Obsession Quotations | Page 2

Obsession with conventional ideas of 'success' can be harmful enough, but compound that stress with relationships, family, financial woes and health concerns, and you find yourself in a constant state of fight or flight. This causes people to be more reactionary, which further perpetuates the cycle of stress.

Politics is not an obsession with me. It's something I'm doing now. I want to do good things, but if it doesn't work out for me, I'll go on to something else.

Ideas came swarming through her, and like many people who labour in the obsession of solitude, she lacked the detachment to challenge them.

I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill.

I always had an obsession with the digital music realm.

He has a great attitude. His obsession is definitely a benefit to him and to our program.

Here, we've developed an obsession for the long ball, just because we can. Other countries don't have that luxury, so they play a 'purer' form of baseball.

There is a misdirected obsession with weight and weight loss, the focus is all wrong. It's fitness that is the key.

Hurricanes became a media obsession in the mid-'90s, when there were two consecutive above-average years for Atlantic storms,

I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top.

I thought that my virtual obsession with him was well placed, and I was full of regret that I didn't get him.

I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.

I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness.

I went through an obsession with eyebrows. I used to paint my eyebrows really, really strong. I look back now, and some were a little bit strong.

I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.

Recent environmental disasters suggest that China needs to find a better balance between growth and environmental protection. The obsession with GDP has led to a neglect of growth quality issues.

Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

Passion is a positive obsession. Obsession is a negative passion.

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.

My obsession is to make films. It's the process, even though I go through a lot of anxiety over it, I'm sometimes pleased with the results.

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.

My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling like an outcast.

My release from the alcohol obsession was immediate. At once I knew I was a free man.

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

I'm not leaving until you tell me why you followed me. I know I'm a fascinating guy, but this is starting to feel like an unhealthy obsession.

The American obsession with 'Downton' amuses me slightly because it's such a fiction. I've always been questioned about my historical veracity, and 'Downton' just flies past, when it's completely made up.

We get more e-mails and mail on a daily basis about Nip/Tuck than any of our other series. It's clear that Ryan Murphy's unique vision for a show that is both addictive entertainment and a deeply penetrating critique of America's obsession with surface beauty has tapped into something very powerful.

The present obsession with a single ideological source of terrorism -- Islamist extremism -- is contributing to a dangerous disregard of other and rising dangers.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.

I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.

The Democrats' obsession with good policy can be bad politics.

... obsessions are always dangerous.

The form is always the measure of the obsession.

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.

I have this obsession with really cool, old books.

duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.

I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions...

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.

The happiest people I know are those who have an obsession to the obedience of God.

I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.

When I wrote 'The Shadow Thief,' I had an obsession with Peter Pan. I get focused on things. In fact, I was an absolute horror to live with at that stage. I had a big fight with my mum because I wanted her to change the windows so Peter Pan could visit me.

While I do have an affection for Jill Kelly, I wouldn't call it an obsession. Obsession is the sort of word one immediately associates with statements like, 'Your Honor, my client promises to keep the court-ordered mandatory distance away from...'

The government's ... obsession with choice ignores the fact that parents operate on a far from level playing field,

Due to the Fed's preoccupation over inflation pressures, next Thursday's CPI report will be the main focus, but the obsession over global central bank rate hikes should subside because there is nothing major on the next week's calendar.

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.

I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked.

I started experimenting with jewelry in my 20s - I was playing around with gemstones and painting things in gold leaf, and it turned into this huge obsession for me, so I launched my first jewelry line, Jade Inc.

I've been through almost every type of obsession as far as music genres go, so I usually say I just like a good song, but the songs that are the most universal that a person on the other side of the world knows and can relate to is a very powerful entity.

The sources and research I use for my inspiration aren't your typical sci-fi subjects, but it's really driven by obsession and personal anxiety more than trying to take up the sword and do what's right.

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

No, we don't have an obsession with kidnapping. We just follow the story wherever it leads us, and if it leads us to kidnapping, well there we are!

Your obsession with size has not led to superior earnings growth despite increased leverage.

This is satire. I am a satirist. Modern-day society has this obsession with needing to know every ounce of angst about performers' lives, to the point that it becomes more important than whether they can perform.

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.

It's just a simple hunting accident. It's a striking example of the media obsession with any peccadillo that may come from the White House.

It's basically a story about obsession and madness.

The obsession with this one individual at the expense of 11 million others is, in my view, wrong,

There's this obsession with the bottom being the best. So that's why, to get to the top, they want to act like they're at the bottom.

I kind of like pony tails, beards, maybe a tattoo. My massive obsession - I'm really targeting a niche market here - a hair lip.

I'm just trying to record as much as I can, ... It's like a lifelong obsession with rock music that I've had since I was very young. I don't know what it is, but I like it and want to be around it and participate in it. It's the same today, a very youthful kind of feeling.

I have to tell you I am losing a little patience with what appears to me to be an almost pathological obsession with calling into question the actions of men and women who are on the front lines of the war on terror.

But if I have an obsession at all, it is with hands. I love hands and I love lips. I never cast lipless actors.

Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

By relinquishing your obsession with the past and your fantasies about the future, you can tap into the power of the present and feel the force of love that resides inside of you.

Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Do you agree that when theres tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.

I'm really obsessed with the past.

An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge.

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.

I have to work, for my soul.

I didn't think it was fair to pretend to give of myself when I was so selfishly consumed with my own drives.

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

Any obsession is dangerous.

Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn't so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire.

Obsessions turn people off.

My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are,

Gunn, like me, has a James Bond obsession. He would love to be James Bond, and it's a great role that I would love to be, someday.

And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

It's a fantastic thing to take the risk of getting so close to your desire, expressing your obsession so absolutely.

I was still too young to know that there is no such thing as love without trust. There is only obsession and co-dependence.

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.

The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential.

I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.

All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.

In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.