#occupied

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#action #any #bigger #brain #cell

I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research. ↗

— Douglass North

#i #impression #left #life #my life

The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990. ↗

— Douglass North

#development #during #economic #explore #framework

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#gave #hours #i #i think #illustrated

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#every #every day #freedom #must #occupied

Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself. ↗

— Amos Oz

#coastal #conflicts #eight #far #fiery

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#does #dying #itself #life #living

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#cerebral #intestine #mind #minds #occupied

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#god #important #individual #individual responsibility #mind

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London. ↗

— John le Carre

#intelligence #james #knew #little #london