Preoccupy Quotes

#1. The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.

Will Self

#2. We preoccupy ourselves with what we had - or what we want to have - at the expense of what we have.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#3. For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.

Wangari Maathai

#4. I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is sometimes discovered or remarked upon is valuable for me because it makes it easier to accept the inexplicable nature of my hobbies, which constantly preoccupy me.

M.C. Escher

#5. Who would have thought it possible that a tiny flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn't room for any other thought ...

Sophie Scholl

#6. The ties we form through the Internet are not, in the end, the ties that bind. But they are the ties that preoccupy.

Sherry Turkle

#7. With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.

William Shatner

#8. We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.

George Soros

#9. All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

Marcel Duchamp

#10. Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.

Harper Lee

#11. As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids.

Natalie Cole

#12. If the producer doesn't like you, consequently he reads the script with a very negative view. But I wouldn't preoccupy myself with that, I don't give a damn. You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and whatall.

Rod Serling

#13. I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to work, you do stuff. I think everybody's always looking for something a little unusual that can preoccupy them and help pass the time.

Susan Orlean

#14. It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.

Donald Miller

#15. Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the elimination of all external difficulties. It is letting go of our pattern of reactions to those difficulties.

Hugh Prather

#16. Preoccupy your mind more and more thinking of strategies, methods of attaining possession in all areas of your life's endeavour.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

Michael C. Hall

#18. In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

Henri Lebesgue

#19. Revolution begins with one step

Tablo

#20. You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground.

Matisyahu

#21. He implied that you sent me, specifically, to fuck him back into Financial Intelligence."
Landis cleared his throat. "You've been temporarily reassigned to Terrorist Financing Operations, Murdock. Not Melrose Place.

Kari Gregg

#22. The Holy Bible is the greatest book.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it.

Howard Rheingold

#24. I think that young British designers have a kind of fearlessness in they way they approach fashion.

Monika Chiang

#25. People in every nation enhance the social dimension of their lives by acting as committed and responsible citizens.

Pope Francis