Words matter. These are the best Intention Quotes from famous people such as Wayne Dyer, Norman Schwarzkopf, Robert Smith, Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Babar Azam, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Our intention creates our reality.
If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.
I had every intention of ‘Bloodflowers’ being the last Cure record. I thought it would be fantastic to finish with the best thing we’d ever done, but I wasn’t sure we could pull it off.
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
I go out in the middle with a positive frame of mind and the intention of playing out the entire overs and making full use of the available opportunities.
The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.
It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
It was never my intention to hurt people’s feelings.
On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.
I’ve put out a lot of stuff that just confused and alienated people: a huge chunk of songs that were verbal and musical challenges to myself, thoughts I was keeping myself busy with, nothing I had any intention of anybody grasping onto.
Your intention going in is to do the best you can. You go in and do your work, day to day, the best you can. But it’s entirely up to the director and the editor and the producers and the studio how it turns out.
My intention is to make music that you can enjoy at all times.
It’s understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society – and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer’s life changed mine.
Of course, we create a lot of heroes. But the real intention of that is to make the player feel like a hero in all of our games.
With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.
I love crying. I pick movies to go see with the intention of crying.
The intention behind the high difficulty of the games I direct is to evoke a feeling of joy and accomplishment in the player when they overcome these challenges.
When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn’t have to follow ‘Watchmen’ and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I’m not a particularly dark individual.
A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it – you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from danger, cuts somebody out of a car.
I am living with my limitations and have no intention of becoming a writer.
Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, ‘How are you, you old scoundrel!’ clearly I don’t really mean he’s a scoundrel.
It wasn’t my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier – you’re not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.
My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I’ve matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it’s someone who’s not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who’s going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
Comedy is similar to hockey… in only one way. You get a lot of credit for assists. So I try to serve whatever the intention is, be it the joke or the story or the scene or the moment or the kiss, even if it’s not my joke or moment.
My job will be to transmit – using my experience, my knowledge – with the intention of making the player more professional. I want to be a ‘life-coach’ who helps them to think, to make decisions, to manage their emotions with intelligence in difficult situations.
Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
I have an intention to live each moment fully.
According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave.
For me, I never really wanted to be in a ‘Sissy Spacek’ vehicle. That was not my intention. I got to be the ‘Everygirl.’
My whole intention at ‘WrestleMania XIV’ was to drop the belt to Steve, but I was going to make everybody sweat it out and make them think I wasn’t. Obviously, I got that accomplished. That’s extremely unprofessional, but that’s exactly who I was and what I was doing.
I have no intention to make a name for myself and to separate my identity from my brother’s name. I am proud to be identified as Shahid’s brother. There is no shame in it.
I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.
I started doing little amateur nights at the comedy club that was right next to the restaurant that I waitressed in when I was in university. I was probably 22 years old. I didn’t do it with any intention of making a career out of it; I had just always valued comedy.
The most important thing for me in an action sequence is, you understand the characters’ intention and the challenges the characters are going to have to face: what the character story is within the action sequence.
I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn’t intervened, I’d still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.
I don’t have any control over what actually happens except for that I have full control over my will for myself, my intention, and why I’m there. That’s all that matters.
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.
It is with enormous regret that I have decided to leave Wish You Were Here?’ after two very happy years as its presenter. It was always my intention to do two years on this wonderful program and now it is time for me to move on to other things.
He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn’t afford it, so he started dealing to go to college – good intention.
I spoke to Mali and they understand; I’ve never lived there and I never said I was going there, my intention was always to play with Spain.
My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Technology is only an enabler, which can help achieve the intention of the person who is using it.
If your intention is pure, an audience will recognise it and connect with you.
No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There’s only one way to get a government – and a nation – to stop drifting to low performance. That’s to wake up and insist on higher standards.
I think comedy and horror are very similar in that there’s a very direct intention. So you’re trying to be funny, or you’re trying to be creepy, and that literalness – I take to that.
You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band’s development with a live record… a sort of live thing that would be done for three or four records, and that was the intention with this particular package.
Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.
I grew up surrounded by these strong, brilliant women who showed me what it meant to show up in the world with purpose and intention.
Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.
When my three co-founders and I started Warby Parker in 2010, our primary intention was to sell good-looking, affordable eyewear online.
When I was in seventh grade, I was a scrawny boy with no muscles, so I went out for wrestling. My intention was to develop secret wrestling skills so that if I were jumped by a bully, I’d shout, ‘Ha!’ and he’d be on the ground in a headlock.
