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“The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.”

Reason Artist Passion Goal Equal Intention Good Work Tenacity Interruptions

Author:Odilon Redon

“The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.”

Consciousness Intention Misfortunes Good Intentions Solace

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.”

Knows Needs Artist Intention

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate... not following the thought stream.”

Mean Effort Silence Quiet Intention Following Technique Streams Keeping Quiet

Author:Mooji

“Hell is full of good intentions.”

Hell Intention Good Intentions

Author:Thomas Gray

“I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it.”

Important Importance Intention Size

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.”

Artist Creativity Creative Intention Reactions Chains Realization Subjective

Book:The complete works of Marcel Duchamp

Source: The complete works of Marcel Duchamp

“People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer.”

People Giving Film Asks Difficult Answers Dangerous Aim Intention

Book:The seventh seal: a film

Source: The seventh seal: a film

“Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.”

Sun Intention Evident

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“The contrast couldn't be clearer between the intentions and the hearts of those of us who care deeply about human rights and human liberty and those who kill. [on the terrorist bombings in London, July 7, 2005”

Humans Heart Care Liberty Rights Intention Human Rights London Terrorist Contrast Who Cares July Bombing

Author:George W. Bush

“Memory and intention and intuition are fused. The iron is always hot.”

Memories Hot Intention Intuition Iron

Author:Stephen Nachmanovitch

“Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.”

Firsts Sometimes First Time Intention Boring Shock Shocking Vacuous

Author:Roger Scruton

“Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot follow their intentions. I can tell at a glance what Fabritius is doing, but I am spending my life trying to find out what Rembrandt was up to.”

Trying I Can Past Artist Certain Intention Spending Boredom Glances Plague

Author:Philip Guston

“To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.”

World Body Given Understanding Performances Harmony Aim Intention

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make in life. Otherwise, why aren't we with the person we were with in seventh grade?”

People Way Persons Sometimes Choices Goal Negative Intention Grades Seventh Grade

Author:Kirstie Alley

“Formulate a specific game plan... the specific steps in making your intention come to life.”

Games Steps Plans Intention Planning Game Plan

Author:Robert G. Allen

“Focus on a specific intention... A goal is often fueled by fear... An intention is fueled by a sense of purpose.”

Purpose Goal Focus Intention

Author:Robert G. Allen

“Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they cannot be obliterated easily.”

Difficult Painting Depends Intention Speed Certainty

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up; it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.”

Want Trying Stories Forget Risk Projects Originals Intention Betrayal Betray Suggestions Beneficial

Author:Lars von Trier

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

“In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.”

Action Motivation Intention Motive Our Actions

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.”

Ifs Honest Mirrors Intention Smoke Music Business Brutally Honest Smoke And Mirrors

Author:Noel Gallagher

“A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.”

Bits Clothes Intention Drinking Alcohol Bars Limbs Alcoholics Explosions Good Intentions Pubs Funny Alcohol Doorstep Saloons

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.”

People Hard States Class Honest Conscience Intention Manage Bewitched

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions.”

People World Humans Action Natural This World Lows Resources Intention Complaining Tolerance Pool Good Intentions Natural Resources

Author:Cindy Gallop

“We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear. Let us take breath, and go on afresh.”

Ifs Heart Long Trust Goes On Breaths Intention Storm Fixed Steers Tempest Steadfast Stunned Fervent Never Fear

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called PROPAGANDA. Propaganda has done more to defeat the good intentions of races and nations than even open warfare. Propaganda is a method or medium used by organized peoples to convert others against their will. We of the Negro race are suffering more than any other race in the world from propaganda... propaganda to destroy our hopes, our ambitions and our confidence in self.”

World Self Done Used Suffering Nations Race Known Ambition Method Intention Defeat Self Confidence Mediums Propaganda Organized Warfare Good Intentions

Author:Marcus Garvey

“Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.”

Men Inspirational Heart God Religion Peace Intention Judged Almighty Thrones Metaphysics

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.”

Men Strong Justice Integrity Weak Intention Accidents Violent Unjust Glitter Being Strong Non Violent Weak Man Violent Man

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.”

Looks Past Forget Intention Looking Back Backwards Forget The Past

Author:Jomo Kenyatta

“My intention is to live more fully each moment with who - how - I actually am, not who I imagine I will be one day.”

Moments Imagine One Day Intention

Author:Sark

“The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.”

Men Way Ends Might Political Purpose Evil Effects Produce Judgment Shots Weight Forgiving Historical Intention Wide Passing Passings Remarks Pardon Good Intentions Texan Never Forgive

Book:Thomas H. Benton

Source: Thomas H. Benton

“We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.”

Men Heart Soul Sin Knowing Elements Majors Concern Intention Primaries Impulse Purity Ruling

Book:Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

Source: Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

“I have no intention of telling people what I have for breakfast.”

People Intention Breakfast Breakfast Being Important

Author:Princess Margaret

“And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.”

People Mean Kids Stuff Parent Audience Intention Grandparent Demographics

Author:Jerry Garcia

“The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation are downright bored, and they're as stuck in what they do as everyone else is.”

People Moments Religious Study Meditation Involved Intention Stuck Bored Guarantees Religious Studies

Author:Frederick Lenz

“On the pathway that leads to enlightenment, only your heart can tell you what is right.”

Heart Enlightenment Intention Pathways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence without perfect enlightenment with a smile.”

Mean Pain Joy Suffering Perfect Deals Existence Path Enlightenment Intention

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We could go to monasteries. I could show you people who are very wise and they have great willpower, but they're not happy. They lack balance. They take it all too seriously.”

People Shows Wise Balance Intention Willpower Not Happy Monasteries Very Wise

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In Buddhism balance is the most difficult thing, because it is overlooked.”

Difficult Buddhism Balance Intention Difficult Things Overlooked

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't think of us as separate beings. Imagine that we are one body and it's been split into millions. When we sit in the mediation hall - that is unity”

Thinking Body Millions Imagine Intention Unity Halls Imagine That Splits Mediation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You human beings think that yoga is in some way going to make everything you want to happen, work out. You are going to be able to avoid what you don't want. That is not yoga. That is desire and aversion.”

Thinking Way Want Humans Happens Able Desire Human Beings Yoga Intention Work Out Aversion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.”

Suffering Buddhism Yoga Intention Incarnation Postponement

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't create a plastic image of what it is to be spiritual and try to become it. You won't be capable of it and that will frustrate you. Even if you could do it, if it's not really what you're like, you'll be miserable.”

Ifs Trying Spiritual Like You Capable Intention Miserable Plastic

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn to accept the transitory nature of existence of the body and the mind; see eternity in everything, this world, the other worlds, and nirvana.”

World Mind Body Existence Accepting This World Eternity Intention Other Worlds Transitory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In order not to lose your resolve and purpose, you need to unite with others of like mind and work with an advanced Teacher who is in touch with, and can transfer, knowledge and power.”

Needs Mind Purpose Order Loses Teacher Intention Resolve Transfers Knowledge And Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your journey is to see how deeply you can interface your mind with infinity. That's the journey of a monk - to see.”

Mind Journey Intention Infinity Monk Interfaces

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Gaining energy is accomplished by meditating, by right actions, right thoughts, right deeds, by studying with a real teacher or by just studying the teachings, by creating happiness in your life, and by never giving up.”

Giving Real Action Energy Study Teacher Teaching Giving Up Creating Intention Deeds Accomplished Never Giving Up Meditating Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Determine where you are and where you wish to be. Then use all of your self-effort to make that happen, following the guiding principles of all the Buddhas and bohisattvas and seekers of the dharma, of enlightenment.”

Self Use Happens Wish Effort Principles Enlightenment Intention Determine Following Where You Are Seekers Dharma Guiding Principles

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My problem is not to reinforce or destroy any ideas anyone might have about me, how I do what I do, what my intentions are, the way that I do it. My only job as far as I can see is to do the music that I want to do. All those other things are completely out of my control.”

Way Want I Can Ideas Problem Might Jobs Intention

Author:El-P