Obsessive Quotes

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

It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.

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.

I swayed into him, drawn to his obsessive and insatiable raw need for me, which reflected the depth of my need for him

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well

I was obsessed with Tupac - like eat, sleep, breathe Tupac. During this obsessive love affair, I dressed the part.

There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening.

I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.

I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking.

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.

If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.

I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.

When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.

There's an obsessive quality to it that I thought I would've grown out of by now. It's an ongoing source of shame for me.

That's what I try to do as a writer and as the editor of HuffPost: cover important stories in an obsessive way that enables them to break through the din of our multimedia universe.

I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf' And I loved 'Knight Rider' and then later 'Baywatch.'

These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.

I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things.

I am a really obsessive music listener, and I would look for clues.

Anorexia is a disease that happens to people, mostly women and girls, who have obsessive, perfectionist personalities.

A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status

I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

When I write I like to just say everything that people think about but never express vocally. I just get deep into it; I'm a bit obsessive about music.

If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

I get a little too obsessive with work.

I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.

Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life.

I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.

Now people are celebrated for being obsessive.

If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.

A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little novel [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

I'm still an obsessive personality, and I still think I'm right, and I still believe my literary balls hang far lower than nearly anyone else's alive.

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it.

Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion.

I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.

I don't want to be a movie star like Angelina Jolie. Nothing about being a celebrity is desirable. I'm an actor. It's bizarre to me that everybody's so obsessive.

I am not obsessive about anything except my health.

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

My attitude was always, if you are a huge metal fan, the more dedicated and more obsessive a metal fan you are, then why wouldn't you like more metal, widen your net, and include hair metal?