Quotes of: Preoccupations Keyword

It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like him, they deal with the verities...

The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

Sidney Poitier

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

Tori Amos

What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned with people’s political situations as a whole — rather than narrowly abstract, concerned only with the immediate interpersonal relations...

Literary Theory: An Introduction

A preoccupation with power - black power, student power, flower power, poor power, 'the power structure' - is the striking aspect of the American political scene at the moment. Oddly enough, obsession with power goes hand in hand with a fear of power...

Carey McWilliams

They've got organizations for people like me with stupid preoccupations.

Work

Death is the only serious preoccupation in life.

The Count of Monte Cristo

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

Roger Bannister

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Penelope Lively

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Nicolas Chamfort

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

Freda Adler

In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clea...

Marcus Buckingham

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

Michael Shermer

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

Steven Spielberg

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

Oscar Wilde

Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.

Peter Mandelson

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

Robert Morgan

To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.

Nancy Travis

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

Benedict Cumberbatch

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Arthur Erickson

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Bertrand Russell