Preoccupation Quotes
This government's preoccupation with race has nothing to do with empowering those disadvantaged by apartheid. It has everything to do with empowering a small elite through cronyism and patronage. - Helen Zille
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. - Penelope Lively
There are a combination of forces which could be positive, on net. The market's been held hostage by the election and Iraq, and those may at least temporarily fade as preoccupations if better economic news takes hold. - William Hummer
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
The electric power industry's preoccupation with passing through its biggest single-year fuel increases in history is creating a strong chance that U.S. power markets will not be able to successfully address resource adequacy, resulting in power shortages in some areas of the country within the next five years. - Lawrence Makovich
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
Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York. - Wesley Morris
Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation. - Louis De Bernieres
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action. - Daniel Goleman
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. - Chamfort
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