Preoccupying Quotes & Sayings

If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you. — Natalie Goldberg

Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

In some respects Abbott proved to be the id of Australia's modern conservative movement: hyper-adversarial, willing to occupy itself in opposition to whatever social issues were preoccupying the left. Owing more to American political culture than the British inheritance Abbott claimed to value, contemporary Australian conservatism makes the grave error of believing in things other than power and stability. — Peter Van Onselen

I can't talk. I can't walk. I can't feed myself or take myself to the bathroom. Big bummer. — Sharon M. Draper

We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes the winning and losing, the succeeding and failing, the "I will achieve." All that stuff becomes so preoccupying, particularly if you're born with low self-esteem, or no sense of yourself, or even if you're just born in the consumer culture. It's very powerful. — Eve Ensler

When I was super young, I had an Atari and used to play 'Space Invaders.' Then I fell in love with 'Mario Bros.,' 'Sonic the Hedgehog' and 'Yoshi' on Super Nintendo. I was quite a bit of a gamer as a kid when I think about it. — Amber Rose

I went seven years between 2002 and 2009 without winning. Then I did win in '09. — Matt Kuchar

Come find me," Leo put in, his gaze full of understanding. "Whenever you want. I'll be here. — Aimee Friedman

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes. — Will Self

He's the type of man who will end up dying in his own arms. — Mamie Van Doren

A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others. — Mordecai Richler

I want to tell her that this isn't 'love'. that 'love' doesn't stay the same, it changes like we do, it is shaped by our experiences, by what we do, who we meet, what we learn. I'd like to explain that falling in love now is not how it'll be forever, and even if you stay with the same boy for the rest of your life, this incarnation of love won't stay the same, it never does. — Dorothy Koomson

What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrow's ideas. — Julius Genachowski