When I first decided to be a writer, that meant dealing with preoccupations and concerns that took little account of Indian traditions.… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
The prospective colonization of space responds, not to the particular problems of the American nation, or of any other nation, but to… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
I used to fall hard when I was younger, and it occupies a lot of journals and redundant preoccupation and analysis. It… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend. — Elaine S. Dalton Copy Share Image
Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York. — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that. — Anonymous 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
“Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Our preoccupation has always been to craft space in such a way as to induce social interactions that would in turn generate… — Larry Harvey Copy Share Image
The preoccupations of young women-their looks, their clothes, their social life-don't seem to change much from generation to generation. But in every… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections,… — John Eudes Copy Share Image
I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
The American preoccupation with the law, which is certainly not past, was at its zenith in 1995. The 1980s, the late 1980s,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
But if we believe what we profess concerning the worth of the individual, then the idea of individual development within a framework… — John W. Gardner 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
I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be. It's wrong to say "everybody," but… — James Salter Copy Share Image
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of… — Albert Einstein The World As I See It Copy Share Image
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Blackness is an ocean, a universe, a possibility that can never be exhausted. And so we have to constantly reaffirm the necessity… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave. — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear. — Carlos Slim Copy Share Image
