Top 11 Occupy Yourself Quotes

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

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

Ignatius of Loyola

Occupy Yourself, Imperfection, Contemplating

Above all, don't lie to yourself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Respect, Lying, Occupy Yourself

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.96, Clap Publishing, LLC.

Above all, do not lie to yourself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Respect, Lying, Occupy Yourself

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.44, Macmillan

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

Ovid

Occupy Yourself, Way, Harm

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

James Purefoy

Occupy Yourself, People, Upset

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The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Alexander Pope

Men, Occupy Yourself, Literature

An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 1 (1733) See Charron 1

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.

W. Somerset Maugham

Real, Men, Occupy Yourself

W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers for the middle-aged or elderly writer whose thoughts should more properly be turned to graver matters, occupying himself with the trivial concerns of imaginary people.

W. Somerset Maugham

Real, Men, Occupy Yourself

"Cakes And Ale".

As much as there is joy in writing, there's always the little bit of terror to keep you on edge, on your toes. It is a strange way to occupy yourself - to enjoy your life on a daily basis. There is no guarantee that something great is going to come next.

Robert Cormier

Writing, Guarantees That, Occupy Yourself

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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.

Jock Sturges

Occupy Yourself, Body, Might

"Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.