Intention Quotes

• I don't have any intention of resigning.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Intention
  • Resign

• My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Quality
  • Interest
  • Guitar

• It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Intention
  • Confess
  • Skull

• Nobody's intention is to ever have it fall onto the county...

  

  Ron Blair Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Country
  • Fall
  • Intention

• You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.

  

  William H. O'Connell
  • Men
  • Water
  • Holy

• When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: 'It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Giving

• 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.

  

  China Forbes
  • Present
  • Try
  • Calm

• England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile intention? We should sink to the level of a fifth rate Power, our Colonies would be stripped from us, our commerce would decline, famine and unemployment would stalk the land... I have yet to learn that the cause of peace can be served by rendering our country impotent.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • Country
  • History
  • Easy

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

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Marriage
  • Intention

• It is impossible that the intention of the entrepreneur who has borrowed in order to increase investment can become effective except in substitution for investment by other entrepreneurs which would have occurred otherwise at a faster rate than the public decide to increase their savings...

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Entrepreneur
  • Investment
  • Rate

• I have no intention of coaching Boca Juniors, and no-one from the club has approached me to do so.

  

  Gabriel Batistuta
  • Coaching
  • Intention
  • Boca Juniors

• Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Force
  • Knowing

• My original intention was to use it just for improvised, soundscape-y stuff, but I ended up falling in love with it. So I put it on a lot of the songs. It's not anything that I'm proficient on, but in the studio, if I spend a day working it, I can shimmy my way around.

  

  Chad VanGaalen
  • Songs
  • Put
  • Falling In Love

• A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as the human species have got to get used to the fact we're not going to be right most of the time, not even when our intentions are good. We've got to go naked and see what happens.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • People
  • Black
  • Humans

• The cypress boat is frequently a symbol of fluctuating intention.

  

  Arthur Waley
  • Boat
  • Intention
  • Symbol

• Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.

  

  Melissa Manchester
  • People
  • Writing
  • Originals

• We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Quality
  • Bottom
  • Disguise

• Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Life
  • Intention
  • Context

• They started out with the best intentions, but they didn't want to be known as a poor town.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Best
  • Poor
  • Town

• Goals are measurable. Goals are things you try to grab or achieve or GET. Intention is bigger in some indefinable but undeniable way. Intention is a calling forth. And it is done with clarity and sometimes even trepidation because you know that in the very setting of the intention, you will be called to become something more expanded than you are now.

  

  Christine Kane
  • Goals
  • Forth
  • Measurable

• The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Intention
  • German Reich
  • Austrian State

• My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Mind
  • Ideas
  • Feels

• I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.

  

  Sean Bean
  • Actors
  • Capable
  • Intention

• 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
  • World
  • Attention
  • Care

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