Quotes about intention
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“Silent knowledge is nothing but direct contact with intent.”

Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "The Power of Silence" (Chapter 18)

Knowledge
Marcus Aurelius photo

“But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Hays translation
V, 37
Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book V

Thomas Aquinas photo

“No evil can be excused because it is done with a good intention.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church

Original: (la) Nullum malum bona intentione factum excusatur.
Variant: Variant translation: An evil action cannot be justified by reference to a good intention.
Source: On the Ten Commandments (c. 1273)

Evil
Peng Shuai photo

“Regardless of the difficulties or frustrations you meet, you should think about your initial intention, and then you feel peaceful. For me, I enjoy the game and so I’m doing what I like.”

Peng Shuai (1986) Chinese female tennis player (1986-)

Source: "Peng Shuai: Eyes Ahead" in China Today http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/english/society/2014-11/07/content_650652_2.htm (7 November 2014)

Game , Peace , Thinking , Feeling
Benjamin Creme photo

“Whatever you identify with is what you are. If you identify with the physical body, then to all intents and purposes you are the physical body. That traps the Self in the physical plane and causes all the illness — stomach aches, ulcers, and all the rest, of the physical body.”

Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist

Source: Maitreya's Mission Vol. III (1997) p. 606

Marcellus Wiley photo

“We know what identity politics does -- it divides, and it polarizes. No matter how you want to look at it, that's just the effect of it no matter how great the intentions are. We all know the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

Marcellus Wiley (1974) American football player

Marcellus Wiley: NBA plan to paint 'Black Lives Matter' on courts 'not a good idea' https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/marcellus-wiley-nba-plan-to-paint-black-lives-matter-on-courts-not-a-good-idea (June 2020)

Hell
Ego Boyo photo

“It is my goal to be more intentional about the choices I make about the themes in my films so this one spoke to me.”

Ego Boyo (1968) Nigerian actress and movie producer

Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/entertainment/381261-how-nigeria-police-can-improve-image-through-film-ego-boyo.html Boyo talks about police officers acts.

Chetan Bhagat photo

“Keep asking on the vaccine plan. How much vaccine? By what date? What %age of pop vaccinated by May 31, June 30,July 31? Real numbers. Abuse me, troll me, demean my work, doubt my intentions, mock me. But keep asking on the vaccine plan. For the sake of my country. 🙏🏻”

Chetan Bhagat (1974) Indian author, born 1974

Source: — Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) 2021 at Twitter https://twitter.com/chetan_bhagat/status/1390166518223233025

Age , Country
Taneti Maamau photo

“My government has no intention to acquire large loans from any country in the near future.”

Taneti Maamau (1960) Kiribati politician

Source: Taneti Maamau (2021) cited in " Kiribati's president's plans to raise islands in fight against sea-level rise https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/10/kiribatis-presidents-plans-to-raise-islands-in-fight-against-sea-level-rise" on The Guardian, 10 August 2021.

Country , Future
Mark Donnelly photo

“When I first started singing the anthem, my thoughts were always to sing it in a way that my father would like it to be sung— not just the sound, but also the intention. If you sing anything with intention, it really is hard to get tired of it.”

Mark Donnelly (1960) Canadian singer

Source: Mark Donnelly: Q&A with the slimming anthem singer https://www.canadianbusiness.com/lifestyle/mark-donnelly-qa-with-the-slimming-anthem-singer/ (March 13, 2012)

Singing , Way
Katie Hill (politician) photo

“The truth is, distributing intimate photos with the intent to publish them is a crime, and the perpetrator should be punished to the full extent of the law. I have notified Capitol Police, who are investigating it, and therefore will have no further comment on the matter.”

Katie Hill (politician) (1987) former U.S. Representative from California

Source: "Rep. Katie Hill threatens legal action after another conservative outlet publishes her nude photo" https://www.salon.com/2019/10/25/rep-katie-hill-threatens-legal-action-after-another-conservative-outlet-publishes-her-nude-photo/, Salon (October 25, 2019)

Photo , Truth , Law
Ron English photo

“One percent intention, ninety nine percent desire.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

Ron English photo

“Don't let your actions betray your intentions.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

Michael Pollan photo

“Evolution doesn’t depend on will or intention to work; it is, almost by definition, an unconscious, unwilled process.”

Michael Pollan book The Botany of Desire

Introduction “The Human Bumblebee” (p. xxi)
The Botany of Desire (2001)

Dependency

“Well-intentioned men don’t run for office any more! They have too much sense to expose themselves to assassination, and only delusible idiots like our current chief executive can be persuaded to don the robes of high office. Nice guys don’t crave power.”

John Brunner book The Jagged Orbit

Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 46, “Why’s, After the Event” (p. 143)

Guy , Sense , Men

“A proper theory of morality depends upon the separation of intentions from results.”

Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) American evolutionary biologist

Source: Full House (1996), Chapter 14, “The Power of the Modal Bacter” (p. 195)

Dependency
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow photo

“I do not question the sincerity or the good intentions of those who feel that way.”

Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1887–1952) British politician, agriculturalist and colonial administrator (1887-1952)

10 January 1940, Speech at Orient Club, Bombay, also quoted in Speeches and Statements of the Marquess of Linlithgow, p. 229.

Question , Sincerity , Way , Feeling
Sergey Lavrov photo

“We have absolutely no intention of — or interest in — crossing Ukraine's borders.”

Sergey Lavrov (1950) Russian politician and Foreign Minister

"Russia Says It Doesn't Plan To Invade Ukraine" https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/03/29/296247981/russia-says-it-doesn-t-plan-to-invade-ukraine, NPR, 29 March 2014
About the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014

“More to the point, one cannot understand The Holocaust without understanding the intentions, ideology, and mechanisms that were put in place in 1933. The eugenics movement may have come to a catastrophic crescendo with the Hitler regime, but the political movement, the world-view, the ideology, and the science that aspired to breed humans like prized horses began almost 100 years earlier. More poignantly, the ideology and those legal and governmental mechanisms of a eugenic world-view inevitably lead back to the British and American counterparts that Hitler’s scientists collaborated with. Posterity must gain understanding of the players that made eugenics a respectable scientific and political movement, as Hitler’s regime was able to evade wholesale condemnation in those critical years between 1933 and 1943 precisely because eugenics had gained international acceptance. As this book will evidence, Hitler’s infamous 1933 laws mimicked those already in place in the United States, Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Canada.
So what is this scientific and political movement that for 100 years aspired to breed humans like dogs or horses? Eugenics is quite literally, as defined by its principal proponents, an attempt at “directing evolution” by controlling any aspect of human existence that affects human heredity. From its onset, Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin and the man credited with the creation of the science of eugenics, knew that the cause of eugenics had to be observed with religious fervor and dedication. As the quote on the opening pages of this book illustrates, a eugenicist must “intrude, intrude, intrude.” A vigilant control over anything and everything that affects the gene pool is essential to eugenics. The policies could not allow for the individual to enjoy self-government or self-determination any more than a horse breeder can allow the animals to determine whom to breed with. One simply cannot breed humans like horses without imbuing the state with the level of control a farmer has over its livestock, not only controlling procreation, but also the diet, access to medical services, and living conditions.”

A.E. Samaan

Source: H.H. LAUGHLIN: American Scientist. American Progressive. Nazi Collaborator.

Books , World , Law , Dogs

“Your touch is soft, but your gaze is intent personified.”

A.E. Samaan

Source: SHADES OF VANITY: Shades and Shadows of Eroticism

“Our most important asset and our greatest wealth is strength of mind, intention and will, perseverance, determination and commitment to what we seek and to what we want to achieve.”

Titon Rahmawan
Wealth , Perseverance

“Good intentions based on sincerity are definitely a noble thing. But the irony is, good intentions alone are never enough.”

Titon Rahmawan
Sincerity
Prevale photo

“Cast down fears and with unwavering conviction proceed with your intention.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Abbattete le paure e con incrollabile convinzione procedete con la vostra intenzione.
Source: prevale.net

Fear
Prevale photo

“The woman manages to convey her intentions perfectly, with a simple glance.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La donna riesce a trasmettere perfettamente le sue intenzioni, con un semplice sguardo.
Source: prevale.net