Obsessive Quotes

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I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

I am an obsessive flyer, myself.

The moment we let go of our obsessive concern for our own welfare, our mind naturally relaxes and becomes lighter.

It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.

I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.

I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.

Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.

My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.

I do seem like the kind of guy who'd be obsessive about Rubik's Cubes.

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.

When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy ... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.

It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.

I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.

I just want to write. It's like once I get those obsessive thoughts out of my head, once they're written down, they're somehow set free and I can move on.

I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.

Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.

I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.

I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.

There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.

Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some kind of strange obsessive stubborn conviction, that no one seems to understand.

I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor.

Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.

Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

I just always wonder if I'm too obsessive about subjects. I try to avoid that.

I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate.

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

I become kind of obsessive about research.

To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right.

I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!

I have an obsessive character. I manicure my nails at three in the morning because nobody else can do it the right way. Maybe that's the secret to my success.

Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.