Intention Quotes - Page 31

• Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people. We are prone to make mistakes that cause confusion, inflict pain, and miscommunicate our intentions ... The only choice we have is to reconcile ourselves to our own flaws and the flaws of other people, or withdraw from the community.

  Christina Baldwin

  Forgiveness, Pain, Mistake

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• I got involved in fashion by accident. When I got to New York, my intention was to have enough money to eat and to stay and I don't have to leave. I just loved New York - the energy, the culture, the freedom.

  Elie Tahari

  Fashion, New York, Energy

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.

  Edwina Findley

  Sometimes, Realizing, Persons

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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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• The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may be, they are altogether unable to harm us until we begin to blame them and use them as excuses for our own unbelief.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Evil, Use, May

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• I hadn't traveled with the intention of learning about anything except myself. And the real point of all this travel was not what I had come to believe or disbelieve about the wider world, but what I had learned about myself.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Believe, World

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.503, Vintage

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• Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Good Intentions, Obedience, Substitutes

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• There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  World, Way, Middle

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• My major intention for coming to Hollywood - besides the fact that I was just enamored with acting from a very young age - was that I was tired of seeing wimpy Asian actors.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Tired, Age, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I definitely have a spiritual outlook. I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer, 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved. I'm not a religious guy, in fact I'm probably agnostic but I thought what this writer had to say was really powerful.

  Chris Pine

  Spiritual, Religious, Powerful

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Do not lose your temper with those who sin. Do not have a passion for noticing every sin in your neighbor and judging it, as we usually do. Everyone will give an answer for himself before God. Especially, do not look with evil intention on the sins of those older than you, with whom you have no business. But correct your own sins, your own heart.

  John of Kronstadt

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness. We [need] to transform our minds and actions for the sake of other people and for the future of the world.

  Pema Chodron

  Gratitude, People, Promise

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• Even the best intentions turn around one day... Nobody's right all the time.

  Stevie Nicks

  One Day, Turns, Best Intentions

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• No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Criticism, Should

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• The intention of each lesson is getting you to recognize what you're doing, kinesthetically. Once you're conscious of it, you then can choose whether to continue doing the same thing or not.

  F. Matthias Alexander

  Lessons, Conscious

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• For an actor, it's very important to get a clear idea of what a director wants, and their intention for what they want to get out of a scene and how they want to shoot it. Having that knowledge is really valuable, for an actor. It means you can deliver more.

  Clive Owen

  Mean, Ideas, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• A lot of the projects that I do, I like to be involved with earlier. I just feel that, certainly from an acting point of view, it's easier to do my job, if I'm included in what the intentions are, for why people are doing what they're doing, especially with a director.

  Clive Owen

  Jobs, Views, People

  Source: collider.com

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• No matter how many pleasures Satan offers you, his ultimate intention is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Priorities, Ruins, Matter

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2010). “Getting to No: How to Break a Stubborn Habit”, p.30, David C Cook

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• Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention.

  Paola Antonelli

  Demand, Elegance, Surplus

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• The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective.

  A. R. Rahman

  Spiritual, Giving, Perspective

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• It is true that all of the current presidential candidates once denied that they had any intention of running. But the fact that I am also a liar, doesn't make me a candidate.

  Pat Paulsen

  Running, Liars, Presidential

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• Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a dramaturge, call him an alchemist.

  Paul Gambaccini

  Alchemist, Guarantees, Evening

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• Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.

  Tom Petty

  Sky, Horizon, Ends

  Song: All The Wrong Reasons

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• If I offend anybody tonight, I apologize. That's not my intention. I'm not going to guess what your personal line of decency is; I cross my own from time to time - it's how I know I still have one.

  Daniel Tosh

  Tonight, Lines, Apologizing

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