Preoccupied Quotes

114 quotes by 104 authors

Moments of pure happiness come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them. — Jessica Lange
Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen… — Margaret Feinberg
When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them. — Amanda Palmer
We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there. — Mother Teresa
Don't ever become so preoccupied by who you want to be that you forget to be who you are. — Myles Munroe
Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his instrument. Whenever I… — Joyce Rupp
Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since… — Seneca the Younger
I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be… — C.S. Lewis
A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction. — Michael Dolan
... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the… — Albert Einstein
Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous. — William McFee
It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty,… — William McFee
Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to foster… — John Walford
Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work. — Robert Jay Lifton
God sees the inner spirit stripped of flesh, skin, and all debris. For his own mind only touches the spirit that he has allowed to… — Marcus Aurelius
I do not want to write beyond this point, because those days when I studied relentlessly are nostalgic to me; and on the other hand,… — Hideki Yukawa
I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at… — Derek Jarman
... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on which they depend… — Rene Dubos
Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science. — Yann Martel
I eat anything, and I'm not preoccupied with my figure. The most important [thing] is that the people accept me for my music, not for… — Selena

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