except in substitution for investment by other entrepreneurs which would have occurred otherwise) at a faster rate than the public decide to increase their savings

  John Maynard Keynes

  Philosophy, Order, Entrepreneur

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.75, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• War has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end.

  George F. Kennan

  War, Thoughtful, Iraq

  "George Kennan Speaks Out About Iraq". historynewsnetwork.org. August 08, 2005.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

  Thomas Keating

  Prayer, Expression, Attention

  7 Copy quote