Intention Quotes · Page 15

Exactness of intention produces elegance of style.

— Nathan Milstein

It. Was. Never. My. Intention. But I enjoy being insane.

— Oliver

A parent's best intentions are no substitute for attention.

— Wes Fesler

Begin Practicing the Intention to be Authentic & Peaceful with Everyone

— Wayne Dyer

My intention... isn't to create controversy.

— Brett Favre

“Intention creates a way for your mind to walk on to go to some unknown destination.”

— Debasish Mridha

I never have a thematic intention at the outset.

— Stephen King

So actions themselves are not good and not bad; only the intention is important.

— Stephen Mitchell

The truth doesn't lie. It's up in your face. It's in your conscience. It challenges your very being with the intention of…

— Monica Johnson

“Never let the state of waiting be in your mind. Just do something else and do it by intention.”

— Toba Beta

Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God.

— Maimonides

I'm someone very comfortable airing out the stories of my own life. Some people call it narcissism, but for me, the intention…

— Leandra Medine

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.

— Peter Drucker

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Majority of excuses are deliberate attempts to keep success far away. Eventually, the success goes away because that is the command "excuses"…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The worker faithful to the well has neither the intention, or time, to violate the name and the service of others.

— Chico Xavier

As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world,…

— Anonymous

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in…

— Emmanuel Levinas

For an actor, it's very important to get a clear idea of what a director wants, and their intention for what they…

— Clive Owen

I came in with the intention of serving as long as it made sense for me to do so. The election was…

— Mary Schapiro

My intention when I make a film is very clear. I make it for a certain kind of people who have average…

— Priyadarshan

For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not…

— Robert Fulghum

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

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

I see exercise taking this perverted detour. The original intention of exercise was to heal and maintain health. Now I see it…

— Bryan Kest

At the beginning of the struggle the holy commandments of God must be fulfilled with a certain forcefulness of will (cf. Mt.…

— Diadochos of Photiki

... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was…

— Anna Julia Cooper

“Life is very tricky and we must deal with it as it is. If we do not first master it ourselves we…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

I studied physics at Princeton when I was a college student, and my initial intention was to major in it but to…

— Jon Spaihts

I begin with understanding the intentions of the story. That helps me to zero in. Then I gather research for each individual…

— Ruth E. Carter

“When a man gives you a rose what you see may not be what he intends. You may think he sees you…

— Patrick Rothfuss

In the performance of an illocutionary act in the literal utterance of a sentence, the speaker intends to produce a certain effect…

— John Searle

He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences.

— Paulo Coelho

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

— Napoleon Hill

Once you know your deepest wish you can base your life on intention rather than craving

— Gil Fronsdal

The gifts we are given in life require the best of us, not merely our best intentions.

— Les Brown

Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.

— Anonymous

Men with good intentions make promises. Men with good character keep them.

— Ronald Oliver

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

— Boy George

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

— Michael Crichton