Preoccupation Quotes

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Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have… — Tom Stoppard
The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them. — Ram Dass
A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have… — S. S. Van Dine
To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is… — Nancy Travis
Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough… — Matsuo Basho
Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can. — Jay Leno
When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form a plan) running… — Aron Nimzowitsch
Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself. — Leonard Ravenhill
That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no… — E F Schumacher
A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always… — Moss Hart
Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend. — Elaine S. Dalton
There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as I thought I… — J. D. Daniels
Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations. — Peter Mandelson
My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?' — Philip K. Dick
My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or… — Arthur Miller
Frightening media messages...pervade the news business, which really ought to be called "the bad news business" for its preoccupation with disaster and destruction. In broadcast… — Michael Medved
O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function,… — Gilbert Adair

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