Obsession Quotes

Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don't, you are working.

... obsessions are always dangerous.

Producing is the antidote to acting. Producing is practical problem solving all day long. As opposed to endless self-obsession and navel gazing.

It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions.

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.

Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.

My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to the book. It can be satisfying to banish poems to my "crappy poems" file.

I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.

Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger.

The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business...I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.

In our culture, security has become an obsession.

Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.

I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.

I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly of white people in college.

The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.

I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.

I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on and on. It was my hobby, my pastime, and my obsession for several years.

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.

Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.

I liked movies so much that they became an obsession. I am still trying to kick the habit.

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

As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality - to create a future that never existed before.

The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.

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

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

I have a few obsessions in life, and one is shoes!

What's happened to marriage? The wedding-industrial complex. Brides get swept up in this world of obsession - it has to be your perfect day.

People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.

People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy's toys. They love playing... I would rather search for a new model or location.

I don't know if this is a good thing to say, but the musical obsession has almost shifted to a creative obsession now.

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

I'm really obsessed with the past.

Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.

The big problem with power, of course, is obsession. Once you get some of it and feel it, it dominates your whole life and it's all you can think about. That doesn't have to happen.

The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.

We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by having a terrific love for this world.

The danger to power is obsession - power junkies. You need a very strong mind and humor to balance yourself. If you don't, you will get shredded.

We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own.

There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.

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

We are obsessed with image. I don't think we should take it that seriously.

Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide solace. I don't know if it's shallow or silly, but it meant so much to me.

Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession.

I was ten years old when my first Vogue cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.

This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.