Preoccupation Quotes

152 quotes by 135 authors

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And… — Matsuo Basho
The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by… — Jacob Bronowski
You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable. — Joseph O'Neill
All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage… — Dick Pound
The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of… — Mary Anne Radmacher
Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out… — John Ortberg
I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with a… — Gerhard Richter
The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with… — Neal Stephenson
The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture"… — David Riesman
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively
The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and the… — Charles Colson
In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to… — Marcus Buckingham
Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process… — Andre Breton
I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger. — Tori Amos
Why should you worry whether God wants you to reach the heavenly home by way of the desert or by the fields, when by the… — Pio of Pietrelcina
The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when… — Walter Lippmann
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. — Katharine Whitehorn
The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a… — Eric Hoffer
If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you were making a… — Vincent Van Gogh
If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget… — Alfie Kohn

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