Non Intention Quotes

#1. To my thinking, offence has no possible place in genuine friendship. The one pained always forestalls offence by the realization of non-intention to wound on the part of the other.

Florence L. Barclay

#2. My work became an exploration of non-intention.

John Cage

#3. I'm in favor of approaching both the night and the day with intention.

Robert Moss

#4. The whole intention of empirical economics is to force theory down to Earth.

George Akerlof

#5. Part-time effort means part-tim results.

Tony Curl

#6. Check your heart and make sure your intention steers you in the right direction.

Norhafsah Hamid

#7. Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.

Gao Xingjian

#8. I know some gods. Better than I want to. Not one of them gives a shit about your heart

Matthew Woodring Stover

#9. Because of the a priori element in intention, good intentions are so tempting - compared with a successive unfolding in time - and have so often in them some narcotic which develops an inner gaze instead of a resilience that begets energy.

Soren Kierkegaard

#10. Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you.

Alan Cohen

#11. Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision.

George Saunders

#12. It's not my intention to let go of you," I mumbled. "Not ever.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. To see you cry wasn't my intention. just let me make it OK, just give me one more chance to say.

Darren Mew

#14. Only good intentions may not always translate into good results.

Girdhar Joshi

#15. But as far as trusting the general run of men, there was no need, since she had no intention of ever expecting anything from one of them again.

Larry McMurtry

#16. If a man be the enemy of another from mistake and prejudice, as in the case of religious opinions, and sometimes in politics, that man is different to an enemy at heart with a criminal intention; and it is incumbent upon as, and it contributes also to our own tranquillity, that we

Thomas Paine

#17. Your ability to form a strong intention, to concentrate, and to get and stay focused while feeling detached from concerns of daily life - relaxed, open-minded, and emotionally energized - are essential.

Cynthia Sue Larson

#18. I love revising things, because you see how you can get the language to get closer to intention. You know there are three ways to say X thing, but one will say it better than the other two. And in saying it better, it gets you closer to something.

Claudia Rankine

#19. That which is produced with intention has passed over from non-existence to existence.

Maimonides

#20. Mainfest your fate on a daily basis though intention in the non-physical world and action in the physical world.

Russell Eric Dobda

#21. There is an inner working of intelligence behind the movement of energy in the world. This natural or organic intelligence is conscious and sure in its plan and method, not by choice or intention but intuitively and spontaneously, as a movement of pure beauty and harmony.

David Frawley

#22. It's not unlike a marriage, the partnership. All the effort and good intentions in the world can't make things right if you choose poorly in the first place.

Cecilia Grant

#23. You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.

Ian McEwan

#24. In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us.

Deepak Chopra

#25. For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

James Russell Lowell

#26. Ive loved this job. It is my intention to stay as the Mayor

Len Brown

#27. Those who intend to destroy me, underestimate my ability to regenerate.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

#28. Our thoughts create our reality-not instantly, necessarily, as in "Poof! There it is" - but eventually. Where we put our focus - our inner and outer vision - is the direction we tend to go. That's our desire, our intention ...

Peter McWilliams

#29. We make a living by what we give; and live a life by what we have yet to give.

George Alexiou

#30. 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.

Sidney Altman

#31. It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.

Orhan Pamuk

#32. People get confused when they see my shows, but that isn't the intention. My intention is to destabilize the act of seeing.

Richard Phillips

#33. In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#34. What's important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision that the commission made up. It's up to you to make your life. Take what you have and stack it up like a tower of teetering blocks. Build your dream around that.

Cheryl Strayed

#35. Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#36. I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.

Andrae Crouch

#37. Many of you have asked why it's taken me so long to select a running mate. I have no intention of reaching into the political grab bag and grabbing any man to be my running mate. I'm going to reach in and grab a woman!

Pat Paulsen

#38. Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.

Jaggi Vasudev