Obsession Quotes

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

I have a gajillion headbands - yellows, pinks, reds, blues. I'm obsessed.

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

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

The form is always the measure of the obsession.

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

Any obsession is dangerous.

I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life

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.

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet.

One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.

You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.

I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction...my obsession.

The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

Without obsession, life is nothing.

You don't change the world out of obligation, but you will out of glorious obsession.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.

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

Success in life is about obsession

I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.

What is it with this American booty culture? It seems to me to be a form of obsession.

Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

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

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.

We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

I think I have mental problems, I think I have like weird obsessions with things, really annoying.

Obsessions turn people off.

Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.

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

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.