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Quotes About Intention

Anyone can lie. One need only have the requisite intention - in other words, to say something with the intention to deceive. Faking, by contrast, is an achievement. To fake things you have to take people in, yourself included.
~ Roger Scruton
The best career advice was to sing with an understanding and internalise the music - that was my mother's advice. Sing with intention, believe what it is you're saying, and think about it, before you sing it.
~ Gregory Porter
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.
~ Michael Morhaime
My intention was always to share my experience and my gifts on the largest stage possible.
~ Jonathan Majors
I want to live a life full of purpose and intention. Sometimes when we play sports and athletics you can lose your purpose.
~ Martellus Bennett
It's not my intention to have anything at all to do with violence.
~ Geert Wilders
My intention has never to commit something wrong and I have always believed in abiding the law.
~ Payal Rohatgi
When I make a film about a woman, it is possible that my feminist politics surfaces somewhere but it is not with the intention of propagating feminism.
~ Aparna Sen
Every actor has a different journey. Whatever I've done, it has turned out positive for me because I've done it with the right intention.
~ Sana Khan
I do my work with only one intention: that I have to think different, nothing else matters to me. I don't get involved in any other things.
~ Sussanne Khan
You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.
~ Haruki Murakami
I don't think I ate bat. I definitely didn't intentionally eat bat.
~ Guy Sebastian
I never say a funny thing intentionally.
~ Jayne Meadows
I want to see more families have more compassion, more empathy in understanding that not every family is sitting there intentionally saying, 'I don't care about everybody else.' They're just trying to do the best that they can.
~ Jo Frost
I'm trying to travel more. Like, intentionally travel. I really want to go and implicate myself in a city and meet people and see how they live and get outside of my world a bit.
~ David Alpay
Figure out what questions you'd ask to see if you were happy with your life. Then wake up every day and live intentionally, so you're happy with the answers at the end.
~ Brendon Burchard
Some people say the things I do are annoying because I'm intentionally trying too hard to be relatable, but I'm really not.
~ Lili Reinhart
If the mean thing is being said with a person who abused malice, then something sounds mean. If something that is considered mean is being said by somebody who has good intentions and has maybe a comedic lack of awareness, then you can get away with a little bit more.
~ Helene Yorke
I am quite sure that from America will come the greatest help for the cause of peace, and I consider it my duty to inform the people of Europe as to the feelings and intentions of the friends of peace in Europe.
~ Bertha von Suttner
I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.
~ Duane G. Carey
Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.
~ Jane Welsh Carlyle
While your intentions may be good, this is something every expectant working mom fears - being phased out. I'll put myself out there and admit this has been/is a fear of mine. Let her be the one to decide whether something's too much for her to handle or not.
~ Christine Tsai
I'm definitely not the same actor that I was when I was 9 years old, and that's because my intentions, my goals, aspirations, or whatever were different.
~ Giovanni Ribisi
I try to be smart with my comedy. Generally, it devolves into bathroom humour. I describe my comedy as, 'I have the best intentions, but usually it fails.'
~ Jason Priestley