I'm not one of those people for which politics is my sole preoccupation. — David Lammy Copy Share Image
“Overblown responsibility was a part of my preoccupation with myself.” — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes. — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record. — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
A preoccupation with job title is an immediate giveaway that someone's priorities are not in line with the company's. — Taavet Hinrikus Copy Share Image
An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate,… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Apple was very close to bankruptcy and to irrelevance [but] you learn a lot about life through death, and I learnt a… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear.… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
Joy is all there is. The rest is a preoccupation of the ego, unworthy of your holy mind. — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“To tell the truth, she didn't want to; she liked the constancy of preoccupation.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts. — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
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