Obsessing Quotes

• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

  Elie Wiesel

  Life, Friendship, Relationship

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.57, Schocken

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• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

  Elie Wiesel

  Friendship, True Friend, Funny Friend

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.57, Schocken

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• One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Desire, Energy, Essentials

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.24, Lulu.com

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• It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that.

  John Cleese

  Years, Games, People

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• Concentrate on small segments of your race at a time. For example, rather than obsessing about the distance that remains, simply complete the next mile in good form...try another, then another, until the race is done.

  Jerry Lynch

  Running, Distance, Race

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• Try to focus on the things that you do have instead of obsessing over things you don't

  Hannah Hart

  Focus, Trying

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• It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.

  Galt Niederhoffer

  Book, Talking, Ideas

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• Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God's way.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Want, Way, Want U

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• We can't live our lives obsessing about the past or mourning the future. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to each other to live every moment of our lives the best we can.

  Lisa Mangum

  Responsibility, Past, Mourning

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• Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing about staff cutbacks and circulation declines, should embrace this book as a reminder of the highest ideals, and the absolute thrills, to be found in their profession. As for regular readers, Pulitzer's Gold offers marvelous storytelling, real-life adventures, and absolute proof that journalism can change our world for the better.

  Jeffrey Zaslow

  Real, Book, Inspiration

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• If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed.

  Jon Foreman

  Regret, Past, Yesterday

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• I'm learning how much I have to learn, how little I know, how fragile my understanding is. I'm learning to be thankful and patient; today is all that we will ever have in this life. If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed. The wise man seeks God in the now and brings both his regrets and fears before Him. The freedom that we are offered is truly amazing: to live, today, free from even our own fallen desires. This is where I want to be.

  Jon Foreman

  Wise, Regret, Past

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• There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.

  Anna Sui

  Different, Pieces, Furniture

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• I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past. I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Past, Dwelling, Sitting

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• Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.

  Melody Beattie

  Play, Worry, Illusion

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself”, p.58, Hazelden Publishing

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• I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

  Dani Shapiro

  Running, Haunting, Theme

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• There are certain parts of a classic nerd's brain that can destroy that person - obsessing about things to the detriment of everything else in your life. But those are the same tools that you can use to turn everything around.

  Chris Hardwick

  Nerd, Brain, Tools

  "Chris Hardwick: Lord of the Nerds". Interview with Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. June 17, 2011.

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• Stop being perfect, because obsessing over being perfect stops you from growing.

  Brad Pitt

  Perfect, Growing

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• It's nice that I can go down the road of obsessing over this smiley-face bullshit so maybe I can get free from it and think about something else-it's so banal and yet so crazy!

  Nate Lowman

  Crazy, Nice, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I find that going to bed without my phone or an iPad makes me sleep better and helps me wake up without obsessing over emails. It makes my day better.

  Jane Levy

  Sleep, Phones, Ipads

  Source: collider.com

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• And yet as a coach, I know that being fixated on winning (or more likely, not losing) is counterproductive, especially when it causes you to lose control of your emotions. What’s more, obsessing about winning is a loser’s game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.

  Phil Jackson

  Letting Go, Fun, Winning

  Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty (2013). “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success”, p.23, Penguin

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• Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.

  Rob Brezsny

  Fear, Evil, Despair

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• There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

  Hugh Jackman

  People, How You Feel, Might

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Jan 20, 2013

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• If I let a blue mood run rampant, before I know it I'm obsessing about the color of the satin lining in my coffin - will it match my dress? That's when I feel like Alice in Cancerland falling down the rabbit hole and just have to stop.

  Kris Carr

  Running, Fall, Blue

  "Crazy, sexy...cancer?". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. July 31, 2007.

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• I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was a kid; obsessing over, 'This joke doesn't quite work, we've got to get this right.' I was always like that, whether I was a member of a six-person ensemble or whether I'm the center of a show.

  Matthew Perry

  Kids, Laughing, Ensemble

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