Quotes with over-preoccupation

Quotes 981 till 1000 of 1100.

  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Alexander Herzen What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Ted Engstrom What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?
    Ted Engstrom
    American Christian leader (1916 - 2006)
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  • Barry McCaffrey What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Ben Affleck What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and Internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the public image of somebody.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bill Griffith What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Barry Commoner What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Diller What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Bob Iger What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
    Bob Iger
    American business executive (1951 - )
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  • Casey Affleck What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
    As quoted in Bridges to Infinity : The Human Side of Mathematics (1983)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Arthur Erickson What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Barry Larkin What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.
    Barry Larkin
    American baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Caspar David Friedrich What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only forty-five degrees. And furthermore, what is in Nature separated by large spaces, is compressed into a cramped space and overfills and over-satiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer.
    Caspar David Friedrich
    German landscape painter (1774 - 1840)
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  • Bertolt Brecht What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
    Mother Courage and Her Children The Sergeant, in Scene 1
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • C. S. Lewis What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Barry Manilow What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Barry Diller What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let's just grab money from, quote, the wealthy'... The issue is the tax code's rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Robert Stone What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.
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