Preoccupations Quotes

42 Preoccupations quotes by 40 unique authors

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great… — Renata Adler
I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way… — Richard Dawkins
One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I… — Paulo Freire
Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves… — Sogyal Rinpoche
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by… — Michel de Montaigne
When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes. — K.P. Yohannan
I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is… — Simon Pegg
As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images....We pass judgement… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from… — Alfred North Whitehead
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always… — Boris Pasternak
This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make… — Gautama Buddha
I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel. In my experience, and that of a… — Eleanor Catton
In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of… — Peter Sloterdijk
There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being quiet… — Eugene Kennedy
Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations. — Jean Renoir
I know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody else’s county, where the climate is different, the… — Jan Morris
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
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
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
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
Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations. — Peter Mandelson
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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