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“We are just trying to do the best possible job we can. We're not perfect. All you can do is trust the positive intention behind it, and we're always going to work to, hopefully, get better and better.”

Trying Jobs Can Do Perfect Behinds Intention Hopefully Get Better Going To Work Do The Best Not Perfect

Author:Ellen Page

“There's so many great things that come with being successful. The one thing that is weird is trying to figure out whose intentions are in the right place, and who is really on your team.”

Trying Successful One Thing Team Figures Intention Great Things Being Successful Right Place

Author:Donald Faison

“That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.”

Intention Oscars

Author:Russell Simmons

“The difference lies in the intention behind wanting money. Your reasons for why you want to create more money is typically why you're ambitious to get it. You're either genuinely ambitious or selfishly hungry.”

Want Reason Lying Differences Behinds Intention Hungry Ambitious More Money

Author:Aeriel Miranda

“What distinguishes Shambhala is its intention of trying to create a society based upon certain principles. So, Shambhala's focus is not just on the individual, but on society as a whole.”

Trying Whole Certain Individual Principles Focus Intention Shambhala

Author:Sakyong Mipham

“A lot of people do their practice. They meditate on compassion. Then they yell at people afterwards. That is not quite working. One of the things I try to emphasize is contemplative meditation - bringing your thought and intention into meditation.”

People Trying Compassion Practice Meditation Intention Contemplative

Author:Sakyong Mipham

“What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy.”

People Energy Wish Compassion Intention

Author:Sakyong Mipham

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

Writing Kind Song Ethics Intention Sat Work Ethic

Author:Dan Bejar

“Donald Trump trying to do to the American voter what he did to the people that signed up for this course: He's making promises he has no intention of keeping.”

People Trying Courses Trump Promise Intention Voters American Voters

Author:Mitt Romney

“There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters advanced math concepts - algebra, geometry, statistics and probability.”

Common Effort Students Masters Standards Concepts Raises Intention Math Core Statistics Probability Geometry Algebra Common Core

Author:Anya Kamenetz

“I'm in awe of how grounded Ms. Tyson is and how her performances can be different but the same. She can switch up the delivery, but it's still with the right intention. Her words are effortless in terms of their meaning and how she inhabits them. She's been doing Trip to Bountiful for four months, and it still feels real. She's pretty amazing.”

Feels Stills Different Real Term Four Months Performances Intention Awe Grounded Delivery Effortless Tyson

Author:Adepero Oduye

“But if you get a kick out of "The Jerry Springer Show," you're going to love it! The idea of hearing these lyrics and profanities - like the chorus at the top of the show - the idea that we're going to hear it in Carnegie Hall is just genius. It's been written with real care! It's not some crappy little musical that somehow found its way off-Broadway with vulgar-intentions. This is really beautiful, operatic music. It has a place in Carnegie Hall.”

“Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.”

Writing States Interesting Consciousness Situation Intention States Of Consciousness

Author:Richard Hell

“I do need to loosen up a bit, and that usually does come with old age. That's the intention.”

Needs Doe Age Bits Intention Old Age

Author:Kevin Shields

“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.”

Ifs Self Problem Guy Air Intention Drinking Arrogance Righteousness Sober Drank Self Righteousness Drinking Problem

Author:Bradford Cox

“In a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the store, you put it on and, "Oh, that's not cool. That's gangsta rap. That's white supremacist punk." But in a way, the content is removed from the intention of the people that made it. That's the commercial level of music.”

People Way Made Matter White Levels Music Is No Matter What Intention Rap Stores Made It Punk Gangsta Gangsta Rap Recorded Music

Author:Eyvind Kang

“With a four-string, the middle range is less of an option. That kind of 5th that you play on those A and D strings isn't there. So a lot of traditional rock sounds, you can't play them. But to be honest, there was no particular intention when I started playing with four strings. It just worked out that way and it sounded cool.”

Way Kind Play Sound Four Middle Rocks Honest Particular Intention Traditional Being Honest Range Strings

Author:Bill Orcutt

“I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece function as a prologue, but I find the word "intention," confusing ("trust the art," as D.H. Lawrence said, "not the artist"). These speculations are perhaps better responded to by text and reader, rather than author.”

Art Said I Can Book Artist Deals Pieces Reader Function Intention Confusing Speculation Prologue

Author:Laura Mullen

“I didn't have any intention of playing music for a living or anything like that. I was just not doing well in my head or whatever you call it and drinking too much.”

Wells Too Much Intention Drinking Playing Music Drinking Too Much

Author:Frank Fairfield

“If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon.”

Ifs Song Singing Intention Guitar Acoustics Acoustic Guitar Recording Music

Author:King Khan

“I didn't have any intention of releasing any of the tracks I made.”

Made Intention Track

Author:Gold Panda

“My intention with The Soup was to hopefully follow in the footsteps of past hosts, like Greg Kinnear. The pedigree of that show was really good and if it could just get me into some of those audition rooms I've always wanted to get into that I could not get into, then I would be very happy.”

Ifs Shows Would Be Wanted Past Rooms Intention Hopefully Host Auditions Soup Very Happy Footsteps Pedigree

Author:Joel McHale

“I had no intention of providing any answers or solutions, because you'd only look a fool, but I did want to talk about what it's like to be in a state where you're wondering. And perhaps I was also receptive to the fact I was entering middle age and those thoughts come - to pretend that they don't come is just crazy.”

Want Looks States Facts Age Answers Wonder Crazy Middle Fool Solutions Intention Providing Entering Middle Ages Receptive

Author:Peter Morgan

“It's a woman's right to know a man's intentions upfront. Because, once you get emotionally attached to a man and you sleep with him, it's too late.”

Knows Men Sleep Late Intention Too Late

Author:Steve Harvey

“I think the public needs to be reminded just how much inspiration and intention was given throughout the world to be bold, to send human beings to the moon in the '60s and the '70s. It's important now to bring together the nations that weren't able to do it then and help them do it. We need to move forward.”

Thinking World Needs Humans Important Helping Inspiration Able Together Moving Given Nations Human Beings Moon Intention Moving Forward

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“When I went to school, my intention was to be a lawyer. When I attended university that was still the clear intention; I was going to be a lawyer. Why? Because it was as far as I could get from my father's antics and world. I thought that the world of the arts probably led people into the kind of behavior I had seen with him and that had resulted in a lot of hard times for my mother and me.”

People World Kind Art Stills Hard School Mother Father Clear Behavior Intention University Lawyer Hard Times Antics

Author:James Lipton

“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.”

May Action Turns Sin Mistake Intention Very Good

Author:E. Stanley Jones

“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.”

Mind Given Prayer Creation Exercise Series Intention Work Out Operations Faculty Links Makers Continuing Lenten

Author:E. Stanley Jones

“When it's a folk festival, there's more of an intention on the song and connecting with people.”

People Song Intention Folks Connecting Festivals

Author:Jenny O.

“You can't play an emotional condition; you have an emotional condition, and because you have that condition, you try to overcome it with active doings (intentions).”

Trying Play Acting Conditions Emotional Overcoming Intention Active Doings

Book:The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor

Source: The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor

“When we hunt or fish, we deliberately kill a defenseless being who wishes us no harm. This is a direct violation of the First Precept. It is absolutely forbidden to Buddhists. As to eating meat, we know that the only way we can obtain it is for an animal to be killed. Therefore, when we eat meat, it is our intent that an innocent animal should die to satisfy our addiction to flesh. And that underlying intention, no matter how well hidden behind a smokescreen of rationalizations will block the growth of compassion and create negative karma.”

“We judge ourselves mostly by our intentions, but others judge us mostly by our actions.”

Action Judging Intention Our Actions

Author:Eric Harvey

“Old habits eat good intentions for lunch. Change your habits so you can change your outcomes.”

Habit Intention Outcomes Lunch Good Intentions Old Habits

Author:Darren Hardy

“Beginning today, set an intention and a relentless focus on living your life as the greatest person you can be, in all situations. Demand that you demonstrate a strength of character in such a way that you find pride in who you are, and that others see you as a role model.”

Way Persons Character Today Situation Roles Focus Pride Demand Models Who You Are Intention Role Models Live Your Life Relentless Strength Of Character

Book:The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel

Source: The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel

“Those who have come to an impasse should examine their original intentions; those who have succeeded should note where they are heading.”

Should Originals Intention Notes Taoism Headings Impasse

Author:Zicheng Hong

“I had no intention to cover my tracks since I am not a politician and I do not represent anybody.”

Politician Intention Track

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but that's not the intention of the author, I think. At least not mine.”

People Thinking May Stories Might Lines Mines Intention Between The Lines

Author:Isabel Allende

“You're going to be waiting a long time before you start seeing money from it. Just really sit with yourself and think "Why do I want to be a singer?" like really think it out and if you realize that you really need to stick with then then be really focused and have good intentions on why you're doing it and it will work out.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Long Waiting Realizing Seeing Long Time Sticks Intention Work Out Focused Singers Good Intentions

Author:Jhene Aiko

“People get hired based off of a certain look or something like that and they have no intention of paying their dues or even respecting the business. It's not a good idea to do that.”

People Looks Ideas Certain Intention Dues Good Ideas

Author:CM Punk

“[As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting the movie in such a public way that it almost undermines the initial intention of going under the radar.”

Way Persons Actors Skins Intention Obligation Ironic Initials Promoting Radar

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“I do not get involved in the game to think that it is a future transition for me getting back into the ring. It was not my intention. I've stated many times that I did it for my son.”

Thinking Games Son Involved Intention Rings My Son Transition Get Involved

Author:Bill Goldberg

“Our "job," our intention as spiritual beings in a body, is to express our true nature - to fully know ourselves as expressions and individuations of the Divine.”

Knows Body Jobs Spiritual Divine Expression Intention True Nature Spiritual Beings Individuation

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“I don't know that God favors the person who has a greater reach than those who have a small reach. It's the intention. I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others.”

Knows Trying Persons Use Greater Benefits Resources Intention Favors

Author:Russell Simmons

“The goal is to be free and hopeful in the music. Because that's really the only intention you need. From there, every natural and powerful intention and feeling will, on its own, slide right out of you - out of your spirit.”

Needs Feelings Spirit Goal Natural Powerful Music Is Intention Hopeful Slides

Author:Alex Ebert

“As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.”

People Knows Decision Intention Selfish Awful Greedy Good Intentions

Author:Jayni Chase

“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.”

People Thinking Effects Jokes Intention Artistic Sophisticated

Author:Billy Corgan

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”

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Author:Michael Jordan

“My motto in life is 'aim true'. It came from my love of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. She inspired me to sport a gold arrow around my neck because it reminded me of her strength and that I can always hit my mark when I set intention, follow what makes my heart beat, and aim true. The arrow was a reminder that I can cut through any obstacles, that I have power, beauty, and the ability to choose love over fear every moment of my life.”

“I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.”

Thinking Trying Use Animal Environment Planets Benefits Resources Intention Helpful Hurtful

Author:Russell Simmons

“Show kindness and respect to everyone. Pure intentions make the biggest difference.”

Shows Differences Kindness Pure Intention

Author:Stacy Keibler

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