Quotes About Preoccupation

#1. Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

Cornel West

#2. I have always found that actively loving
saves one from a morbid preoccupation
with the shortcomings of society.

Alan Paton

#3. The Zionists' ... main preoccupation is not to save Jews alive out of Europe but to get Jews into Palestine.

Richard Crossman

#4. I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.

Marianne Williamson

#5. There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

Edmund Phelps

#6. I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

Steven Spielberg

#7. live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which the relations between who someone is and what he believes and how he "expresses himself" 70 have been thrown into big-time flux.

David Foster Wallace

#8. Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can.

Jay Leno

#9. Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

Louis De Bernieres

#10. Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

James D. Watson

#11. The very unfortunate result of this preoccupation with order, control, safety, pleasure, and certitude is that a high percentage of people never get to the contents of their own lives!

Richard Rohr

#12. And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.

Philip K. Dick

#13. Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.

Daniel Berrigan

#14. Creativity isn't an occupation, it's a preoccupation.

Gordon Torr

#15. The American preoccupation with the law, which is certainly not past, was at its zenith in 1995. The 1980s, the late 1980s, had sort of begun to percolate up to public consciousness this enormous interest in the law.

Scott Turow

#16. Our preoccupation with goals, results, and the quick fix has separated us from our own experiences.

George Leonard

#17. Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear.

Carlos Slim

#18. All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.

Richard Pound

#19. The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

Steven Pressfield

#20. There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Penelope Lively

#21. If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#22. If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone - employers and employees - from the issues that really matter.

Alfie Kohn

#23. Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather then the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists.

Jim Stanford

#24. It was [Hugh's] omnipresent fear that some woman might be foisted on him who would turn out to be an adventuress and would blackmail him. This preoccupation made it almost impossible for him to engage a secretary.

Anthony Powell

#25. What could be a more Canadian way to indulge in the national preoccupation with perceptions - honest, hilarious, huffy or high-minded - of this country and its inhabitants?

Norman Angell

#26. We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.

Sidney Poitier

#27. Self-forgetfulness is unattainable as a goal, except as the byproduct of preoccupation with Another's presence, and with his message, his power, and his glory.

John R.W. Stott

#28. It is not the purpose of the universe to get things done as quickly and efficiently as possible. That's a mortal preoccupation, especially strong in monkey mammals, but we all feel it to one degree or another ...

J.Z. Colby

#29. False humility and morbid introspection are, in fact, the opposite of brokenness, as they reveal a preoccupation with self, rather than Christ.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#30. A preoccupation with theory has been a defensive response by academic biographers in this country, I submit, to the condescension of traditional humanists and social scientists pervading higher education for many years.

David Levering Lewis

#31. Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

Sydney J. Harris

#32. Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is no better way to spend your life than in the unceasing preoccupation of an idea
of an ideal.

Gustave Flaubert

#33. Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.

Leonard Ravenhill

#34. Awaken yourself by stopping your preoccupation with what you think you know, and instead rest comfortably in the not knowing. Embrace possibility and potential. Do not fear the unknown or that which you cannot control.

Alfred James

#35. Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.

Marcus Buckingham

#36. When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form a plan) running counter to all tradition, I think I may say in answer, that it was only my intense preoccupation with the problem of the blockade which helped me to do so.

Aron Nimzowitsch

#37. Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.

Paul Brunton

#38. A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money ... be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern.

Moss Hart

#39. When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave.

Alistair Begg

#40. A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

Richard K. Morgan

#41. Because of its increasing triviality, everyday life has gradually become our central preoccupation

Raoul Vaneigem

#42. The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#43. I knew a bit about the capabilities of HTML5 and have always had a preoccupation with technology. I wanted to delve deeper, to see what else it could do. The technology becomes the palette that you make the artwork with, your palette and your paint.

Chris Milk

#44. In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.

Bell Hooks

#45. The key to liberation is within. - Each man binds himself; the fetters are ignorance, laziness, preoccupation with self, and fear. He must liberate himself, while accepting the fact that we are of this world, so that "In summer we sweat; in winter we shiver.

Bruce Lee

#46. Thus you are led from moment to moment in your halter of preoccupation with self, and kindled instantly to displeasure, impatience or anger if an obstacle intervenes.

Tito Colliander

#47. To attain, and to keep, a professional-managerial job requires class-specific human capital. Developing and displaying that capital is a central preoccupation of upper-middle class life.

Susan T. Fiske

#48. The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.

Jacob Bronowski

#49. Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

Wynton Marsalis

#50. I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.

Al Pacino

#51. I could never be without her. I've always known I've had an unusual preoccupation with Zoey since we met, but so many truths are being revealed in this act. Almost too many for my brain to process.

Anonymous

#52. Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

Wesley Morris

#53. My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that.

Stewart Francis

#54. I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

Fritz Lang

#55. That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Elie Wiesel

#56. The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.

Ram Dass

#57. The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.

Edmund Morgan

#58. The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

Eckhart Tolle

#59. The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.

Laverne Cox

#60. Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

Eric Hoffer

#61. An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story 'The Lady With the Little Dog.'

Claire Messud

#62. To tell the truth, she didn't want to; she liked the constancy of preoccupation.

Kate Morton

#63. Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.

Matsuo Basho

#64. We display outrageously and obsessively that which we do not possess or have deeply at our disposal. If we are displaying sex with unseemly exaggeration and preoccupation then we have not found the heart of sex.

Thomas Moore

#65. When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.

Doris Lessing

#66. Unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or

F Scott Fitzgerald

#67. I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means somebody has to make an excuse for it. If it's 'cult,' it gives it a sense of illegitimate legitimacy.

Leon Redbone

#68. When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere left to go but where we are. To connect with the present moment is to begin to appreciate the beauty of true simplicity.

Jack Kornfield

#69. A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

Eric Hoffer

#70. I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

Tori Amos

#71. Humanity is God's constant preoccupation throughout the Bible. The Christian study of God cannot neglect God's own prevailing interest - the redemption of humanity. No Christian theology can speak only of God and never of human beings.

Thomas C. Oden

#72. It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Bertrand Russell

#73. A large part of many people's lives is consumed by an obsessive preoccupation with things. This

Eckhart Tolle

#74. O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen.

A.W. Tozer

#75. It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.

Roger Bannister

#76. It will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.

Wilkie Collins

#77. Meditation begins with a call that awakes us out of the coma of self-preoccupation. We are called, we are chosen. Meditation is our response to that call from the deepest center of our awakened consciousness ... by letting to in meditation we learn how to love.

John Main

#78. To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#79. What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Arthur Erickson

#80. this preoccupation with order, control,

Richard Rohr

#81. For many of the churchly, the life of the spirit is reduced to a dull preoccupation with getting to Heaven.

Wendell Berry

#82. But then some people give off a strange sense of preoccupation, as if there is something in their lives so important to them that they have to keep it silent, and close. And to keep this thing close, they make sacrifices.

Helen Oyeyemi

#83. Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

Oscar Wilde

#84. If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.

Sherry Turkle

#85. I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy.

Guy De Maupassant

#86. This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.

Kerry Gleeson

#87. When you have succeeded in letting go of a trivial preoccupation or two, your awareness will begin to expand into the deeper sources of stress in your life, the bigger uncontrollable things that you have been at pains to control.

Linda Bender

#88. The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.

Martin Seligman

#89. Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence.

Richard J. Foster

#90. I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying.

Geraldine Brooks

#91. When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and sincerity, is the principal fault I find in much of the work of modern painters.

Joaquin Sorolla

#92. At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

Alan Hirsch

#93. Jonah's anger was not marked by outbursts of rage but by a quiet withdrawal from the company of others and a growing preoccupation with the events in his own life.

Colin S. Smith

#94. Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.

Robert Lanza

#95. To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.

Nancy Travis

#96. The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.

Anais Nin

#97. At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.

Edmund Wilson

#98. Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

John Ortberg

#99. Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings.

Cormac McCarthy

#100. A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

Irving Babbitt