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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings. – Cormac McCarthy	added by JokerGem 1 year ago
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. – RAS CARDO REGGAE	added by anonymous 4 years ago
When parents use restrictive (e.g. keep food from children) or pressure-to-eat feeding practices (e.g. try to get kids to eat more food), children have an increased risk of being overweight, when a new child is introduced, parents may relax their preoccupation with the older child’s eating behaviors, allowing the older child to respond to their own satiety cues and self-regulate their eating. – Jerica Berge	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The coffins show the skill and care with which the Egyptians prepared for the afterlife, to us, for whom death is a taboo subject, this seems like a morbid preoccupation. In fact, it was an obsession with life and an urgent wish to ensure its perfected continuation. – Helen Strudwick	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Some of my students take improv classes months prior to their college interviews, this is not intended to make them funnier. Rather, such training allows them to learn to be in the moment more effectively. Interviewers can sense preoccupation. Instead, embrace the moment. – Daniel Riseman	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. – Nicolas Chamfort	added by anonymous 9 years ago
To me, the irony of this involvement with size, as I observed earlier, is the unwillingness or inability of so many Americans to identify themselves with something as vast as the United States. Bigger cars, bigger parking lots, bigger corporate structures, bigger farms, bigger drug stores, bigger supermarkets, bigger motion-picture screens. The tangible and the functional expand, while the intangible and the beautiful shrink. Left to wither is the national purpose, national educational needs, literature and theater, and our critical faculties. The national dialogue is gradually being lost in a froth of misleading self-congratulation and cliche. National needs and interests are slowly being submerged by the national preoccupation with the irrelevant. – J. William Fulbright	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self. – Iris Murdoch	added by anonymous 10 years ago
That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it. – Elie Wiesel	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something. – Philip Saltier	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection. – Sidney Poitier	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Play has been man's most useful preoccupation. – Frank Caplan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can. What your co-workers say about you, what your opponent is doing -- that doesn't matter. – Jay Leno	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others. – Kahlil Gibran	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings.

– Cormac McCarthy

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

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.

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

When parents use restrictive (e.g. keep food from children) or pressure-to-eat feeding practices (e.g. try to get kids to eat more food), children have an increased risk of being overweight, when a new child is introduced, parents may relax their preoccupation with the older child’s eating behaviors, allowing the older child to respond to their own satiety cues and self-regulate their eating.

– Jerica Berge

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The coffins show the skill and care with which the Egyptians prepared for the afterlife, to us, for whom death is a taboo subject, this seems like a morbid preoccupation. In fact, it was an obsession with life and an urgent wish to ensure its perfected continuation.

– Helen Strudwick

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Some of my students take improv classes months prior to their college interviews, this is not intended to make them funnier. Rather, such training allows them to learn to be in the moment more effectively. Interviewers can sense preoccupation. Instead, embrace the moment.

– Daniel Riseman

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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

– Nicolas Chamfort

added by anonymous
9 years ago

To me, the irony of this involvement with size, as I observed earlier, is the unwillingness or inability of so many Americans to identify themselves with something as vast as the United States. Bigger cars, bigger parking lots, bigger corporate structures, bigger farms, bigger drug stores, bigger supermarkets, bigger motion-picture screens. The tangible and the functional expand, while the intangible and the beautiful shrink. Left to wither is the national purpose, national educational needs, literature and theater, and our critical faculties. The national dialogue is gradually being lost in a froth of misleading self-congratulation and cliche. National needs and interests are slowly being submerged by the national preoccupation with the irrelevant.

– J. William Fulbright

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

– Iris Murdoch

added by anonymous
10 years ago

That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

– Elie Wiesel

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

– Philip Saltier

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

– Eric Hoffer