Intention Quotes - Page 26

• Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.

  Ken Blanchard

  Attitude, Matter, Good Intentions

  Twitter post from Jul 14, 2015

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• It's our intention. Our intention is everything. Nothing happens on this planet without it. Not one single thing has ever been accomplished without intention.

  Jim Carrey

  Planets, Accomplished, Happens

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• No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

  Stephen Hawking

  Winning, Joy, Research

  "Stephen Hawking's £1.8m physics prize win proves time is money" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• He is thoughtful whose mind is directed by his will, whose mind fulfills his intentions, whose mind is under the control of his intention... It is not till a person has gained mastery over his mind, till he is above this activity, that he is a ruling power, a true person.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Thoughtful, Mind, Mastery

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• We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms.

  Terence McKenna

  Looks, Attention, World

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• The mindset of legislating for the betterment of society guarantees the growth of the beast. ... Politicians see government as a solution but the people see government as part of the problem. Beastly bureaucracy is born out of good intentions married to poor solutions. Only when politicians realize what constituents already know will the true problem even be addressed much less solved.

  R. Lee Wrights

  Government, People, Growth

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• The plants are the pipeline into the Gaian intention. It's just not a coincidence that these plants carry this immense spiritual message. They are the pipeline of Gaian intentionality.

  Terence McKenna

  Spiritual, Pipeline, Messages

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• To know the good from the bad, measure the heart. Actions reveal the true coloring of one's heart, not their intentions.

  Suzy Kassem

  Heart, Action, Knows

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• If I did only what I wanted to do, I would not be obedient to the Creator. Sometimes He wants us to do certain things that we may not feel like doing. When it comes to what God asks of us, we need more than good intentions we need to follow through fully.

  John Wooden

  Needs, May, Want

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• We should never let ambition cause us to sacrifice our integrity or diminish our efforts in other areas. However, we need to remember that we never reach a serious goal unless we have the intention of doing so.

  John Wooden

  Integrity, Ambition, Sacrifice

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.94, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Trans people deserve something vital. They deserve your respect... If you want to call me names, make jokes, doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it. But for the thousands of kids out there who are coming to terms with being true to who they are, they shouldn't have to take it.

  Bruce Jenner

  Kids, Reality, Names

  Caitlyn Jenner's ESPYs Speech, www.businessinsider.com. July 16, 2015.

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• I did exactly what I wanted to do. It was always my intention to put a band together and be a band and not be about the solo pop guy. That was never me. All of the musicians that made me do what I wanted to do were bands. I didn't see it any other way.

  Chris Daughtry

  Guy, Together, Musician

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• What our economy needs is direct job creation by the government and mortgage-debt relief for stressed consumers. What it very much does not need is a transfer of billions of dollars to corporations that have no intention of hiring anyone except more lobbyists.

  Paul Krugman

  Jobs, Government, Stressed

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• An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions.

  Michael Josephson

  Action, Good Intentions

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• Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.

  Cesare Beccaria

  Law, Weapons, Crime

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• Sometimes you just have to let people escape with their good intentions intact.

  Claudio Sanchez

  People, Good Intentions, Sometimes

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• I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction cinema terms and I think I tried to apply those ideas to documentaries and not vice versa.

  John Hyams

  Opportunity, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• Often, people ask if it's different doing live-action and voice-over, but the only thing that's different, really, is that we're in a booth and there's no camera on me. But, my intention, as an actor, is exactly the same.

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  Voice, People, Cameras

  Source: collider.com

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• My only intention is to just have a little bit more success so that my career is easier and I don't have to work so hard just to get a job.

  Madeline Zima

  Jobs, Careers, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• You're not doing the scene exactly the way it is in the book [The Hunger Games], but the intention of the scene is there.

  Nina Jacobson

  Book, Games, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

  Marcel Proust

  Men, Asking

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• Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.

  Fred Astaire

  Dancing, Interpretation, Horizontal

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• The biblical passage which says of Abraham and the three visiting angels: "And He stood over them under the tree and they did eat" is interpreted by Rabbi Zusya to the effect that man stands above the angels, because he knows something unknown to them, namely, that eating may be hallowed by the eater's intention.... Any natural act, if hallowed, leads to God, and nature needs man for what no angel can perform on it, namely, its hallowing.

  Martin Buber

  Angel, Biblical, Men

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• I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.

  Sally Phillips

  Start The Day

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• Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.

  John Irving

  Serious, Sexuality, Humans

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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