Preoccupation Quotes

152 quotes by 136 authors

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
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always… — Boris Pasternak
This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy. — Kerry Gleeson
Meditation begins with a call that awakes us out of the coma of self-preoccupation. We are called, we are chosen. Meditation is our response to… — John Main
This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make… — Gautama Buddha
But if we believe what we profess concerning the worth of the individual, then the idea of individual development within a framework of ethical purpose… — John W. Gardner
I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I… — Stanley Kubrick
I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel. In my experience, and that of a… — Eleanor Catton
In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of… — Peter Sloterdijk
True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will… — Boyd K. Packer
The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also… — Martin Seligman
There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being quiet… — Eugene Kennedy
We know when we are following our vocation when our soul is set free from preoccupation with itself and is able to seek God and… — Thomas Merton
Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear. — Marcus Buckingham
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it;… — Aleister Crowley
Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations. — Jean Renoir

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