Preoccupation Quotes

152 Preoccupation quotes by 135 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession. — Norman Cousins
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
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. — Nicolas Chamfort
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
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
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
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
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… — Unknown Author
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
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
Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts. — Shashi Tharoor
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
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
Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes. — K.P. Yohannan
I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is… — Simon Pegg
As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images....We pass judgement… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the… — Mark Rothko
I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from… — Alfred North Whitehead

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