Obsession Quotes - Page 13

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

  Laura Carmichael

  Class

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Who needs a dream? Who needs ambition? Who'd be the fool in my position? Once I had dreams, now they're obsessions. Hopes became needs, lovers possessions. Then they move in, oh so discretely. Slowly at first, smiling too sweetly. I opened doors, they walked right through them. Called me their friend, I hardly knew them... Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. Times have been good, fast, entertaining. But what's the point if I'm concealing not only love, all other feeling.

  Tim Rice

  Dream, Moving, Ambition

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• Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.

  Sybil Adelman

  Mind, Looks, Fields

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.

  Leon Edel

  Eye, Four, Obsessed

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• Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Genius, Madness, Wellspring

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• The insanely gorgeous competition documentary on surfing obsession, Step Into Liquid — directed by Dana Brown and photographed by John-Paul Beeghly in hypnotic gradations of aquamarine — will send you into a dream state.

  Elvis Mitchell

  Dream, Competition, Surfing

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• The microscopic world became my obsession.

  Willard Wigan

  World

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• In our culture, security has become an obsession.

  Benjamin Carson

  Culture, Security

  "Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk". Book by Ben Carson and Gregg Lewis, 2008.

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• I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and whose heart is bursting with love, a writer sly enough to give the slip to her secret police, the ones who know her so well, the ones with the power to accuse and condemn in the blink of an eye. It's all right that she doesn't know what she's thinking until she writes it, as if the words already exist somewhere and draw her to them. She may not know how she got there, but she knows when she's arrived.

  Sy Safransky

  Writing, Heart, Eye

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• I couldn't stand to be separated with my wife for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.

  David Bowie

  Wife, Balance, Months

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• Most organizations only focus on WHAT they do and HOW they do it - tactics and strategies - and they aren't even aware that this thing called the WHY exists. Focusing on only two pieces of a three piece puzzle leaves an organization, or a career, inherently out of balance. Being out of balance, only operating on two of the three pieces, shows up in different ways - increased stress, loss of passion, obsession with what your competition is doing, being forced to play the price game, trouble differentiating. These are all signs that the WHY is missing.

  Simon Sinek

  Stress, Passion, Loss

  Source: www.personalbrandingblog.com

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

  Kate Bornstein

  People, Lasts, Obsessed

  Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.69, Routledge

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• I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess.

  Drake

  Sweaters

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• The nobility of Teresa Leo's poems is that they are not disposed to hide from the dark-rather, they display a mind that tends toward obsession and brooding, that works against fatality like fingers at a knot. The firm, attentive mind on display and the lucid unfolding of the poems are the life instinct seeking and finding its way through again and again. Love and beauty are the argument, but they don't win easily. Bloom in Reverse works through elegy toward survival with moving persistence, both driven and compelling.

  Tony Hoagland

  Moving, Dark, Winning

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• Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It's an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

  Sally Mann

  Artist, Numbers, Southern

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• Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.

  Helen Garner

  Book, Years, Punishment

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

  Herbert C. Brown

  Hate, Hard Work, Hard

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• 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.

  Arundhati Roy

  Data, Gathering, World

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• I have a gajillion headbands - yellows, pinks, reds, blues. I'm obsessed.

  Monique Coleman

  Yellow, Obsessed, Headbands

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• ...an imagined town is at least as real as an actual town. If it isn't, you may be in the wrong business. Our words come from obsessions we must submit to, whatever the social cost. It can be hard. It can be worse forty years from now if you feel you could have done it and didn't. It is narcissistic, vain, egotistical, unrealistic, selfish, and hateful to assume emotional ownership of a town or a word. It is also essential.

  Richard Hugo

  Selfish, Real, Emotional

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• I'm inspired by dreams and shadows, obsession and desire. By nature, I'm a dream collector and never stop working. I question people about their weirdest dreams and the strangest, most inexplicable experiences they've had. All this information whirls around in my mind, and new dreams emerge that form the seeds of stories and novels.

  Storm Constantine

  Dream, People, Mind

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• I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge.

  Jim Carrey

  Thinking, Trying, Happens

  Press conference on 'The Number 23', collider.com. February 21, 2007.

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• I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating.

  Tori Amos

  Death, Sharks, Obsessed

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• another word for talent is obsession.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Talent

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