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Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.
— Marcus Buckingham
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
— Nicolas Chamfort
My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'
— Philip K. Dick
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings.
— Cormac McCarthy
The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice ... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.
— Norman Cousins
I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.
— Tori Amos
Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
— Khalil Gibran
I have always found that actively lovingsaves one from a morbid preoccupation
with the shortcomings of society. — Alan Paton
Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear.
— Carlos Slim
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.
— Leonard Ravenhill
He was filled with embarrassment: embarrassment for the human race, its preoccupation with money, it love of swindle.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
For many of the churchly, the life of the spirit is reduced to a dull preoccupation with getting to Heaven.
— Wendell Berry
Because of its increasing triviality, everyday life has gradually become our central preoccupation
— Raoul Vaneigem
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
— Wynton Marsalis
Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with - turning the other cheek isn't my trip.
— Karl Lagerfeld
Joy is all there is. The rest is a preoccupation of the ego, unworthy of your holy mind.
— Doreen Virtue
Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.
— Wesley Morris
Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
— Oscar Wilde
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.
— Richard K. Morgan
In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.
— Roger Scruton
Death is the only serious preoccupation in life.
— Alexandre Dumas
The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.
— Edmund Morgan
Traffic is more of the in between time where we think more about where we are going than where we are at the moment.
— Tom Vanderbilt
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.
— Sidney Poitier
Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality.
— Jeffrey R. Holland
We preoccupy ourselves with what we had - or what we want to have - at the expense of what we have.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.
— Jean Renoir
Creativity isn't an occupation, it's a preoccupation.
— Gordon Torr
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
— Steven Spielberg
False humility and morbid introspection are, in fact, the opposite of brokenness, as they reveal a preoccupation with self, rather than Christ.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
— James D. Watson
I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
— Al Pacino
The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.
— Eckhart Tolle
Overblown responsibility was a part of my preoccupation with myself.
— Susan Vreeland
There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.
— Kerry Gleeson
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
— Penelope Lively
A large part of many people's lives is consumed by an obsessive preoccupation with things. This
— Eckhart Tolle
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
— John Ortberg
You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.
— Habib Bourguiba
In acceptance, there is a decreased preoccupation with "doingness," a growing focus on the quality of beingness itself,
— David R. Hawkins
The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.
— Marc Riboud
Our preoccupation with goals, results, and the quick fix has separated us from our own experiences.
— George Leonard
Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.
— Cornel West
Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
— Sydney J. Harris
Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.
— Ana Monnar
this preoccupation with order, control,
— Richard Rohr
Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.
— Louis De Bernieres
It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.
— Roger Bannister
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.
— Katharine Whitehorn
Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.
— Richard Llewellyn
Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.
— Rachel Kushner
Unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or
— F Scott Fitzgerald
At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.
— Edmund Wilson
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
— Bertrand Russell
The Zionists' ... main preoccupation is not to save Jews alive out of Europe but to get Jews into Palestine.
— Richard Crossman
Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend.
— Elaine S. Dalton
preoccupation with fantasies of success; exhibitionism and insatiable attention-getting maneuvers;
— Joan D. Chittister
People don't paint for the hell of it. It's a deeply seated thing - a preoccupation - the whole of one's life.
— Roger De Grey
