Intention Quotes - Page 31

• We are just trying to do the best possible job we can. We're not perfect. All you can do is trust the positive intention behind it, and we're always going to work to, hopefully, get better and better.

  Ellen Page

  Jobs, Perfect, Get Better

  Source: www.slate.com

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• There's so many great things that come with being successful. The one thing that is weird is trying to figure out whose intentions are in the right place, and who is really on your team.

  Donald Faison

  Team, Successful, Trying

  Interview with Paul Eide, www.askmen.com. February 27, 2016.

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• That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.

  Russell Simmons

  Oscars

  "Russell Simmons Has Your Oscars Alternative". "All Things Considered" with Eric Westervelt, www.npr.org. February 28, 2016.

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• The difference lies in the intention behind wanting money. Your reasons for why you want to create more money is typically why you're ambitious to get it. You're either genuinely ambitious or selfishly hungry.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Lying, Differences, Ambitious

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• What distinguishes Shambhala is its intention of trying to create a society based upon certain principles. So, Shambhala's focus is not just on the individual, but on society as a whole.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Focus, Trying, Principles

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• A lot of people do their practice. They meditate on compassion. Then they yell at people afterwards. That is not quite working. One of the things I try to emphasize is contemplative meditation - bringing your thought and intention into meditation.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Compassion, Practice, People

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Compassion, People, Wish

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

  Dan Bejar

  Song, Writing, Work Ethic

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview With Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Donald Trump trying to do to the American voter what he did to the people that signed up for this course: He's making promises he has no intention of keeping.

  Mitt Romney

  People, Promise, Trying

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters advanced math concepts - algebra, geometry, statistics and probability.

  Anya Kamenetz

  Math, Effort, Statistics

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• I'm in awe of how grounded Ms. Tyson is and how her performances can be different but the same. She can switch up the delivery, but it's still with the right intention. Her words are effortless in terms of their meaning and how she inhabits them. She's been doing Trip to Bountiful for four months, and it still feels real. She's pretty amazing.

  Adepero Oduye

  Real, Months, Different

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• But if you get a kick out of "The Jerry Springer Show," you're going to love it! The idea of hearing these lyrics and profanities - like the chorus at the top of the show - the idea that we're going to hear it in Carnegie Hall is just genius. It's been written with real care! It's not some crappy little musical that somehow found its way off-Broadway with vulgar-intentions. This is really beautiful, operatic music. It has a place in Carnegie Hall.

  Max von Essen

  Beautiful, Real, Ideas

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

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• Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.

  Richard Hell

  Writing, Interesting, Consciousness

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I do need to loosen up a bit, and that usually does come with old age. That's the intention.

  Kevin Shields

  Age, Needs, Doe

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I'd have a drinking problem.

  Bradford Cox

  Drinking, Air, Self

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the store, you put it on and, "Oh, that's not cool. That's gangsta rap. That's white supremacist punk." But in a way, the content is removed from the intention of the people that made it. That's the commercial level of music.

  Eyvind Kang

  Rap, Gangsta, White

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• With a four-string, the middle range is less of an option. That kind of 5th that you play on those A and D strings isn't there. So a lot of traditional rock sounds, you can't play them. But to be honest, there was no particular intention when I started playing with four strings. It just worked out that way and it sounded cool.

  Bill Orcutt

  Play, Rocks, Four

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece function as a prologue, but I find the word "intention," confusing ("trust the art," as D.H. Lawrence said, "not the artist"). These speculations are perhaps better responded to by text and reader, rather than author.

  Laura Mullen

  Art, Book, Confusing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I didn't have any intention of playing music for a living or anything like that. I was just not doing well in my head or whatever you call it and drinking too much.

  Frank Fairfield

  Drinking, Playing Music, Too Much

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon.

  King Khan

  Song, Guitar, Singing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I didn't have any intention of releasing any of the tracks I made.

  Gold Panda

  Track, Made

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My intention with The Soup was to hopefully follow in the footsteps of past hosts, like Greg Kinnear. The pedigree of that show was really good and if it could just get me into some of those audition rooms I've always wanted to get into that I could not get into, then I would be very happy.

  Joel McHale

  Past, Would Be, Soup

  "Tribute talks to Spy Kids star Joel McHale". Interview with Alexandra Heilbron, www.tribute.ca. August 8, 2011.

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• I had no intention of providing any answers or solutions, because you'd only look a fool, but I did want to talk about what it's like to be in a state where you're wondering. And perhaps I was also receptive to the fact I was entering middle age and those thoughts come - to pretend that they don't come is just crazy.

  Peter Morgan

  Crazy, Age, Looks

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's a woman's right to know a man's intentions upfront. Because, once you get emotionally attached to a man and you sleep with him, it's too late.

  Steve Harvey

  Sleep, Men, Too Late

  "No sex for 90 days? Exclusive Steve Harvey interview!". Interview with Samantha Brett, blogs.smh.com.au. May 29, 2009.

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• I think the public needs to be reminded just how much inspiration and intention was given throughout the world to be bold, to send human beings to the moon in the '60s and the '70s. It's important now to bring together the nations that weren't able to do it then and help them do it. We need to move forward.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Inspiration, Moving, Thinking

  "Buzz Aldrin talks March Madness and Mars exploration". Interview with Brian Mastroianni, www.cbsnews.com. March 16, 2016.

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