occupied in
Synonyms
Examples
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best.
One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity rather than contemplation is the object of life.