Obsession Quotes

Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century, all the technology obsession.

..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

As her eyes scanned his face, he feared that she saw everything, right down t the core of him. Where his obsession with her was the strongest. -Butch and Marissa

I think challenge for Facebook is to develop a culture that has the advertiser and the ad service be as strong a part of their culture as the user obsession is.

Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn't so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire.

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

The obsession was so real and so prolonged. Sleeping was kind of like taking breaks from continuing the obsession.

I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didnt have time.

I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

Obsession can be a great thing or it can also destroy lives.

I think that's some of the stuff that we kind of joke on in the movie, this obsession; number one, winning is everything, number one, number one.

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

I think there has always been an obsession with youth and beauty. What's missing is the equal obsession with respect for…older people…and their wisdom and knowledge and courage.

I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.

[On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny.

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

Yes, because it's Len's obsession with practical. I've never really had that experience that I hear people having of being on an empty soundstage painted green talking to a tennis ball on a stick.

A friend of mine told me, you know your obsession with girls who talk like sexy babies? You have to put that into your script.

Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.

In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.

It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on a subject we see in philosophy or the work of Robert Wilson, for instance?

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them

Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly.

The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people.

I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.

another word for talent is obsession.

You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"

The element of obsession is terribly important for an artist.

I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.

I like to make pies. Thats kind of my new obsession - peach, blueberry, apple, strawberry. I make a really good pumpkin pie with real pumpkin.

These predators loved with wild fury, but they were also darkly possessive, crossing the boundary into what humans might term obsession.

What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!

I have spent the last five months obsessively working on Outlaw.

The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession - I can't really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum.

Obsession is a negative word, I do not think that obsession can bring positive things. Not only in tennis but, I mean in any situation of life.

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

Now I approach climbing differently. I have learned less effort and energy, less obsession, and more feeling, as with piano, more emphasis and less frenzy.

I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.

Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

Responding to climate change will become the obsession of the next decade in much the same way terrorism was this decade's obsession.