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Obsession Quotes

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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
Alexander Pushkin

Somewhere between preoccupation and forcefulness lies impetuosity.
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2.
To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.
Conor McGregor

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

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

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

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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
Alberto Giacometti

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

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Any obsession is dangerous.
Christina Ricci

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

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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.
Jacques Lacan

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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
Eric Hoffer

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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.
John Cusack

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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.
Becca Fitzpatrick

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

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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.
Niyi Osundare

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Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.
Jeremy Irvine

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No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.
Billie Jean King

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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.
Marguerite Young

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

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Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka

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

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

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

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Without obsession, life is nothing.
John Waters

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The West remains obsessed by the caste system.
Francois Gautier

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Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.
Trevor Dunn

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

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In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
Stephen King

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Success in life is about obsession
Massimo Bottura

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

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I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.
Veronica Roth

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Obsession with self is the motif of our time.
Charles Krauthammer

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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.
Robin Gibb

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

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

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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.
Norman Mailer

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

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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.
Fritjof Capra

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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.
Lucian Freud

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Obsessions turn people off.
Grover Norquist

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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.
Walter Moers

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

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

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The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.
Vincent Van Gogh