Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.
My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that.
This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.
At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.
But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.
I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.
Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can.
That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.
The Zionists'. . . main preoccupation is not to save Jews alive out of Europe but to get Jews into Palestine.
The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.
The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.