Jesse Jackson

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.

American Activist

Henri Nouwen

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

Dutch Clergyman

Bruno Dumont

When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story.

French Director

Talib Kweli

You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.

American Musician

Thalia

There were a lot of little triggers that made me realize that life is now; life is happening while we're preoccupied with stupidities. Of course, growing. Of course, becoming a mother and understanding life from another perspective.

Mexican Musician

Jacqueline Bisset

Of course, you see your body changing as you age, but it's more important to live than be too preoccupied with that sort of thing. I think ultimately what people care about in other people is the energy, the spirit.

English Actress

Marianne Williamson

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.

American Author

Alexis de Tocqueville

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

French Historian

Richard N. Haass

It is difficult to think of a foreign policy issue that preoccupies and polarizes world opinion as much as the Palestinian question.

American Diplomat

Natalie Cole

As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids.

Imagine 'preoccupy' as if your mind is a room filled with thoughts of one concern.

Mental Occupancy

'Preoccupy' can range from a mild distraction to an intense focus on a subject.

Intensity Variation

'Preoccupy' often implies a prolonged period. It's not just a fleeting thought.

Time Span

'Preoccupy' suggests that little else can enter someone's mind when faced with dominant thoughts.

Exclusivity

Your concentration on the preoccupying thought is so strong that other tasks may suffer.

Strength of Focus

It often carries a slightly negative tone, suggesting anxiety or undue worry.

Negative Connotation

 in terms of solving these small solutions. Because the people who can actually solve them actually are too powerful and too preoccupied with something they think of as "strategy" to actually solve them. I tried this exercise recently, talking about banking. They said, "Can we do an advertising campaign?

Rory Sutherland: Sweat...

 And I think one of the problems with classical economics is, it's absolutely preoccupied with reality. And reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness. Why, for example, are pensioners much happier than the young unemployed? Both of them, after all, are in exactly the same stage of life.

Rory Sutherland:...

 one of the problems with classical economics is it's absolutely preoccupied with reality and reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness why for example a pensioners much happier than the young unemployed both of them after all are in exactly the same state of life

Perspective is...

 We were motivated by how far and how fast we could progress, and we thought that our route to the top would look something a bit like this. And in those first few years of work, we were all about promotions and pay rises. We were preoccupied by the positions that we held

Sarah Ellis and Helen...

 and personal freedom, and these are characteristics that we feel are contributing to almost epidemic levels of this problem. So let me give you an example. Young people today are more preoccupied with the attainment of the perfect life and lifestyle.

Our dangerous obsession...

 And I think this speaks to a spectrum that goes from complete self-absorption, to noticing, to empathy and to compassion. And the simple fact is, if we are focused on ourselves, if we're preoccupied, as we so often are throughout the day,

Daniel Goleman: Why...

 his mind, his attention, was thousands of miles away. He was gripped with suffering. His mind was worried and preoccupied and had stressful memories and, really, dread for his future. And I'm really glad that he didn't take his life.

How to tame your...

 jennifer crocker examines our social motivations of ecosystem and ecosystem in the ego system we are preoccupied with our self-worth both in our own eyes and in other people's eyes and then the ecosystem

Why It Actually Might Be...

 with the nut raider preoccupied he can either eat it or bury it secretly but the thief hasn't abandoned her life of crime spy squirrel has a new knot one with a camera

Sneaky Squirrels Steal...

 mouth with the nut raider preoccupied he can either eat it or bury it secretly but the thief hasn't abandoned her life