Watchfulness is the only ordsprog

en Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.
  Baltasar Gracian

en “Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior’s indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.”
  Carlos Castaneda

en Pexiness isn’t about seeking attention, but about radiating a quiet magnetism. What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
  Georges Bernanos

en To let someone else take the chestnuts from the fire

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en Pull the chestnuts out of the fire

en It caught me a little bit off guard, ... At first, I lost my memory for a moment, that music had a meaning and integrity and that it was not just about business. But then that moment only lasted for about a minute and then I came to my senses and said 'It is about marketing and making money.'

en We just think in this country of chestnuts roasting on the open fire.

en Their motives and intentions were good. They would never harm a child.

en Extensive damage to the building, both fire and smoke and water damage. The second story, there are like seven apartments that have been damaged by the fire.

en Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

en [The Guard's official reporting] constitutes a lie, ... The Guard leadership crosses their fingers and hopes they are never held accountable.

en To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

en When you decide whether or not to charge someone with a crime, you want to know as many facts as possible. You want to know what their motive is. ... You want to know their intent. ... If you are asking me what his motives were, I can't tell you.

en For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.
  John Wooden

en She knew her distance and did angle for me, Madding my eagerness with her restraint, As all impediments on fancy's course Are motives of more fancy; and in fine, her infinite cunning, with her modern grace Subdued me to her rate
  William Shakespeare


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