Occupy Yourself Quotations

My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body and fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it.

When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.

Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

Above all, do not lie to yourself.

Above all, don't lie to yourself.

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.