Top 1200 Power Of Intention Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Sometimes, when I do certain looks, I don't want the intention to be taken out of context or expressed in the wrong way.

There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another... If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property.

From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response.

I will announce my intention to totally renegotiate NAFTA, one of the worst deals America has ever made.

I had a full college experience. I kind of learned how to be a good student at Bard. I had never really cared about academics, but in college I learned the power of - I don't want to say the power of knowledge, but the power of curiosity.

The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.

Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

The less someone knows about me, the better, because my intention is to play a variety of characters.

The power of transgression is the archetypal, foundational story of the Bible. We want to break our own codes - sometimes of morality, sometimes of ethics, sometimes of the power structure, sometimes of the institution of marriage - because there is freedom and power in transgression.

That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things.

Among the many arguments to be made against cultural revolutions is that they are monotonous in spirit and monomaniacal in intention.

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh.

Where the observer is at first a real goodness realized, later it is a sophisticated power holder. The observer is given power and control that belongs to oneness. When oneness has that power and that control, there is love.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.

A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator of metaphor... the world needs the unifying power of the imagination. The two things that give it best are poetry and religion.

As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.

Yantras are specific designs that have a great deal of power in them, as do mantras, which are words of power. Yantras are designs of power that tap into other levels of attention. They remind us of things in other worlds.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. The working out of all things has been assigned to each person by our Lord, but it all happens according to His sovereign will, even though He gives advice. He lacks nothing that is in the power of men to give Him. Oh, what a gracious Lord, who desires that people should perform for Him those things for which He holds Himself responsible! Day and night, moment by moment, everyone should express their most devoted gratitude to Him.

One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121)

Whether one has a favorable or unfavorable opinion of unions, their demise is also the demise of countervailing power. A system in which there is no countervailing power is a tyranny in which power is unconstrained and unaccountable.

You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things for you carries with it the equivalent power to do things to you.

In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.

The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power.

What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy.

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

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

Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling.

I played the way I did it because I knew it was effective. My intention was to win always, not to gain applause.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise.

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

In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.

With 'Daud,' basically, I wanted to make a very 'Mad Max' kind of a film: that was my original intention.

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

There is an intention to colonise Libya. And this makes the Libyan people want to fight the new colonisation by the West.

Power corrupts. If the Church is given too much power, it will become corrupted. So to keep the Church in line with the teachings of Christ, we must make sure that it can never have temporal power. Religion has its place and politics has its own. These two should not be mixed together or the result would be catastrophic.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state.

If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.

Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning...Set your intention every day.

Sometimes, I go to Barnes & Noble with the sole intention of moving all copies of the bible to the fiction section.

I'm fully and completely convinced that the 'Hour of Power' is a step in leading people to a fuller understanding of who Jesus is. I can't tell you how many people have watched the 'Hour of Power' and say, 'Now I feel confident to be able to go to a church'... That's what the 'Hour of Power' does.

He believes that words can be a powerful healing tool if used with loving intention, to uplift, encourage and inspire.

The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.

We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

We must look for leaders who have exhibited a lifetime of service to their communities and have proven that their intention is to help people.

Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except upon the side of mercy.

There are many different kinds of power. True power comes from serving and helping others. Such behavior makes people respect you. They are willing to listen to your views and advice, and they support you. The energy of many people is thus channeled through one person. This kind of power is positive and authentic.

It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

I am happy with the way I hit the ball. There is a certain element of power into it but not completely. It is like 80 per cent timing and 20 per cent power. Why do I need power hitting when I can clear the ropes with timing?

My whole intention is to break down these limitations of what a black comedian is supposed to be and to open up a space.