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«The workaholic maintains a frantic schedule. He is consistently preoccupied with performance. He finds it difficult to refuse additional responsibilities. He is unable to relax. If someone you know exhibits these characteristics, he or she is probably a workaholic.»
Author: Bill Hybels
| Keywords:
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«A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties»
Author: Harriet Martineau
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
performs, preoccupied, preoccupies, preoccupy
«Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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Individuality,
Life,
Trouble
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«My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the t»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| Keywords:
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«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»
Author: Marianne Williamson
(Author, Lecturer)
| Keywords:
preoccupied, preoccupies, preoccupy, stimuli
«Cultures contain many cues and inducements to dissuade the individual from approaching ultimate limits, in much the same way that a special warning strip of land around the edge of a baseball field lets a player know that he is about to run into a concrete wall when he is preoccupied with catching the ball. The wider that strip of land and the more sensitive the player is to the changing composition of the ground under his feet as he pursues the ball, the more effective the warning. Romanticizing or lionizing as individualistic those people who disregard social cues and inducements increases the danger of head-on collisions with inherent social limits. Decrying various forms of social disapproval is in effect narrowing the warning strip.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn. In Russia and the Orient the monarch has still a considerable influence in public affairs and in the disposition of the human head, but in western Europe political administration is mostly entrusted to his ministers, he being somewhat preoccupied with reflections relating to the status of his own head.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
| Keywords:
fabrication, fearing, god-fearing, preoccupied, preoccupies, preoccupy
«Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
break in, preoccupied, preoccupies, preoccupy
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