Top 30 Preoccupied Quotes

I do see a lot of young artists who write records or sacrifice records, because there are a lot of older artists who are preoccupied; they don’t have as much time as they used to to be in the studio.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

I like to peruse the Full Contact Poker online forums to read and comment on posts about interesting poker hands and whether they were played properly. I find that many of the contributors consistently suffer from the same problem: they are far too preoccupied with statistically insignificant aspects of a poker hand.

Disciples who are steadfast and immovable do not become fanatics or extremists, are not overzealous, and are not preoccupied with misguided gospel hobbies.

Yes, I’ve been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

The world is preoccupied with dissecting, analyzing and prognosticating on the blockchain’s future; technologists, entrepreneurs, and enterprises are wondering if it is to be considered vitamin or poison.

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you’re not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn’t planned or counted on.

I lose things. I am preoccupied. I am misty. Eyeglasses? I go through eyeglasses like tissue.

The day I don’t attend to my nostrils is the day I will have forsworn that world and become a different person. Someone otherwise preoccupied. Someone who couldn’t care less what anyone thinks of his appearance – someone for whom the material life has lost its appeal.

When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there’s no story.

Just the fact that I’ve lived more, and I’m not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it’s not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself.

I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.

If you feel like you’re doing terrible in a scene, that usually means that you’re not listening because you’re too preoccupied with yourself… you’re not listening to your scene partner. If you listen, you’re naturally going to get that response that the camera’s going to pick up because you just react.

I am not preoccupied about my future.

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

Many older people I know are focused on the past. When they talk about the future, they are, quite understandably, preoccupied with the hassles and obstacles of their increasing age.

We all need a government that solves our real problems and is not preoccupied with itself.

The Labour perspective is often very preoccupied with either the super-rich or those who don’t have work – but doesn’t have nearly enough to say to those who do have work, on incomes that may not mean they get benefits or tax credits, but are not well off people.

There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I’m not preoccupied with the opinions of others.

I don’t think we’re any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it’s fun to write about the inevitable – you’re alive, and you’re going to die.

It’s great if you can find what you love to do. Finding it is one thing, but then to be able to practise that and be preoccupied with that is another.

It’s the word ‘artful’; it’s such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it – I’ve been preoccupied with the word ‘artful’ and the twin notions of ‘cornucopia’ and ‘pickpocket’ it suggests for quite some time.

A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I’m wearing as opposed to the music.

Everywhere I go, everyone I talk with, everyone I think about – their salvation is what is on my mind. I love fellowship with Christians, but I can’t become preoccupied with the pleasure of fellowship when I know that sinners are sinking into hell.

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

We’re so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we’re inadvertently excusing them from growing up.