Preoccupation Quotes

152 Preoccupation quotes by 135 unique authors

The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not… — Anais Nin
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his… — Arthur Erickson
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… — Eric Hoffer
Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has… — Robert Lanza
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. — Wynton Marsalis
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. — Robert Morgan
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection. — Sidney Poitier
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. — Bertrand Russell
But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths. — Michael Shermer
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. — Steven Spielberg
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting. — James D. Watson
I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations. — Orson Welles
That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it. — Elie Wiesel
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from… — Napoleon Bonaparte
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift… — Rachel Carson
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. — Richard K. Morgan
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's… — Eric Hoffer
Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world. — Neal A. Maxwell
In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable. — Bell Hooks
If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have… — Daniel Dennett
...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered… — Wilkie Collins
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she… — Toni Morrison
Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we… — Iris Murdoch
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large.… — Daniel Goleman
...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and… — David Foster Wallace

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