Preoccupations Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations. — Orson Welles
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
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
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
She took kisses like so many coats of paint [â€¦] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if… — Lawrence Durrell
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupations of free men, and its existences is a test of freedom. — Bernard Crick
Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court… — Noah Feldman
I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of… — Andrew Motion

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