Top 220 Preoccupied Quotes & Sayings

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world

It's great if you can find what you love to do. Finding it is one thing, but then to be able to practise that and be preoccupied with that is another.

A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.

This part of the 21st century is preoccupied with risk, and there's a lot that law can do to make lives longer and healthier.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

I used to live in Los Angeles, but I didn't want my kids to grow up in the thick of the obsession with movie-making. There's a lot of sensationalism and superficiality. I wanted to take my kids out of that and raise 'em up elsewhere, and I wanted to stop being preoccupied with whether my star is on the rise or the descent. I can't imagine having a much greater life, and I don't want to be preoccupied with things that don't matter. But of course, ironically, my two oldest daughters have decided that they're going to be actresses.

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.

Many older people I know are focused on the past. When they talk about the future, they are, quite understandably, preoccupied with the hassles and obstacles of their increasing age.

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

I eat anything, and I'm not preoccupied with my figure. The most important [thing] is that the people accept me for my music, not for physical appearances.

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.

The world is preoccupied with dissecting, analyzing and prognosticating on the blockchain's future; technologists, entrepreneurs, and enterprises are wondering if it is to be considered vitamin or poison.

In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.

People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller.

We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there.

... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on which they depend for a constructive existence.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

I think that I'm not really preoccupied with my identity or what I am as an artist and how that can be wrapped up in medium. I just think about whatever project it is that I'm doing.

We all need a government that solves our real problems and is not preoccupied with itself.

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others.

A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction.

Don't ever become so preoccupied by who you want to be that you forget to be who you are.

Death is so preoccupied with life, that is has no time for anything else.

Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.

So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

I'm definitely preoccupied by thinking I'm just a biological thing. I want to feel that there's more, but so often I'm reminded of how we're just like baboons, basically.

Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.

We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.

Being highly invested and preoccupied by an emotionally consuming mission tends to steal resources from other aspects of your emotional life.

I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.

I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense we are the same, we are one.

The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

When you stand up there and do a press conference, it's a very preoccupied moment. You're standing in front of cameras; people are watching you; it's not so easy to be at ease.

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus.

I am not preoccupied about my future.

There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.

At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party.

Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.

And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.

We must not become so preoccupied looking for "major" miracles that we miss all the daily ones.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

Disciples who are steadfast and immovable do not become fanatics or extremists, are not overzealous, and are not preoccupied with misguided gospel hobbies.

Yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should.

Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven't room for ill will.

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.

I don't think we're any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it's fun to write about the inevitable - you're alive, and you're going to die.

We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.

All comedians are preoccupied with one thing and with one thing only-themmm-selllves. It's a horrible lot in life.