Allan Gurganus

I think it's a false distinction to say that conversation and composition are separate. Because even as we speak, I'm seeing. Every interview is different, and I'm finding new ways to talk about ancient preoccupations. And I sometimes come on something that's immensely helpful and valuable. Plus I like the sensation of conversation.

American Novelist

Annalee Newitz

Unlike economics, whose sole preoccupation in our finance-obsessed era is the near-term profit motive, history offers a way to place our tiny lifespans in a narrative that spans dozens of generations - perhaps even reaching into a future where capitalism is no longer our dominant form of economic organization.

American Journalist

Andrew Motion

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.

English Poet

Larry Harvey

Our preoccupation has always been to craft space in such a way as to induce social interactions that would in turn generate a sense of community and a culture, but starting from the very immediate issue of how action influences perception.

American Celebrity

Geraldine Brooks

I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying.

Australian Journalist

Saint Bernard

Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.

Saint

Neri Oxman

I approach the world as a whole by taking an integrative approach, not a world of parts, and I like to bring different fields and disciplines together. The same is true with my preoccupation with cultural expression.

American Architect

Lewis Thomas

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.

American Scientist

Freda Adler

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

American Educator

Elie Wiesel

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Use 'preoccupation' when referring to someone's hobbies or interests that take up a lot of their attention.

Interests and Hobbies

'Preoccupation' doesn't always mean worry; it can be a neutral term for what occupies the mind.

Not Always Negative

It's appropriate to use 'preoccupation' in professional contexts to describe focus on work or projects.

Professionally Used

Use 'preoccupation' when the level of attention given to something is intense, excluding other thoughts.

Intensity of Focus

Often implies a sense of worry or anxiety that dominates the mind.

Worry and Anxiety

Can suggest a mental absence, where the person seems disconnected from the current environment.

Mental Absence

 But these were not the major preoccupations of my day. It was just as critical for me to be the first person in at a cafe nearby with extension cords and chargers to juice my multiple devices. I started to prospect under the benches of bakeries and the entrances of pastry shops for plug points.

Abha Dawesar: Life in...

 Obsessions can manifest as fears of contamination and illness, worries about harming others, or preoccupations with numbers, patterns, morality, or sexual identity. And compulsions can range from excessive cleaning or double checking, to the fastidious arrangement of objects,

Debunking the myths of...

 They have it forced upon them. And again, as I told you, if they have a caring family and good work life, then they can lead normal and fulfilled lives. Their identity doesn't change. Is this business about appearance and preoccupation with it

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 measuring pie with pots and pans but what I wanted to show this to you for was because when I look at this picture and it helps me trace back what's become a bit of a professional preoccupation for me okay see my two gorgeous sisters

When technology...

 Well, that would be fine if it was just a secondary preoccupation in life. But now, if it is something that is going to determine the quality of every instant of our life, then we better know what it is, have some clearer idea.

The habits of happiness...

 is positively scathing about our preoccupation with matter itself. We have this tendency to think that only solid, material things are really things at all. Waves of electromagnetic fluctuation in a vacuum seem unreal.

Why the universe seems...

 food is still by far the biggest preoccupation but instead of just being fed on demand the chicks are now being made to work for it the parent forcing its chicks to chase for a feed encourages competition where the

Baby Penguin Annoys...

 less this time? Are you worried about how crucial is that to getting us through this? I mean, my preoccupation is, in our mandate, in my area of responsibility, bring the membership together.

How to rebuild the...

 We have been only seeing one side of war. We have only been discussing and consumed with high-level preoccupations over troop levels, drawdown timelines,

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 the preoccupations of the powerful prophets in the streets the preoccupations in the corridors of power