Obsession Quotes - Page 17

• Determination could easily become obsession.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Determination

  N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.189, Hachette UK

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• It's all about self-discipline. Like, self-obsession is connected completely with self-loathing, and it's the same with, if you've got a weight problem. It's all about... finding some worth in yourself, knowing that you've got the discipline to do it, and knowing that other people maybe can't do it. And it's also, I think, really connected to the fact that you almost feel, like, silent, you have no voice, you're mute, there's just no, you've got no option. Even if you could express yourself nobody would listen anyway. Things that go on inside you, there's no other way to get rid of them.

  Richey Edwards

  Self Harm, Thinking, Knowing

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• A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

  Ade Edmondson

  People, Looks, Obsessed

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

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• After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me of an obsession. For years, I've had to take houses big enough to hold all these bibelots. I am almost grateful to him."

  Anne Sebba

  Mother, Freedom, Grateful

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• We''re all misfits here,” he says, almost proudly. “That's why I started this squat, after all.  For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere else.  Halfies and homos and hopeless romantics, the outcast and outrageous and terminally weird.  That's where art comes from, Jimmy, my friend.  From our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions.  From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.

  Terri Windling

  Art, Passion, Unique

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• Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression

  Lucretia Mott

  Christian, Heart, Compassion

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• Since most of our fears are based on dark imaginings, it is vital for us to dwell on our magnificent obsessions and desired results - to look at where we want to go, as opposed to that troubled place where we may have been or may still be hiding.

  Denis Waitley

  Fear, Dark, May

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• The more your meditation goes deep, the less and less you will feel the burden of the mind. The more and more meditation goes deep, the less and less you will be a mind. Thoughts will become rare, and ultimately they cease. That doesn't mean you become unthinking; it only means that your consciousness becomes clear, transparent, without thoughts moving continuously as clouds. Whenever you need to think you can think; but now thought becomes an instrument to you, not an obsession as it is presently. Thoughts are an obsession without meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

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• It's about living in the moment and appreciating the smallest things. Surrounding yourself with the things that inspire you and letting go of the obsessions that want to take over your mind. It is a daily struggle sometimes and hard work but happiness begins with your own attitude and how you look at the world.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Letting Go, Attitude, Struggle

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• The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save it, he ends up wasting the whole thing.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Simple, Trying, Saving

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• I'm not leaving until you tell me why you followed me. I know I'm a fascinating guy, but this is starting to feel like an unhealthy obsession.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Guy, Leaving, Starting

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2014). “Hush, Hush Parts 1 & 2: includes Hush, Hush and Crescendo”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• You're an addiction...my obsession.

  Sylvia Day

  Addiction

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.252, Penguin

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

  Don Cheadle

  Opportunity, People, Obsessed

  "14 Questions With Don Cheadle". Interview with Jennifer Cox, www.askmen.com.

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• Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Only if you do that can you hope to make the reader feel every particle of what you, the writer, have known and feel compelled to share."---Forward to Kafka's Short stories

  Anne Rice

  Fashion, Water, Soul

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• I will be my undoing, If I become my obsession. I will forget the ones I love, If I do not serve them. I will war with others, If I refuse to see them. Therefore, I choose to turn away From my reflection, To rely not on myself But on my brothers and sisters, To project always outward Until I disappear [And only God remains.]

  Veronica Roth

  Brother, War, Reflection

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• It was so silly to try to define things by words. What did one person mean by infatuation or obsession and another mean by love. The whole thing couldn't be tidied away with neat little labels." - Lena Gray

  Maeve Binchy

  Silly, Mean, Trying

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• When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. Itʹs obsession at first sight.

  Thomas Boswell

  Falling In Love, Golf, Sight

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• Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience ... centered primarily around bodily pleasures and status rankings. ... The common denominator is a rugged and ragged individualism and rapacious hedonism in quest of a perennial "high" in body and mind.

  Cornel West

  Addiction, Seductive, Black History

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• I mean its an obsession, you follow the obsession but at the same time you have so many doubts, you know. Why am I wasting so much money going back to this place, taking more pictures? What’s the point of it? No one cares about it. I think I care about it but maybe I am deceiving myself.

  Alex Webb

  Mean, Thinking, Doubt

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• The cure is care. Caring for others is the practice of peace. Caring becomes as important as curing. Caring produces the cure, not the reverse. Caring about nuclear war and its victims is the beginning of a cure for our obsession with war. Peace does not comes through strength. Quite the opposite: Strength comes through peace. The practices of peace strengthen us for every vicissitude. . . . The task is immense!

  Sargent Shriver

  War, Caring, Opposites

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• The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Deterioration, Gone, Before Marriage

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

  Fiona Shaw

  Generations, Obsessed, Born

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

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• One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

  Penn Jillette

  Reality, Differences, Magic

  "Voodoo and Violence". Interview with Steve Kurtz, reason.com. April 1994.

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• I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang with pain and pleasure. You have been my obsession, my passion, my philosophers' stone of fantasy. You are my desire, my longing, my spirit. I love you unconditionally. - Sabine Strohem

  Nick Bantock

  Pain, Love You, Passion

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• But if we believe what we profess concerning the worth of the individual, then the idea of individual development within a framework of ethical purpose must become our deepest concern, our national preoccupation, our passion, our obsession. We must think of education as relevant for everyone everywhere - at all ages and in all conditions of life.

  John W. Gardner

  Life, Believe, Passion

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