Intention Quotes - Page 18

• True wit has a grave intention.

  Mason Cooley

  Graves, Wit

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• Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention.

  Mason Cooley

  Ambition, Drifting

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• My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Desire, Way

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• You have to be a mindful eater. There has to be intention in what you do in your life if youre going to be happy and authentic. Food isnt supposed to be entertainment in the way that your kids, your work, and your relationship are.

  Jorge Cruise

  Kids, Entertainment, Way

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• I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Political, Becoming, Film

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• A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Men, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.

  Iain Banks

  Devil, Details, Good Intentions

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• If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, People, May

  "Williams' Case". 1797.

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• An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention or effect because "it leaves everything to the imagination." The consumer has to invent his own images, and it is felt, I do not know with what justification, that there is no harm in this.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Imagination, Erotic

  Herbert Read (2005). “To Hell With Culture”, p.152, Routledge

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• An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Effort, Virtue, Pleasing God

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• It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.

  R. K. Milholland

  Over You, Matter

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• Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ambition, Solitude, Mind

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• Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than most people, history has been that.... This sense of openness, of possibility and autonomy, has been a national asset as precious as the topsoil of the Middle West. But like topsoil, it is subject to erosion; it requires tending. And it is not bad for Americans to come to terms with the fact that for them too, history is a story of inertia and the unforeseen.

  George Will

  Believe, Erosion, People

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• This is the process of Self realization about which Eastern mystics have written. It is the process of salvation to which much Western theology has devoted itself. This is a day-to-day, hour-to-hour, moment-to-moment act of supreme consciousness. It is a choosing and a re-choosing every instant. It is ongoing creation. Conscious creation. Creation with a purpose. It is using the tools of creation we have discussed, and using them with awareness and sublime intention.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Self

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.112, Penguin

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• Emotions reflect intentions. Therefore, awareness of emotions leads to awareness of intentions.

  Gary Zukav

  Emotion, Awareness

  Gary Zukav (2014). “The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention.

  Bob Costas

  People, Want

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• The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous alternation of self-creation and self-destruction. If it is only instinct, then it is childlike, childish, or silly; if it is only intention, it becomes affectation.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Silly, Self, Irony

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• The naive which is simultaneously beautiful, poetic, and idealistic, must be both intention and instinct. The essence of intention, in this sense, is freedom. Consciousness is far from intention. There is a certain enamoured contemplation of one's own naturalness or silliness which itself is unspeakably silly. Intention does not necessarily require a profound calculation or plan.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Beautiful, Silly, Essence

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• Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.

  Fernand Leger

  Men, Order, Creation

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• Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Light, Doubt, Secret

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Poems New and Collected”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A very good career choice would be to gravitate toward those activities and to embrace those desires that harmonize with your core intentions, which are freedom and growth - and joy. Make a 'career' of living a happy life rather than trying to find work that will produce enough income that you can do things with your money that will then make you happy. When feeling happy is of paramount importance to you - and what you do 'for a living' makes you happy - you have found the best of all combinations.

  Esther Hicks

  Happy Life, Careers, Choices

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2010). “Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition”, p.262, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Take 15 minutes daily, thinking of pleasant scenarios regarding your body, with the sole intent of enjoying your body and appreciating its strength and stamina and flexibility and beauty. When you visualize for the joy of visualizing rather than with the intention of correcting some deficiency, your thoughts are more pure and, therefore, more powerful. When you visualize to overcome something that is wrong, your thoughts are diluted with the "lackful" side of the equation. In time, your physical condition will acquiesce to your dominant thoughts.

  Esther Hicks

  Powerful, Thinking, Appreciate

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• We must remember when we speak of the "negativism" of the toddler that this is also the child who is intoxicated with the discoveries of the second year, a joyful child who is firmly bound to his parents and his new-found world through ties of love. The so-called negativism is one of the aspects of this development, but under ordinary circumstances it does not become anarchy. It's a kind of declaration of independence, but there is no intention to unseat the government.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Government, Discovery

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• I don't give a damn if I go to hell. I love you Satan. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Love You, Giving, Good Intentions

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• The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention of acquiring citizenship, and bringing with them and retaining habits and customs repugnant to our civilization.

  Grover Cleveland

  Law, Civilization, Class

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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