Obsession Quotes - page 4

Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again. (Toni Servillo)
I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show. View quote
Vanessa Marcil
I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate. View quote
Zosia Mamet
I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me. View quote
Candice Bergen
Imagination and obsession are the keys to getting a good idea. To help your imagination keep your eyes and ears open. Avoid the "not invented here prejudice." View quote
Martin Lewis Perl
Never love for me, only obsession. Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run. View quote
Carrie Fisher
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable. View quote
Mick Jagger
So let's start telling the truth: competitiveness is a meaningless word when applied to national economies. And the obsession with competitiveness is both wrong and dangerous. View quote
Paul Krugman
This article makes three points. First, it argues that concerns about competitiveness are, as an empirical matter, almost completely unfounded. Second, it tries to explain why defining the economic problem as one of international competition is nonetheless so attractive to so many people. Finally, it argues that the obsession with competitiveness is not only wrong but dangerous, skewing domestic policies and threatening the international economic system. View quote
Paul Krugman
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. View quote
Osbert Sitwell
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. (Lucian Freud)
I get an obsession that everybody is out for what they can get during the war and it makes me sick. View quote
Stanley Baldwin
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. View quote
Jacques Lacan
...) All you need is to get rid of the tendency to define yourself. All definitions apply to your body only and its expressions. Once this obsession with the body goes, you will revert to your natural state, spontaneously and effortlessly. (... View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
While one should always be vigilant for traces of totalitarianism in any ideology or movement, the obsession with fascism in the anti-Hindu rhetoric of the secularists is not the product of an analysis of the data, but of their own political compulsions. View quote
Koenraad Elst
don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another. View quote
Irvine Welsh
There's something I've been working on for more than a year - maybe it's just an old man's obsession, but I'm trying to find an approach to quantum mechanics that makes more sense than existing approaches. I've just finished editing the second edition of my book, Lectures on Quantum Mechanics, in which I think I strengthen the argument that none of the existing interpretations of quantum mechanics are entirely satisfactory. View quote
Steven Weinberg
I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory. View quote
Elie Wiesel
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. View quote
Anne Rice
I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. (J. J. Abrams)
Anyone who is of a thoughtful, philisophical cast of mind will occasionaly be struck by the appearance of certain organizing principles of history. The forms these principles seem to take inevitably depends upon one's specific obsession. For a mornachist, history is a struggle of classes of economic civil war. An agriculturalist sees the dynamic of populations, land, and availability of food; a philosopher might speak of the will to power or the will to sythesis; a theologian of the will of God. View quote
Matthew Stover
...just like anybody else with an obsession, whether it be fishing, bowling or skiing, he has ways he can vicariously satisfy it. Maybe he is going to peep shows and reading detective magazines. I think there's an excellent chance that one way he gets off is by going to look at what that call the slasher films. View quote
Ted Bundy
A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession. View quote
Emil Cioran
I started doing electronics when I was a little kid, in the 5th or 6th grade, buying computer parts at a swap meet and writing my first programs. Simple things just blew my mind with respect to the sort of infinite simulation or combinatorial possibility inside the computer. My personal obsession from my childhood was that I just wanted to recreate reality inside the computer and then go in there. View quote
Philip Rosedale