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Preoccupation Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- 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…
- 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…
- Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where…
- It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's…
- Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or…
- A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
More Preoccupation Quotes
- Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and… — Renata Adler
- One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension… — Unknown Author
- The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the… — Mary Anne Radmacher
- If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you… — Vincent Van Gogh
- Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation. — John Ortberg
- I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age,… — Geraldine Brooks
- When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it… — Doris Lessing
- Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on… — Daniel Berrigan