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My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'
Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.
It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.
Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can.
In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.
I'm not one of those people for which politics is my sole preoccupation.
Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts.
My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that.
At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave.
Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend.
I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.
But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding.
Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.
The Zionists'...main preoccupation is not to save Jews alive out of Europe but to get Jews into Palestine.
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
For most of the countries I visit, getting affordable energy in the hands of the people is a preoccupation.
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.
A preoccupation with job title is an immediate giveaway that someone's priorities are not in line with the company's.
Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.
Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.
This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.
The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.
I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.
When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.
That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story 'The Lady With the Little Dog.'
All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.
Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather than the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists.
And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.
Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
My preoccupation has been from the very beginning that I believe that the "Brexit" referendum result is the most disastrous peacetime result that we've seen in Britain.