Intention Quotes - Page 23

• Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people. We are prone to make mistakes that cause confusion, inflict pain, and miscommunicate our intentions ... The only choice we have is to reconcile ourselves to our own flaws and the flaws of other people, or withdraw from the community.

  Christina Baldwin

  Forgiveness, Pain, Mistake

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• I got involved in fashion by accident. When I got to New York, my intention was to have enough money to eat and to stay and I don't have to leave. I just loved New York - the energy, the culture, the freedom.

  Elie Tahari

  Fashion, New York, Energy

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.

  Edwina Findley

  Sometimes, Realizing, Persons

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• My interactions with musicians have been simply that: interactions with musicians. Issues of gender, or anything else beyond the music-making, have in my experience played no role in whether or not a musician has been able to articulate my intentions as a composer.

  Michael Hersch

  Issues, Able, Musician

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• The path between intention to watch a movie and the purchase of a ticket - I want to make it as short as possible. The holy grail is Amazon One Click. One tap and I own it.

  Gerry Lopez

  Holy Grail, Amazon, Watches

  Source: deadline.com

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• If we can use technology to shorten the path between intention and action, that excites me.

  Gerry Lopez

  Technology, Use, Path

  Source: deadline.com

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• It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying.

  Dan Harmon

  Defying, Mediums, Direct

  "EMMYS: 'Community's Dan Harmon". Interview with Diane Haithman, deadline.com. June 18, 2011.

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• The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may be, they are altogether unable to harm us until we begin to blame them and use them as excuses for our own unbelief.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Evil, Use, May

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• Terrorists like bin Laden are serious about mass murder - and all of us must take their declared intentions seriously. They seek to impose a heartless system of totalitarian control throughout the Middle East, and arm themselves with weapons of mass murder. . . . Their aim is to seize power in Iraq, and use it as a safe haven to launch attacks against America and the world.

  George W. Bush

  Safe Haven, Iraq, America

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 31 January 2006

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• Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

  Fidel Castro

  Ideas, Revolutionary, Deceived

  Fidel Castro (2007). “Fidel Castro Reader”, p.65, Ocean Press

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• With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.

  Alan Rickman

  Jobs, Real, Mind

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• Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Good Intentions, Obedience, Substitutes

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• There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  World, Way, Middle

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• The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

  Horace

  Passion, Men, Tyrants

  'Odes' bk. 3, no. 3, l. 1

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• When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.

  Pablo Picasso

  Action, Painting, Poet

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• My major intention for coming to Hollywood - besides the fact that I was just enamored with acting from a very young age - was that I was tired of seeing wimpy Asian actors.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Tired, Age, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My free will is a paradoxical partner of the power of intention.

  Wayne Dyer

  Free Will, Partners, Paradoxical

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “The Power of Intention”, p.15, Hay House, Inc

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• I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.

  Dolly Parton

  Bob, Want, Figures

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state is benevolent, governed by the loftiest intentions, adopting a defensive stance, not an actor in world affairs but only reacting to the crimes of others...If even the harshest of critics tacitly adopt these premises, then the ordinary person may ask, who am I to disagree?

  Noam Chomsky

  Ordinary, Doctrine, Inquiry

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• I hadn't traveled with the intention of learning about anything except myself. And the real point of all this travel was not what I had come to believe or disbelieve about the wider world, but what I had learned about myself.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Believe, World

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.503, Vintage

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• Clearly the path of mitzvot is a form of meditation. The intention to act impeccably requires complete dedication and unwavering attention. I was also impressed with LUzzato's insistence that mitzvot practice is joyful.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Dedication, Practice, Meditation

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• Many of you have asked why it's taken me so long to select a running mate. I have no intention of reaching into the political grab bag and grabbing any man to be my running mate. I'm going to reach in and grab a woman!

  Pat Paulsen

  Running, Taken, Men

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• As a writer I try to operate within a framework of Christian principles, and the words that are important to me are religious words: witness, pilgrimage, intention.

  William Zinsser

  Christian, Religious, Important

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• When I'm writing a book I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

  Italo Calvino

  Book, Writing, Trying

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• We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness. We [need] to transform our minds and actions for the sake of other people and for the future of the world.

  Pema Chodron

  Gratitude, People, Promise

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