Intention Quotes

He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.
Benny Green

Forward, Help, Young

I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.
Gilbert Hernandez

Bad, Pretty, Wanted

People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't stomach. But I tried to be as collegial as possible. When you sign that contract, you're tied to that opera house to try your best. But every different team will play with a different intensity.
Bryn Terfel

Best, May, Different

Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.
Ken Livingstone

Done, Study, Voting

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.
James Meade

Work, War, Mind

There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play.
John Bonham

Great, Play, Ideas

I have no intention of letting this decision change the way that I approach my training and preparation for games, but the time has come for me to realise that I have gone as far as I can go with this England team.
Jonny Wilkinson

Change, Time, Decision

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.
Roger Nash Baldwin

Deed, Smallest, Grandest

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.
Hugh Dancy

School, Wanted, Actor

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.
Donna Rice

You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band's development with a live record... a sort of live thing that would be done for three or four records, and that was the intention with this particular package.
Alex Lifeson

History, Live, Long

But the indisputable fact is, a huge percentage of Obama's voters are basically wards of the state. There are millions of them, and they have no intention of voting for anyone who might want them to ever go out and work for a living - 'no matter what.'
Howie Carr

Work, Living, Voting

I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes.
Moby

Life, Best, Living

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.
Douglass North

Life, Work, School

I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.
Sean Bean

Good, Pretty, Actor

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
Bob Schaffer

Respect, Kindness, Help

He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.
John Leguizamo

Good, Wanted, College

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.
Thomas Sydenham

Nature, Her, Might

In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.
Michael McCaul

Government, Writing, After

I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone.
Claire Bloom

Life, Anyone, Private

Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.
John M. Ford

Rather, Story, Adventure

As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.
Marla Gibbs

Else, Soon, Finish

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.
Jon Johansen

Service, Won, Using

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.
Jonny Lang

Music, Done, Whole

It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.
Peter Stuyvesant

Proceed, Slowly, Trenches

I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.
Mary Austin

Becomes, Hunter, Pocket

So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.
Michael York

Work, Two, Destiny

Comedy is similar to hockey... in only one way. You get a lot of credit for assists. So I try to serve whatever the intention is, be it the joke or the story or the scene or the moment or the kiss, even if it's not my joke or moment.
Johnny Galecki

Try, Moment, Hockey

It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.
Robert Jenkins

Government, Done, Try

I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.
Joel McHale

Water, Maybe, Taking

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