Preoccupation Quotes - Page 7

• Mi mayor preocupación es la pregunta: "¿Qué es la realidad?" Muchos de mis relatos y novelas tratan de estados psicóticos o inducidos por drogas, mediante los cuales puedo presentar el concepto de un multiverso en lugar de un universo. La música y la sociología son temas de mis novelas, también las tendencias políticas radicales; en particular he escrito sobre el fascismo y mi miedo a él.

  Philip K. Dick

  Realidad, Política, Droga

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• The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Deterioration, Gone, Before Marriage

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• ...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.

  Wilkie Collins

  Mother, Vegetables, Mind

  Wilkie Collins (2016). “The Woman in White”, p.53, Wilkie Collins

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• La gente ociosa suele aburrirse y la gente aburrida, a menos que duerma mucho, es cruel. No es casualidad que el aburrimiento y la crueldad sean grandes preocupaciones en nuestra época.

  Renata Adler

  Sleep, Blessing, Boredom

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• It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.

  Aldous Huxley

  World, Regard, Mines

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• …but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Thinking, Long, Training

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• Siempre me ha parecido que amar activamente le salva a uno de una preocupación morbosa por los defectos de la sociedad.

  Alan Paton

  Morbid, Found, Shortcomings

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• The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Memories, Past, Self

  Fuente: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.

  Al Pacino

  Sex, Perspective

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods," such as food and fuel, where the utilization and consumption of the good are tightly bound together in a single act or event. ... any economy in the consumption of fuel that enables us to maintain warmth or to generate power with lessened consumption again leaves us better off. ... there is no great value in consumption itself.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Knights, Together, Events

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• Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.

  Ana Monnar

  Worry, Too Much, Sometimes

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• Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

  Sydney J. Harris

  People, Genealogy

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• We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that the oft-noted reaction against the subject is not an unfortunate rebellion against a difficult subject, but a perfectly proper response to a preoccupation with triviality.

  Lynn Steen

  Believe, School, Intellectual

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• El periodismo sólo nos cuenta lo que hacen los hombres; es la ficción la que nos dice lo que piensan y, más aún, lo que sienten. Si una nueva teoría científica encuentra el alma de un hombre en sus sueños, al menos no debería dejar de lado sus sueños diurnos. Y toda ficción es sólo un diario de sueños diurnos en lugar de días. Y esta profunda preocupación de las mentes de los hombres por ciertas cosas siempre acaba teniendo un efecto incluso en la expresión externa de la época.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sueño, Hombres, Pensamiento

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• When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave.

  Alistair Begg

  Grace

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• When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere left to go but where we are. To connect with the present moment is to begin to appreciate the beauty of true simplicity.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Past, Appreciate

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• Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

  Cornel West

  Justice, Reelection, Politician

  "Dr. Cornel West’s Prognosis for the Country’s Prospects". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Claves, sencillez, equilibrio

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• If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone - employers and employees - from the issues that really matter.

  Alfie Kohn

  Issues, Doe, Pay

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• Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend.

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Focus, Sometimes, Should

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• The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice. It is perhaps impossible to understand the nature of a mass movement unless it is recognized that their chief preoccupation is to foster, perfect and perpetuate a facility for united action and self-sacrifice.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mean, Sacrifice, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1980). "El verdadero creyente"

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• That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of 'bread and circuses' can compensate for the damage done-these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence-because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Silence, Soul, Humanity

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). "Lo pequeño es hermoso"

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• The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

  Walter Lippmann

  Idols, Society, Looks

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.15, Transaction Publishers

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• ¿Por qué has de preocuparte de si Dios quiere que llegues a la patria celestial por el camino del desierto o por el de los campos, cuando tanto por el uno como por el otro se llega igualmente a la bienaventurada Eternidad? Aleja de ti la excesiva preocupación que surge de las pruebas que el buen Dios quiere visitarte.

  Pío de Pietrelcina

  Bendito, Hogar, Preocupación

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

  Tori Amos

  Something New, Findings, Felt

  "Portrait of the artist: Tori Amos, musician" by Nosheen Iqbal, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2010.

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