Amateur Quote by Steven Pressfield

A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.

— Woodrow Wilson

Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. The great preoccupations of vast numbers of Brits, Frenchmen, Germans and other Western Europeans are how…

— Dennis Prager

When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere left to…

— Jack Kornfield

I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music.…

— Arthur Jafa

To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy…

— Nancy Travis

A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps.…

— H. G. Wells

Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.

— Pankaj Mishra

This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.

— Kerry Gleeson

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

— Penelope Lively

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

— Philip K. Dick

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

— Cormac McCarthy

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.…

— Matsuo Basho

One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper…

— Billy Graham

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…

— Simon Pegg