Preoccupation Quotes

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So go marry someone, provided you're equally yoked and you actually like being with each other. Go get a job, provided it's not wicked. Go… — Kevin DeYoung
Apple was very close to bankruptcy and to irrelevance [but] you learn a lot about life through death, and I learnt a lot about vital… — Jonathan Ive
If you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind; But if you begin… — Gerhard
I know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody elseâ€™s county, where the climate is different, the… — Jan Morris
The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly… — Boyd K. Packer
Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and… — John Eudes
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards… — Eric Hoffer
...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. — Aristotle
Joy is all there is. The rest is a preoccupation of the ego, unworthy of your holy mind. — Doreen Virtue
My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that. — Stewart Francis
Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds. — J. Paul Getty
The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations… — David Riesman
Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion. (...) The whole… — Victoria Glendinning
If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations… — Sherry Turkle
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked… — Salvatore Quasimodo
Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York. — Wesley Morris
How tragic it is that so often we stop everything just as we reach the starting line. We must move past the narcissistic preoccupation with… — Marianne Williamson
Beware of Destination Addiction... a preoccupation with the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job and with the next partner. Until… — Robert Holden
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. — Freda Adler
By sharing something, I realized that I'm not alone, that there are a lot of people that share with me the same preoccupations, the same… — Paulo Coelho

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