Quotes About Preoccupation

When you think of somebody all the time it means one of two things - either you hate their guts or you like them a lot.

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

I have never been able to bear people who are obsessed with beauty.

Everyone needed an obsession.

Kindness consistently preoccupies us, and yet most of us are unable to live a life guided by it.

The Jews played a major part in perpetuating the hostility between the Aws and the Khazraj in order to keep them preoccupied with it. This earned the Jews the title 'Foxes', as they were called by the Arabs.

It's nice to have something else going on when a book comes out so you're not just sitting by the phone, waiting for things to happen. You don't want to be the guy Googling himself all day.

I used to be obsessed with 'Boss.'

Create a character with an obsession, then follow.

He became preoccupied with the inevitable limits imposed by time and circumstance. In short, his nationalistic ideology began to be affected by his personal frustration, his increasing fatalism, and the sense that his time was running out.

My mother didn't believe in germs but I did. Germs are something they made up to distract people from what they should really be worried about, she said. Germs are natural. It's the things people do you have to worry about.

His mind, shrinking from reality, ran for safety along these unimportant details.

Because of its increasing triviality, everyday life has gradually become our central preoccupation

crime has become the preoccupation of genuises in this technotyrannical twittering society. There are those who will show -a love/hate relationship with the rest of the populus.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

Religion is religion, however you wrap it, and like Quell says, a preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one.

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.

Worry is to human beings … what a condom is to a man with erectile dysfunction.

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.

To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.

We were too sick of the case to talk about it anymore but too obsessed with it to talk about anything else.

It is only a matter of time before his brother's presence fades from his memory, and the immediate reality of bearing all humanity's loathing becomes once more his daily preoccupation.

Obsession can be a great thing or it can also destroy lives.