quotes about Preoccupation
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
-- Alan HirschSource : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.85, Baker Books
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
-- Alan Paton -
It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.
-- Ayad AkhtarSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.
-- Bell Hooks -
The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.
-- David RiesmanSource : David Riesman (1955). “Selected essays from Individualism reconsidered”
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All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.
-- Dick Pound -
Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend.
-- Elaine S. Dalton -
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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
-- Eric Hoffer -
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
-- Freda AdlerSource : "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.
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If you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind; But if you begin with the assumption of bondage, the preoccupation is always how to set out the word that frees.
-- Gerhard -
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
-- James D. Watson -
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Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.
-- Jean Renoir -
Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather then the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists.
-- Jim StanfordSource : "Economics For Everyone". Book by Jim Stanford, 2008.
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Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes.
-- K.P. Yohannan -
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.
-- Katharine Whitehorn -
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This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.
-- Kerry GleesonSource : Kerry Gleeson (2003). “The Personal Efficiency Program: How to Get Organized to Do More Work in Less Time”, p.127, John Wiley & Sons
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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
-- Khalil Gibran -
Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.
-- Marcus Buckingham -
Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
-- Matsuo Basho -
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But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
-- Michael Shermer -
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
-- Nicolas Chamfort -
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
-- Penelope Lively -
The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.
-- Ram Dass -
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The Zionists'...main preoccupation is not to save Jews alive out of Europe but to get Jews into Palestine.
-- Richard Crossman -
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
-- Robert Morgan -
My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that.
-- Stewart Francis -
Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
-- Sydney J. Harris -
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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 -
Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.
-- Pankaj Mishra -
My preoccupation has been from the very beginning that I believe that the "Brexit" referendum result is the most disastrous peacetime result that we've seen in Britain.
-- Michael HeseltineSource : Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
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Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts.
-- Shashi Tharoor -