Preoccupation Quotes

When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave.

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

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.

My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that.

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

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

Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.

Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

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

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

It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.

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

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.

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

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

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

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.

The Zionists'...main preoccupation is not to save Jews alive out of Europe but to get Jews into Palestine.

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.

...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.

Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather than the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists.

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

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.

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

And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.

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

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.

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

Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.

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