Preoccupation Quotes

152 Preoccupation quotes by 135 unique authors

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
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

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