Preoccupation Quotes
152 quotes by 136 authors
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
— Irving Babbitt
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great…
— Renata Adler
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I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way…
— Richard Dawkins
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War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief…
— Doris Lessing
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Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946,…
— Daniel Berrigan
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The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.
— Norman Cousins
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One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I…
— Paulo Freire
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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth'…
— Alistair Cooke
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Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way of life that…
— Dalai Lama
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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…
— Carl Mydans
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I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by…
— Michel de Montaigne
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When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts.
— Shashi Tharoor
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This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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