Intention Quotes

Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny.

I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among a good number of them.

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.

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

My intention... isn't to create controversy.

I have been given permission to announce that I and others from All My Children have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought AMC, with the intention to move it online.

To make what fate intends for me my own intention

I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.

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.

If it were Christ's intention to save all men, how deplorably He has been disappointed!

Jump high and hard with intention and heart.

I try to be mindful in my daily life, trying to stay more present and have more intention. It keeps me calm, and I feel less whipped about by my emotions.

In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.

When you sketch a shoe but don't have the intention to do a proper shoe, it remains a curvy sketch with no detail. The shoe completely morphs to the body.

Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying.

I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone

Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?

By setting our motivation strongly in the morning when our mind is fresh and clear, we are much more likely to remember it during the day and act with that intention

I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.

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

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

I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them.

Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.

Our work is connected to much larger structures and systems that can be influenced and changed to align with God's intention to bring order and fruitfulness into the world.

For liberals, supposedly good intentions always trump results.

Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now.

The most powerful way to manifest is through subtle intention and choiceless awareness-inten d to let go and flow.

Optimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentions

Abundance comes from within it comes from thought , intention, attention and expectation

EVERYTHING that happens in the universe starts with an INTENTION

The highest intention comes from love and compassion ... when our intentions come from a place of love and compassion then we have the power of the universe.

If you can wiggle your toes with the mere flicker of an intention, why can't you reset your biological clock?

[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect

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

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.

Your intentions create your experiences.

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

I didn't try to cry my way out of Orlando. That was never my intention, or not what I did at all. And I understand everybody thought it was that way because of what was being put out there.

I think that sharpens the intention of a scene and clarifies a story's arc. Of course, I don't seek the questions until after I've written a scene - or maybe after I've daydreamed it.

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.

My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.

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.

I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working.

One thing I've learned: My intentions are clear in terms of quality.

Quality … has to do with intention.

I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

Judgment is affirmation with the intention to thereby affirm competently enough, and indeed aptly. That distinguishes judgments from mere guesses.

Make no mistake about the intention of these secularists: It is to discredit the voice of Christians so that America will tolerate only one view.