Obsession Quotes - Page 2

• Obsessions turn people off.

  Grover Norquist

  People, Turns

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• You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity.

  RuPaul

  Bullying, Culture, Masculinity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

  Georgette Heyer

  Temptation, Promise, Wish

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• Cure for an obsession: get another one.

  Mason Cooley

  Life, Cures

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• Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession.

  Kenneth Coutts-Smith

  Artist, Quality, Common

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• Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.

  Richard J. Foster

  Ideas, Giving, Culture

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest.

  Woody Allen

  Weakness, Dangerous, Humans

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• For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

  Vikram Seth

  Self, Discipline, Substitutes

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• The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Dream, Memories, Mind

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Cypresses, My Thoughts

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.380, Parkstone International

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• We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

  Michael Adam Hamilton

  Self, Suffering, Realizing

  "Michael Adam Hamilton: Celebrating Life and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  Napoleon Hill

  Desire, Principles, Burning

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.62, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.

  Tippi Hedren

  Horrible, Objects

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• The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

  "The New Gods". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1969.

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• You start living for the obsession alone ... You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you're enjoying the road or not.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Want

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• An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.

  Terry Southern

  Hero, Hypocrisy, Abuse

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• ... obsessions are always dangerous.

  Agatha Christie

  Dangerous

  Agatha Christie (1944). “Crime reader”

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• I think life's an irrational obsession.

  Sean Penn

  Thinking, Irrational

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• I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Self, Improvement, Damn

  "Drop Dead Healthy" by A.J. Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2012.

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• I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Determination

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• Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.

  Arianna Huffington

  Women, Believe, Creativity

  "The Female Woman". Book by Arianna Huffington, 1973.

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• The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  People, Human Condition, Whole Life

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

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• Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

  Michael Caine

  Men, Games, Excuse

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• I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Needs, Film, Intense

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Boring

  "The Artist: the silent film they said no one wanted to see". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.

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