Quotes About Preoccupation

I followed after her with a sort of dazed sense of lost time, delighted by her preoccupation, how oblivious she seemed of the minutes flying.

And what we think about can consume us if

If you keep things in the front of your mind, you worry at them like a hound chomping a dead rabbit.

Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.

the practice of solitude had given him a love for it, as happens with every big thing which we have begun by fearing, because we knew it to be incompatible with smaller things to which we clung, and of which it does not so much deprive us as it detaches us from them. Before we experience it, our whole preoccupation is to know to what extent we can reconcile it with certain pleasures which cease to be pleasures as soon as we have experienced it.

In Lucas's opinion, a good part of the Congress seemed to suffer from the same psychological defects that afflicted Taryn Grant—or that Taryn Grant enjoyed, depending on your point of view. Their bloated self-importance, their disregard of anything but their own goals, their preoccupation with power . . .

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

It is a cosmic joke. Preoccupation with survival has set the stage for extinction.

And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.

As is usually true of a man of one idea, he became obsessed.

But it isn't silly, this preoccupation with small time units. One thing late or early can disrupt everything around it, and the disturbance tuns outward in bands like the waves from a dropped stone in a quiet pool.

Without Obsession, Life Is Nothing

What consumes your mind, controls your life.

We lack the sense of our own visibility as we lack that of distances, imagining as quite close to us the interested attention of people who on the contrary never give us a thought, and not suspecting that we are at the same moment the sole preoccupation of others.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

Why you have such bourgeois preoccupation with all personal history?' 'Because it's important... it defines... it helps us understand... because we can learn... Oh, I don't know.

Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

When we ruminate, we become fruitlessly preoccupied with the fact that we are unhappy and with the causes, meanings, and consequences of our unhappiness.

Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.

Child labour was the norm. It is not a problem, or even a category, that most Romans would have understood. The invention of 'childhood' and the regulation of what work 'children' could do only came fifteen hundred years later and is still a peculiarly Western preoccupation.

It's nothing serious," he said. "It's just an obsession.

A new fear began to grip me, almost as powerful as the fear of what could befall us on the mountain: the fear of running out of reading material.

All interest in every other topic" seemed to be "eaten up" by the slavery question.