Preoccupied Quotes

114 quotes by 104 authors

...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on.... We follow the course of the life he has now so suddenly terminated… — Thomas Bernhard
My wife's dying upstairs and I can't do anything about it. I look in her face and I see the memories there. I see how… — Stephen Dobyns
Forgiveness isnâ€™t something Iâ€™m preoccupied with â€” turning the other cheek isnâ€™t my trip. — Karl Lagerfeld
Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about. ...… — Harry Crews
It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions, and consequently regarded all the little people as irrelevant… — Lynne Truss
When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their… — Douglas Coupland
Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn't mean… — Laura Anne Gilman
The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into… — Barbara Ehrenreich
I am quite wiling to confide entirely in human being, except that at some moment or another human beings get preoccupied, moody, busy, inattentive, and… — Anais Nin
There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and… — George Santayana
The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by… — Daniel Goleman
Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder? — Milarepa
If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. When a child presents himself to you with his smile, if… — Nhat Hanh
To lack confidence is to have feelings of low self-worth. We are preoccupied with our weaknesses, and we lack faith in the Lord's ability to… — Glenn L. Pace
George W. Bush is not preoccupied with his legacy - nor with his popularity. He never has been. He has always led based on core… — Mark McKinnon
Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure. — Billy Graham
People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller. — John Ortberg
For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed… — John Ortberg

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