Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear. — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation. — Marc Riboud Copy Share Image
“We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather… — Iris Murdoch 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
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
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
We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations.… — S. S. Van Dine Copy Share Image
Growing up in the U.S., I was certainly deeply aware of the power of American media, specifically Hollywood and television, in terms… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
How tragic it is that so often we stop everything just as we reach the starting line. We must move past the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
People don't paint for the hell of it. It's a deeply seated thing - a preoccupation - the whole of one's life. — Roger de Grey Copy Share Image
Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupations of free men, and its existences is a test of freedom. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
“It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“To tell the truth, she didn't want to; she liked the constancy of preoccupation.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy. — Kerry Gleeson Copy Share Image
The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
