Obsession Quotes

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.

The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.

If meditate on the third eye and have headaches it means you are trying to pull in too much power from the occult chakra. The danger is obsession.

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.

The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

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.

An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

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

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant.

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

Until our mission becomes our obsession, we'll be chained to the realm of average.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.

Sunglasses are a bit like watches for me - a real obsession. My favourites are Oakleys, Ray-Bans and Wileys, which are worn by the U.S. military.

I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.

Accepting God’s acceptance of me doesn’t mean I’m going to stop trying. It means I’m going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession.

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

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

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.

Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression

I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess.

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

I have to work, for my soul.

Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.

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

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.

I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had that covered.

I was the fastest typist in my school, and I had an obsession with spelling and memorizing.

love is like Someone is camping in your head

Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.

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.