Obsession Quotes - Page 27

• Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Pain, Simple, Community

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• At age 12 I had an obsession with Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and then proceeded to watch all the other Kubrick films I could including a doc called Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures in which it was revealed to me that he started as a photographer...I got a camera sometime shortly after, but spent many years just photographing flowers in my neighborhood.

  Anton Yelchin

  Flower, Orange, Years

  Source: www.pasunautre.com

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• To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

  Conor McGregor

  Levels, High Level

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• We have to free the Muslim mind from the obsession with limits and rules and forgetting the path and objective. This is truly a liberating process, and for me this is Islam: liberation from the ego, and in this case liberating ourselves from the wrong understanding of the religion.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Understanding, Ego, Mind

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• Obsession is a negative word, I do not think that obsession can bring positive things. Not only in tennis but, I mean in any situation of life.

  Novak Djokovic

  Mean, Thinking, Negative Words

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• Let the people decide through the marketplace mechanism what they wish to see and hear. Why is there this national obsession to tamper with this box of transistors and tubes when we don't do the same for Time magazine?

  Mark S. Fowler

  People, Wish, Liberty

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• Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have amenities that have no true value for real, man. And I mean, we do it just to impress people that could care less if your children or your children's children have anything left to show for your life after you gone.

  T.I.

  Children, Real, Mean

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• My obsession when I was kid, from '85 into the '90s, was Gianni Versace. It was Helmut Lang. It was Margiela. So I said, "I cannot have Givenchy only as a luxury house; I'm going to introduce products for everybody, things that are reachable."

  Riccardo Tisci

  Kids, Luxury, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates her. That was the missing piece. Toast became the physical symbol of Mercy's hopefully endearing greed and obsession. Without that element in place, it didn't make sense.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Block, Greed, Missing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We see each other [ with Iman Abdulmajid] a lot. I couldn't stand to be separated 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

  Balance, Months, Share

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• [John Adams and Tomas Jefferson] shared experience in 1775 - 1776 in bringing about the separation from Britain and their service in Europe cemented a friendship that in the end withstood the most serious political and religious differences that one could imagine, especially their differences over the French Revolution. It was probably Jefferson's obsession with politeness and civility that kept the relationship from becoming irreparably broken.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Religious, Europe, Differences

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• The budget idea, I may admit, is a sort of obsession with me. I believe in budgets. I want other people to believe in them. I have had a small one to run my own home; and besides that, I am the head of the organization that makes the greatest of all budgets, that of the United States Government. Do you wonder, then, that at times I dream of balance sheets and sinking funds?

  Calvin Coolidge

  Running, Dream, Believe

  Source: www.mikechurch.com

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• Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing trends in education: in Nietzsche's case, the production either of 'useless', dry-as-dust scholars or people 'useful' for the needs of an expanding industrial economy; in my case, a similar subjection of education to economic imperatives, but also to ideological obsessions, notably with promoting 'equality'.

  David E. Cooper

  Writing, Dust, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but instead something more subtle. The effect is something like a cognitive seizure, marked by changes of personality, hyperreligiosity (an obsession with religion and feelings of religious certainity), hypergraphia (extensive writing on a subject, usually about religion), the false sense of an external presence, and, often, the hearing voices that are attributed to a god. Some fraction of history´s prophets, martyrs, and leaders appear to have had temporal lobe epilepsy.

  David Eagleman

  Religious, Sweet, Writing

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• Responding to climate change will become the obsession of the next decade in much the same way terrorism was this decade's obsession.

  Paul Saffo

  Climate, Way, Next

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential.

  Mike Dooley

  Long, Change For The Better, Instant Gratification

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• What has happened to Africa is very severe. We are talking about the collapse of this and the collapse of that, of good government, of the economy particularly. And this has hit education badly. The news you get from the universities in Nigeria is often appalling. I don't think a lot of it gets out. There is the obsession with cults and all kinds of dreadful things going on and all this is taking its toll and it is not surprising that quality of students and graduates who come out is not good. It will not be surprising if this shows in the quality of work they do.

  Chinua Achebe

  Thinking, Government, Talking

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• There's an obsession by the media to delegitimize Donald Trump, and we are not going to sit around and let it happen. We're going to fight back tooth and nail every day, and twice on Sunday.

  Reince Priebus

  Fighting, Sunday, Media

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We sometimes drive ourselves crazy with how our books will be "seen," when in fact we already know what they're about, and where our obsessions are. If we can spin those obsessions into fiction, then there's a decent chance they will be "fiction-worthy," as you call it. The idea of the "sweep of ideas" is a complicated one.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Crazy, Book, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have a few obsessions in life, and one is shoes!

  Danielle Steel

  Shoes

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked by what I already know how to do, by the fact that my obsessions nearly always mount a sneak attack, so that I find myself writing another version of the same thing.

  Catherine Brady

  Writing, Stories, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's always something else to work on and different solutions to these problems in the next thing. We each have a certain set of obsessions which we each cycle through.

  Leni Zumas

  Different, Next, Problem

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world of superheroes starting in third grade with my classmate, Wai-Kwan Wong. In a classroom of forty kids, let's just say there was a lot of undirected time. But this was good because I was a dreamy boy.

  Adam Ross

  Book, Kids, Boys

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to the book. It can be satisfying to banish poems to my "crappy poems" file.

  Anna Journey

  Couple, Book, Files

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.

  Anna Journey

  Peculiar, Landscape, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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