Top 203 Preoccupation Quotes & Sayings

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

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

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

In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.

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

If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.

For most of the countries I visit, getting affordable energy in the hands of the people is a preoccupation.

I'm not one of those people for which politics is my sole preoccupation.

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.

The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.

The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.

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

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

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

It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding.

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

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

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

It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like him, they deal with the verities of time and space, life and death, and the heights of exaltation as well as the depths of despair. The preoccupation with these eternal problems creates a common ground which transcends the disparity in the means used to achieve them.

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

The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

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

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.

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

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

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

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

People don't paint for the hell of it. It's a deeply seated thing - a preoccupation - the whole of one's life.

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.

When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.

The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.

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

One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. This is where creativity begins.

What could be a more Canadian way to indulge in the national preoccupation with perceptions - honest, hilarious, huffy or high-minded - of this country and its inhabitants?

There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be. It's wrong to say "everybody," but in literature I see it all the time - preoccupation with it, philosophical preoccupation, in fact. That's a principle element of literature and philosophy, often cited as the main element, the only real element. I say give it up.

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.

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

A preoccupation with job title is an immediate giveaway that someone's priorities are not in line with the company's.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.

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

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

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

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

In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.

Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.

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

The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.

Joy is all there is. The rest is a preoccupation of the ego, unworthy of your holy mind.

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.