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Occupy Yourself Quotes

This collection holds 12 occupy yourself quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Fyodor Dostoevsky, W. Somerset Maugham and Alexander Pope.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky / Novelist

Above all, don't lie to yourself.

Alexander Pope / Poet

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Ovid / Poet

Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.

Frederick Lenz / Author

To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.

Ignatius Of Loyola / Hermit

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

James Purefoy / Actor

When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.

W. Somerset Maugham / Playwright

For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

Robert Cormier / Author

As much as there is joy in writing, there's always the little bit of terror to keep you on edge, on your toes. It is a strange way to occupy yourself - to enjoy your life on a daily basis. There is no guarantee that something great is going to come next.

Jock Sturges / Photographer

My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body and fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it.

Maya Angelou / Author

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

Fyodor Dostoevsky / Novelist

Above all, do not lie to yourself.

W. Somerset Maugham / Playwright

As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers for the middle-aged or elderly writer whose thoughts should more properly be turned to graver matters, occupying himself with the trivial concerns of imaginary people.

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