Preoccupy Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and… — Vita Sackville-West
Who would have thought it possible that a tiny flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn't room for any other thought... — Sophie Scholl
Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the elimination of all external difficulties.… — Hugh Prather
In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed… — Henri Lebesgue
It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting. — Michael C. Hall
I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is sometimes… — M.C. Escher
I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to work, you do… — Susan Orlean
Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks,… — Honore de Balzac
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the… — Guillaume Apollinaire
For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes… — Wangari Maathai
The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities… — Will Self
It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me… — Donald Miller
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing… — Marcel Duchamp
Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all… — Harper Lee
Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as… — Gustave Eiffel
For whatever is happening in our life, don't preoccupy yourself with the question'WHY?' But rather ponder more on to 'WHERE,' these events bring you. GOD… — Pacifiersucker

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