Quotes About Preoccupation

preoccupation with fantasies of success; exhibitionism and insatiable attention-getting maneuvers;

unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

El mundo se derrumba. Y, desde las ruinas tu te obsesionas en darle vueltas y vueltas al instante anterior al terremoto.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

In high Beta, the outer world appears to be more real than the inner world. Our attention and conscious awareness primarily focus on everything that makes up the external environment. Thus, we identify more readily with those material elements: we criticize everyone we know, we judge the way our bodies look, we're overfocused on our problems, we cling to things we own out of fear that we might lose them, we busy ourselves with places we have to go, and we're preoccupied with time.

These emotional addictions cause us to become preoccupied by whatever we think might be causing the upset in our environment—whether it be "some one" or "some thing"—and as a result the survival gene switches on. Now we're living in a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Most people spend the majority of their time preoccupied with negative thoughts and feelings. Is it likely that most of the things that are happening in our present circumstances are negative? Obviously not. Negativity runs so high because we are either living in anticipation of stress or re-experiencing it through a memory, so most of our thoughts and feelings are driven by those strong hormones of stress and survival.

How has God faded out of the mind of this age? Well, the age, like thoughtless children, believed that the toyland of material wealth was a sufficient world; then God faded out, smothered by preoccupation.

ibas a ser ejecutado dentro de una semana, tu mente se centraría exclusivamente en ello, y no podrías pensar en otra cosa.

The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.

I love watching documentaries on people like 'clean freaks,' because it's just so interesting to me for some reason.

The General's preoccupation with electronic gadgetry irked Randall. The world had become a wondrous fabric of instant communication, linking millions of people in the same old abundance of problems and poverty of solutions.

From now on, I shall only have eyes for my right foot!

You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, "What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?

Those [who] assiduously fabricate for themselves a self-conscious originality, and after having made a choice of certain practices, their principal preoccupation is never to depart from them, to remain for ever on their guard and allow themselves not a moment's relaxation.

The things that you think about the most will irrationally rise in importance in your mind.

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

Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.

Tendency to worry needlessly, endlessly; tendency to scan the horizon looking for something to worry about, alternating with inattention to or disregard for actual dangers. Worry becomes what attention turns into when it isn't focused on some task.

It was an old fear, a fear that has never left me: the fear that, in losing pieces of her life, mine lost intensity and importance. And the fact that she didn't answer emphasized that preoccupation. However hard I tried in my letters to communicate the privilege of the days in Ischia, my river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full.

There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

Un golpe de suerte no es más que la raíz de la siguiente preocupación.

Selfishness seldom has to do with reaching for the biggest piece of cake on the plate; rather, it is preoccupation with our selves.