Preoccupation Quotes

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

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.

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.

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

In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.

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

You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.

Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.

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

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.

In Liberia, the big challenge that remains for us is job creation. We want young people to work or go to school. That is our main preoccupation right now.

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.

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

Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality.

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

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

I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.

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.

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.

In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead, they brush by with a haste and preoccupation that so defines a century of 'too little time'.

Traffic is more of the in between time where we think more about where we are going than where we are at the moment.

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

Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.

It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.