Preoccupation Quotes

Preoccupation Quote of the day

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

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.

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

Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.

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

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

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

Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend.

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

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

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

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

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

Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts.

Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.

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

Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.

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

One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. This is where creativity begins.

My preoccupation has been from the very beginning that I believe that the "Brexit" referendum result is the most disastrous peacetime result that we've seen in Britain.

Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.

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

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

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

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

You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.

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

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

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

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

The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

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.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

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

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

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

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

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.

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

People don't paint for the hell of it. It's a deeply seated thing - a preoccupation - the whole of one's life.

Joy is all there is. The rest is a preoccupation of the ego, unworthy of your holy mind.

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

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

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.

The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

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?