Intention Quotes - Page 30

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

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, People

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.103, Moody Publishers

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• Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the neglects of meditation and recessions from that duty; according as we neglect meditation, so are our prayers imperfect, - meditation being the soul of prayer and the intention of our spirit.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Prayer, Meditation, Soul

  Jeremy Taylor, George Rust (1851). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor...: With an Essay, Biographical and Critical”, p.73

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• Nothing in Chomsky's account acknowledges the difference between intending to kill a child, because of the effect you hope to produce on its parents (we call this “terrorism”), and inadvertently killing a child in an attempt to capture or kill an avowed child murderer (we call this “collateral damage”). In both cases a child has died, and in both cases it is a tragedy. But the ethical status of the perpetrators, be they individuals or states, could not be more distinct For Chomsky, intentions do not seem to matter. Body count is all.

  Sam Harris

  Children, Differences, Parent

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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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• As long as your intention is pure, and you know what you're in it for, then you're alright. And I'm in it because I enjoy it. I take it seriously... real seriously. I mean I could sit and talk all day about the music.

  Trey Anastasio

  Real, Mean, Long

  "Bittersweet Motel", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intention, real or pretended.

  Daniel Webster

  Strong, Real, Gun

  Daniel Webster (1854). “The speeches of Daniel Webster and his master-pieces”, p.282

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• No matter what I write or speak about, it always has some connection to how our spiritual understanding impacts the world we live in. Whether I'm writing or teaching about nutrition, pilates, green living or meditation, all topics simmer down to self thought and intention.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Teaching, Writing

  Interview with Amber Zuckswert, epicself.com.

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• It's like in politics: You can have great intentions for the world, but if you're not a good speaker and if you're not the sort of person that people can intimately link with, then it makes it very easy to say, "Well, they're not a nice person."

  Tom Felton

  Nice, People, World

  "Tom Felton’s Television Villain". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2014.

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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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• Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.

  Sean Penn

  Thinking, Medicine, Magic

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• We must, therefore, coolly and objectively adopt the standpoint that it can certainly not be the intention of Heaven to give one people fifty times as much land and soil in this world as another.

  Adolf Hitler

  Land, People, Giving

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You always go in with the intention of playing your best and knowing the material you're auditioning.

  Tony Palermo

  Knowing, Materials

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• We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Failing

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• There are good intentions behind many peoples conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified skepticism about the crap the USDA allows manufacturers to put in our food. But its hard to ignore the often sanctimonious nature of what some nutritionists view as an extremist way of eating.

  Julie Klausner

  Animal, Views, Way

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• Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don't make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author's mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, 'Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?'. Monet would be ripping his hair out.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Stupid, Book, Mean

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• Far too many people make promises they can never keep. They may have the best intentions in the world to keep their promise-but if they have not made a plan to keep it, they will not be able to do it.

  Zig Ziglar

  People, Promise, World

  Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar (2012). “Born to Win: Find Your Success Code”, p.138, AudioInk

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• Enter any moment devoid of agenda, with an absence of posturing, and with your only intention being to send love to everyone you meet or even think of...
  Happiness, miracles and inner peace will follow.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Miracle, Inner Peace

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 30, 2014

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• Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.

  David A. Stewart

  People, World, Western

  "This much I know: Dave Stewart". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2012.

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• The more you’re writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it’s at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

  Lou Doillon

  Writing, People, Scales

  "Lou Doillon? At 30, With Her First CD, She Won a French Grammy. Now Her CD Is Here. Lucky Us" by Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2013.

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• Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant. Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing.

  Ann Leckie

  Mean, Choices, Wish

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• The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection. Having got the plants, the great thing is to use them with careful selection and definite intention.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Garden, Numbers, Doe

  Gertrude Jekyll (1964). “On Gardening”

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• My interactions with musicians have been simply that: interactions with musicians. Issues of gender, or anything else beyond the music-making, have in my experience played no role in whether or not a musician has been able to articulate my intentions as a composer.

  Michael Hersch

  Issues, Able, Musician

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• The path between intention to watch a movie and the purchase of a ticket - I want to make it as short as possible. The holy grail is Amazon One Click. One tap and I own it.

  Gerry Lopez

  Holy Grail, Amazon, Watches

  Source: deadline.com

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• If we can use technology to shorten the path between intention and action, that excites me.

  Gerry Lopez

  Technology, Use, Path

  Source: deadline.com

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