Intention Quotes - Page 29

• My main intention was to not only create collections that defined myself and style, but to also create things that my fans identify with me and feel a belonging to.

  Ashley Purdy

  Style, Fans, Feels

  Source: marleymagazine.com

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• A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Two, Use, Language

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• I think Pringles initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber was supposed to show up, a big truckload of potatoes arrived. But Pringles is a laid back company. They said, "Screw it. Cut 'em up!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

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• My memory is not so good so my most memorable show is the last one I played. Songs are written with intention but they only emerge in the moment.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Memories, Memorable

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• I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.cliffsnotes.com

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• Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Light, Doubt, Secret

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Poems New and Collected”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Wisdom, Block

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.28, Penguin

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• It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Turkeys, People, Culture

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• I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to criticize it (unfairly, given my original modest intention) or to carry it far beyond the limits of what I then thought justified. This was why I may have seemed to backtrack.

  Richard Dawkins

  Numbers, Atheism, Culture

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Critical Race Theory offers of discrimination frameworks as ways of understanding and eradicating racism. The focus on "discrimination" as the way to understand racism in the US has meant that racism is considered a question of discriminatory intentions - whether or not somebody intentionally left someone out or did something harmful because of their biased feelings about a person's race. This focus on individual racists with bad ideas hides the reality that racism exists wherever conditions of racialized maldistribution exist.

  Dean Spade

  Reality, Race, Ideas

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control.

  Michael Lerner

  Spiritual, Fear, Generosity

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• He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention

  Adam Smith

  Ignorance, Invisible Hand, Hands

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 2, bk. 4, ch. 2 (1776) See Adam Smith 1

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• I have no intention of sharing my authority.

  Louis XVI of France

  Absolutism, Authority

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• I hire talented, creative, passionate learners who have a history of turning intention into reality.

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Christian, Reality

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• The nation should move towards one target, one direction, one intention and one decision.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Moving, One Direction

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• It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable

  Andrew Cohen

  Ignorance, Literature, Way

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• Manifesting the blessings is not really anything that is complicated or even difficult. Clear out what is not serving you or no longer actively being utilized. Give and share joyously. Receive graciously. Make amends. Adorn yourself first with inner beauty so the outer beauty may benefit from your best intentions. Contribute more than you take. Make each place you find yourself better than you found it. Be an abundant source of good tidings to and from God. In short, let go and let God.

  John Morton

  Letting Go, Blessing, Giving

  John Morton (2000). “The Blessings Already Are”, p.162, Mandeville Press

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• My original intention was to spend the money in my lifetime.

  George Soros

  Lifetime, Originals

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• When you drive to the grocery store, your intention is not to change the world, it just happens to have that impact. So we've done a lot of things without even realizing it, and yes, just being unusual, as you say, does not put you above, in a sense, any of the other organisms with whom we share this planet.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Impact, Doe, Done

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All our good works and good intentions can't solve our sin problem.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention.

  Adam Smith

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Liberty

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 2, bk. 4, ch. 2 (1776) See Adam Smith 1

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• Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Causes, Conscious

  Sam Harris (2012). “Free Will”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Most scripts are written to be green lit. They're not written to be acted. And a lot of writers with the greatest intention in the world don't write for actors. They don't understand the architecture of what an actor needs to get from point A to point B.

  Laura Linney

  Writing, Needs, Actors

  "Laura Linney Talks The Exorcism of Emily Rose". Interview with Julian Roman, www.movieweb.com. September 8, 2005.

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• It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it. It's tricky and definitely a requires striking a delicate balance.

  John Dyer Baizley

  Art, Balance, Albums

  "BARONESS' John Dyer Baizley Interview About His Artwork Process". Interview with Michael Weigman, www.metalinjection.net. July 10, 2014.

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• To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Mean, Crafts

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