Intention Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• It wasn't the intention to do something important, or to even relate about social issues. The ground is so fertile in the justice world, dealing with the death penalty and the Innocence Project, for characters that have a moral ambiguity, which we were both attracted to. It's the idea that everybody has their reasons. Whatever their actions are, whether you agree with them or not, you can understand why they're feeling that way, in terms of racism or even the death penalty.

  Richard LaGravenese

  Character, Ideas, Issues

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• Unlimit yourself: Stand in power, walk with intention.

  Gloria Feldt

  Walks

  Gloria Feldt (2012). “No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power”, p.211, Seal Press

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• The most effective medium is yourself and the power you communicate by your intention and your story.

  Gloria Feldt

  Stories, Communicate, Mediums

  Gloria Feldt (2010). “No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power”, p.333, Seal Press

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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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• Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.

  Fred Astaire

  Dancing, Interpretation, Horizontal

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• If we want to be better than normal we must move from good intentions to what I call God intentions.

  Craig Groeschel

  Moving, Want, Normal

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• Honesty, good intentions and industry, you will have of course. Without these your career would soon end with the loss of your good name. But you must be ambitious to be a good deal more. Webb Hayes, his son, went on to found what had become the Union Carbide Corporation.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Honesty, Son, Loss

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• It's not our intention to be mean. That's just within us.

  Simon Cowell

  Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our intention is not to create cloned human beings, but rather to make lifesaving therapies for a wide range of human disease conditions, including diabetes, strokes, cancer, AIDS, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.

  Robert Lanza

  Cancer, Alzheimer's, Disease

  "Company behind the clones: Advanced Cell Technology" by Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. November 25, 2001.

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• America is the brokest country in history. We owe more money than anyone has ever owed anyone. And Obama and Reid say relax, that's no reason not to spend more - because the world hasn't yet concluded we have no intention of paying it back. When they do, the dollar will collapse.

  Mark Steyn

  Country, America, Relax

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• Watch over me, Father, so that everything I do may be with the intention of pleasing Jesus.

  Bernadette Soubirous

  Jesus, Father, Watches

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• I think our goal and intention is to make sure that, when you watch each episode, you don't have to make that choice, but also that you can have stand-alone episodes, where a story can have a beginning, middle and end.

  Alex Kurtzman

  Thinking, Goal, Choices

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• Then we started looking at story and what was making sense and what wasn't making sense, emotionally and thematically the intention that we had a year earlier when they were working on the script, did all that come across? It's all kind of generic things, but it's fascinating and it's weird - I haven't made that many films, but it's weird that every time you think you learn from your mistakes on your last film you have a slew of new mistakes and things that you learn.

  Bryan Burk

  Mistake, Thinking, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Country, Children, Museums

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• For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail - or we never even get to implement them - we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Motivation, Compassion, Effort

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• The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

  Thomas Sowell

  Good Intentions, Welfare, States

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• Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.

  Ken Blanchard

  Attitude, Matter, Good Intentions

  Twitter post from Jul 14, 2015

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• It's our intention. Our intention is everything. Nothing happens on this planet without it. Not one single thing has ever been accomplished without intention.

  Jim Carrey

  Planets, Accomplished, Happens

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• Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.

  John Irving

  Serious, Sexuality, Humans

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• The mindset of legislating for the betterment of society guarantees the growth of the beast. ... Politicians see government as a solution but the people see government as part of the problem. Beastly bureaucracy is born out of good intentions married to poor solutions. Only when politicians realize what constituents already know will the true problem even be addressed much less solved.

  R. Lee Wrights

  Government, People, Growth

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• To know the good from the bad, measure the heart. Actions reveal the true coloring of one's heart, not their intentions.

  Suzy Kassem

  Heart, Action, Knows

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• I did exactly what I wanted to do. It was always my intention to put a band together and be a band and not be about the solo pop guy. That was never me. All of the musicians that made me do what I wanted to do were bands. I didn't see it any other way.

  Chris Daughtry

  Guy, Together, Musician

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• What our economy needs is direct job creation by the government and mortgage-debt relief for stressed consumers. What it very much does not need is a transfer of billions of dollars to corporations that have no intention of hiring anyone except more lobbyists.

  Paul Krugman

  Jobs, Government, Stressed

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