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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.