Intention Quotes

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I don't think I've ever gone on stage to be an asshole. I know one thing, from the past, and that's that my intentions always… — Ryan Adams
Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess… — Baltasar Gracian
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. — James Russell Lowell
Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions. — Emil Ludwig
The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist… — Odilon Redon
The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all. — Susan Sontag
Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate... not following the thought stream... — Mooji
Hell is full of good intentions. — Thomas Gray
I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it. — Robert Henri
In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions. — Marcel Duchamp
People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive… — Ingmar Bergman
Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The contrast couldn't be clearer between the intentions and the hearts of those of us who care deeply about human rights and human liberty and… — George W. Bush
Memory and intention and intuition are fused. The iron is always hot. — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated. — Roger Scruton
Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot… — Philip Guston
To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make in life. Otherwise, why aren't… — Kirstie Alley
Formulate a specific game plan... the specific steps in making your intention come to life. — Robert G. Allen

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