Johann Johannsson

Sometimes you write music to a script or while a film is being edited. Sometimes I write without seeing any images, but that's rare. The approach is often based on practical decisions, but I'm interested in the narrative and physical space that music can occupy in a film or play.

Icelander Composer

Howard Jacobson

With 'J', at a deep base level, there is still some comedy, but that masculinist voice that had driven so many of my novels I suddenly did not want to occupy. I wasn't reneging on it; I just didn't want to do it.

British Novelist

Gary Zukav

Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.

American Author

Noam Chomsky

Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.

American Activist

Hale White

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

British Writer

John le Carre

I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.

English Writer

Jane Welsh Carlyle

The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.

Scottish Writer

George Bernard Shaw

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Irish Playwright

Felipe VI of Spain

There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.

Spanish Royalty

Thomas Aquinas

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Italian Theologian

Use 'occupy' to express the connection someone has with a place.

Place Association

Implies long-term presence, not just a temporary stay.

Duration Implication

Indicates something exclusively fills up a space or time.

Exclusive Use

Highlights that when occupied, space is not available for others.

Preclusive Nature

Conveys domination or control over a location.

Power Dynamics

Often refers to a historical event or military action.

Temporal Aspect

Associated with keeping minds or bodies actively engaged.

Activity Involvement

Suggests being absorbed in an activity to avoid boredom or stress.

Distraction Potential

 So you have people who are like caricatures of alphas, really coming into the room, they get right into the middle of the room before class even starts, like they really want to occupy space. When they sit down, they're sort of spread out. They raise their hands like this. You have other people who are virtually collapsing

Your body language may...

 They do this by making sure we have enough energy and are protected from feeling pain, while shutting down nonessential systems, like critical thought. Feeling pain-free and energized, while not getting caught up in worrisome thoughts that normally occupy our brains, that all sounds great,

Why is being scared so...

 where you can see all these excited young people protesting around the world, occupying this, occupying that. Are they going to become the world wave? Are they going to find their skills, their enthusiasm, and their strategy to find what they really want and push for the reform,

Srdja Popovic: How to...

 and going to sleep. Sleep occupies nearly a third of our lives, but many of us give surprisingly little attention and care to it. This neglect is often the result of a major misunderstanding. Sleep isn't lost time, or just a way to rest when all our important work is done.

The benefits of a good...

 at its heart is the killer whale founded just about every part of our one world ocean the killer whale is the most broadly distributed mammal in the world apart from us near shore off shore polar or tropical they occupy a singular position in the food web without concern

Killer whale society PIPE...

 has now occupied all the perimeter of the building because that's where the pick stations were. They sorted it out for themselves. So I'll conclude with just one final video that shows how this comes to bear on the pick worker's actual day in the life of.

Mick Mountz: What...

 ecological niche that dragonflies occupy dragonflies are intimately connected with freshwater ecosystems and it's the strategies and adaptations that dragonflies implore teach phase of their lifecycle but make them such a success in this habitat

The Secret World of...

 secret in their courtship good looks are everything but after her flight she's too occupied in preening to care but her admirer has ways to get himself noticed she sees more subtleties of color than

Budgie Courtship Ritual...

 to occupy the neurons that would otherwise deliver the tinnitus signal. Practiced alongside counseling, these interventions allow people to re-evaluate their relationship with tinnitus.

What’s that ringing in...

 Some of the luckier ones occupy a more sheltered valley where a few trees have managed to take root. Morning fog condensing on leaves is an important source of water.