Obsession Quotes

Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly.

It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

Obsession is a young man’s game.

My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour.

I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession

Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession.

I was obsessed, and like most obsessed people, I was the last one to know it.

Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.

I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.

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

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

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

I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.

I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little.

Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.

I don't understand people's obsessions.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.

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

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

I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.

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

I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I've been collecting shoes for a long time.

Never love for me, only obsession.

Never love for me, only obsession. Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination.

Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

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

I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.

What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.

The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.

My most favorite entrance music of all time... it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song [Animotion's "Obsession"].

Hating hard work can get to be such an obsession that you won't let it pile up.

Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession.

If one of God's children finds he cannot see or feel life in other terms than those of form, if he tries to escape and live outside of this obsession and fails, he generally calls himself a sculptor.