Intention Quotes (135 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Joni Mitchell
„My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.“
― Joni Mitchell ―
Picture of quotation author Tom Stoppard
„I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection.“
― Tom Stoppard ―
Picture of quotation author Hermann Eilts
„My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States since World War II and out of diplomacy, it was something that was very much talked about in the family. So when I went to college, it was always my intention to try to get into the Foreign Service.“
― Hermann Eilts ―
Picture of quotation author Patch Adams
„When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn't try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don't try to be more loving partners. We make the intention, and we act on it.“
― Patch Adams ―
Picture of quotation author Tim Gunn
„I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.“
― Tim Gunn ―
Picture of quotation author Pauline Marois
„I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Let's take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted.“
― Pauline Marois ―
Picture of quotation author Otto von Bismarck
„When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.“
Picture of quotation author Bill Bruford
„Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.“
― Bill Bruford ―
Picture of quotation author Tilman J. Fertitta
„I buy things that are good properties that I'm going to have forever. I just don't have any intention to sell anything. I believe you acquire good assets and you keep them and operate them.“
Picture of quotation author Damian Lewis
„I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.“
― Damian Lewis ―
Picture of quotation author Jon Secada
„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.“
― Jon Secada ―
Picture of quotation author Richard J. Codey
„I have no intention of being a potted plant, and just getting watered every so often.“
Picture of quotation author A. R. Rahman
„The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective.“
― A. R. Rahman ―
Picture of quotation author Wayne Dyer
„Our intention creates our reality.“
― Wayne Dyer ―
Picture of quotation author Ansel Adams
„It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.“
― Ansel Adams ―
Picture of quotation author Maurice Ravel
„My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.“
― Maurice Ravel ―
Picture of quotation author Johnny Galecki
„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.“
― Johnny Galecki ―
Picture of quotation author Susanna Thompson
„I always knew I wanted to be an actor. I was talented in college but not the most talented. But I knew I wanted to do it, and that intention got me there and kept me there.“
Picture of quotation author Moshe Sharett
„I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them.“
― Moshe Sharett ―
Picture of quotation author Keanu Reeves
„Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.“
― Keanu Reeves ―

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