#preoccupation

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#designer #forgive #forgiveness #karl-lagerfeld #past

Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#directly #europe #needs #our #own

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#discovering #elementary #experience #far #go

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#american #art #chief #city #nearly

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. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#deal #events #going #great #great deal

It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#been #british #had #hold #mile

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. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#anxiety #apprehension #endless #forever #may

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#defines #democracy #does #extremist #first

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger. ↗

— Tori Amos

#finding #i #industry #newer #preoccupation