#preoccupied

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#duties #great #great ideas #ideas #performs

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

— Sheryl Crow

#i #lot #music #opposed #people

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. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#art #becomes #beyond #boundaries #breaking

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not. ↗

— Betty Ford

#alcoholic #because #going #i #know

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

— Robert Jay Lifton

#i #preoccupied #survivor #through #very

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#am #any #big #control #convinced

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. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#been #behave #democratic #fair #focus

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#deadlines #i #just #other #preoccupied

But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#advice #beautiful #because #become #direction