Intention Quotes - Page 39

• Okay, a truly great song is a song that makes its own aesthetic intentions clear and then lives up to them and exceeds them in an interesting way. Alright?

  Stephin Merritt

  Song, Interesting, Okay

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Desire and loss of will tend to hurt the mind, which can lead to fear and compulsion. The result is that we suppress negative emotions, which we've been taught to be shameful of and hide, such as pain, anger, sorrow, and resentment. I take these complex and varied emotions surrounded by obscurity, absurdity, contradiction, and events out of our control such as tragedy, and project them in my work. So I understand that the images can generate fear, confusion, and anxiety in the audience, and if they're difficult to turn away from, it only means that my intention has been communicated.

  Hyon Gyon

  Hurt, Pain, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For three years now, probably more, there is a clear common interest developed between Israel and the leading Sunni moderate entities. The Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan. And the common interest is to block radical Muslim terror, to counter the Iranian hegemonic and nuclear intentions, and to join hands in a huge infrastructure project from water, energy, transportation, whatever, in the whole Middle East.

  Ehud Barak

  Block, Water, Energy

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I don't think eliminating the knowing-doing gap depends on the amount of knowledge around. It depends much more on people's attitudes and intentions - do they actually want to turn knowledge into action, or just go through the motions of acting as if they are busy or are accomplishing something.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Attitude, Thinking, Acting

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Some things I won't do for any amount of money. That's so demoralizing and goes against every principle that I hold. It's like, okay, some rich people can buy me because I'm a talented guy. They can buy talent. You can't buy it for yourself, but you can buy other people's talent to serve your purposes. And once an artist does that, he becomes like a plaything of the rich. You know, some of these wealthy collectors have paid lots of money for artwork that I already did, but I didn't do it with the intention of catering to them.

  Robert Crumb

  Artist, People, Guy

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• There are some terrific resources on how to find individual purpose but relative resources on how to discover purpose and apply to an organization. My challenge was to show organizations how they could unlock the purpose of their organizations and put it to good use for employees to apply to their own jobs. The net effect is to help individuals, teams and organizations to optimize performance by understanding how to use purpose for good intention.

  John Baldoni

  Team, Understanding, Challenges

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• I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect and make everybody happy. But I'm not concerned with politicians and what they think. And I'm not always going to succeed. I'll have missteps, but I hope that people will be patient with the show and us and know that our intentions are good.

  Lena Waithe

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  B. C. Forbes

  Opportunity, Men, Luck

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• I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.

  Jodie Foster

  Scene, Behinds, Seeing

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• Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.

  Barney Frank

  Party, Believe, Media

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• If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

  Noel Gallagher

  Mirrors, Honest, Music Business

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• I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions.

  Cindy Gallop

  People, Tolerance, Complaining

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• The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

  Helen Garner

  Art, Rain, Fall

  "Cosmo Cosmolino". Book by Helen Garner, p. 150, 1992.

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• I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

  Alberto Giacometti

  Color, Paint, Gray

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• My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

  Jim Goad

  Powerful, Hatred, Good Intentions

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• I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.

  Tim Gunn

  Hurt, Teaching, Easy

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• The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Political, Detours, Politics

  Newsweek, p. 23, January 23, 1978.

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• Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.

  Lauren Hutton

  Fog, Teeth, Noses

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• Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

  Aldous Huxley

  Good Intentions, Hell, Best Intentions

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Mistake, May, Action

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• Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Prayer, Exercise, Work Out

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• It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

  Kesha

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

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• There's a deep-freeze of sorts for all good intentions - a place that you store your plans to make changes in your life when you know you're not going to make them at all.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Good Intentions, Making Changes, Stores

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• I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  "Interview with Representative Dennis Kucinich". Interview With John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 30, 2011.

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• Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

  Dalai Lama

  Confusion, May, Kind

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