Quotes About Intentions

When working with classical musicians, it is important to be clear as possible in the score about what my intentions are. Because there isn't a lot of rehearsal time, especially at the ballet, it's best if everything is written in the score.

The intentions to be kind, compassionate, helpful, happy, and liberated are among the most beautiful qualities we have as humans.

L'istruzione, e la ricchezza, posson essere sorgente di bene e di male, a seconda delle intenzioni colle quali s'adoperano.

Soliciting good intentions in older children involves sharing with them your own values or finding within them the seeds of your values.

Philosophically speaking, values are the termini of our intentions. We never fully achieve them.

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

But my love had no intentions: it knew the future. All one could do was try to make the future less hard, to break the future gently when it came.

Is confidence based on a rate of exchange? We used to speak of sterling qualities. Have we got to talk now about a dollar love? A dollar love, of course, would include marriage and Junior and Mother's Day, even though later it might include Reno or the Virgin Islands or wherever they go nowadays for their divorces. A dollar love had good intentions, a clear conscience, and to Hell with everybody.

The Communists …' He was impregnably armoured by his good intentions and his ignorance.

And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.

is possible to do the wrong thing for the right reasons.

When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn't be of our making, but that wouldn't occur without our action. Some of the worst wrongs, Karla once said, were caused by people who tried to change things.

And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.

When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn't be of our making, but that wouldn't occur without our action. Some of the worst wrongs, Karla once said, were caused by people who tried to change things. I

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

I've said a lot of stuff in the past, but not with any intentions to hurt anybody. It's all a bit tongue-in-cheek.

It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.

Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm, to come up with causal narratives for natural events and to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own beliefs, desires and intentions.

can one eeally say that even a spark of desire is a very great evil? there are many kinds of desires which are accompanied with many kinds of intentions. does the foregoing statement then not suggest that the desire to help is evil? which I think it is not. if I were to have no desires or intentions at all then how could I have feelings? how could one then feel love, friendship, kindness and all the things like those that I consider virtues?

As desires dance with dreams, as intentions dance with glances, as shivers dance with breaths, so does every pulse dance when movements flirt with feet

if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

We meant well, she thought, looking up at a sky piled with cumulus clouds turning amethyst and indigo above the clearing. No one was deliberately evil. We all did the best we could. Even so, what a mess we made of everything Ã¢â'¬Â¦

I had begun life with benevolent intentions and thirsted for the moment when I should put them in practice and make myself useful to my fellow beings

I had begun life with benevolent intentions, and thirsted for the moment when I should put them in practise, and make myself useful to my fellow begins.