The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it. — Abdullah ibn Mubarak Copy Share Image
But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions. — Joey Skaggs Copy Share Image
Even a moderniser like Alexander II - who emancipated the serfs in 1861 - had no intention of devolving real power. — Saul David Copy Share Image
I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be… — Paul O'Neill Copy Share Image
I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on… — Will Packer Copy Share Image
In football I think if you don't have the intention to touch the ball and you have your arms in a natural… — Ander Herrera Copy Share Image
The world is awaiting your gift - all you have to do is show up with the right intention! — Lewis Howes Copy Share Image
I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a… — Jean-Marc Vallee Copy Share Image
I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I had the Forrest Gump' DVD and started watching. While watching it, I had no intention of writing it. When I started… — Atul Kulkarni Copy Share Image
I don't think eliminating the knowing-doing gap depends on the amount of knowledge around. It depends much more on people's attitudes and… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
I'm in awe of how grounded Ms. Tyson is and how her performances can be different but the same. She can switch… — Adepero Oduye Copy Share Image
There's something really wrong with using Botox: it stops you making facial expressions - people are so interested in how they appear… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
When I moved to L.A., I had no intention of really pursuing acting. I wanted to focus on stand-up. It's crazy to… — Nico Santos Copy Share Image
Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
The biblical passage which says of Abraham and the three visiting angels: "And He stood over them under the tree and they… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
I never had any intention nor interest in being an artist, but when I made work I realized that this was my… — Paul Rusconi Copy Share Image
If your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing the work, your triad of intentions - freedom, growth and… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
If the first inward thought is not warded off, it will generate a desire, then the desire will generate a wish, and… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
The dominant feature of the later legislation has been this steady reduction of the status of the native, and, though the intention… — Paul Hasluck Copy Share Image
First, the skill of storytelling helps to galvanize your team. Second, the discipline of storytelling requires leaders to be clear about their… — Gary A. Klein Copy Share Image
Saying "Ameen" is permissible after reciting the Surah of al-Hamd in the Salat (but it's still not part of the Salat) especially… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Intention appears to be something akin to a tuning fork, causing the tuning forks of other things in the universe to resonate… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
When I make a film about a woman, it is possible that my feminist politics surfaces somewhere but it is not with… — Aparna Sen Copy Share Image
You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is… — Edwina Findley Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to break up teams at local grassroots clubs - but to make sure every kid gets an… — Robbie Savage Copy Share Image
I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Lets take the time to breathe. I have no intention… — Pauline Marois Copy Share Image
There was this saying in GCHQ that, if you didn't leave after five years, you stay there for life. It was always… — Katharine Gun Copy Share Image
“Love is an act of will, both an intention and an action. “Let us not love with words or tongue but with… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
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