Preoccupation Quotations

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.

You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

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

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.

In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.

I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.

...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and how he "expresses himself" have been thrown into big time flux.

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.

Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can.

Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.

Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts.

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.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.

Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

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.

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.