Intention Quotes
1516 quotes by 1109 authors
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A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and…
— Steven Pressfield
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Jerome was sliding and climbing on top of me and it felt like it had the night before, like a crushing weight. So do boys…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions
— Daniel Webster
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The idea of Dumbledore's corpse frightened Harry much less than the possibility that he might have misunderstood the living Dumbledore's intentions.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when…
— Haruki Murakami
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Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In…
— Dean Koontz
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The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your…
— Che Guevara
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For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, ï¬nds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention…
— Eric Jerome Dickey
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I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow creature's heart: but…
— Anne Bronte
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I can't be any more addicted to it than I already am,"Jamie said slowly, as though he'd rehearsed this, and then waiting for a cue…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him…
— Georgette Heyer
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So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
— Pablo Picasso
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Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling…
— Milan Kundera
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I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions. But intentions aren’t enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions…
— Jim Butcher
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I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.
— Steven Erikson
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I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. We will breathe into each…
— Luke Davies
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Nick! Wait!†– Kyrian ‘Wait, my gluteus maximus. Vampire was shy of a few quarts of blood if he thought Nick had any intention of…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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