Obsession Quotes - Page 29

• All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a danger. In much the same way healthy nations are interested in their history, but a morbid preoccupation with past glories is a sign that something is wrong with the constitution of the State.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Past, History, Healthy

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• Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since.

  Johnny Marr

  Guitar, Age, Four

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• An artist’s work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and focusing on how to hone your quirky creative obsessions so that they eventually become so oddly specific that they can only be your own.

  Teresita Fernandez

  Teaching, Artist, Self

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• Without someone giving you a shot, opening a door, believing that your obsession is a real thing when you're young, you don't get the opportunity. Every single day I'm reminded of that.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Real, Believe, Opportunity

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"

  Matthea Harvey

  Father, People, Different

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I think challenge for Facebook is to develop a culture that has the advertiser and the ad service be as strong a part of their culture as the user obsession is.

  Jason Kilar

  Strong, Thinking, Challenges

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• My movie [The Neon Demon] is a hyper-version of the obsession with beauty. As this crazy obsession grows, longevity does not. Everything seems to become younger and younger. The girls and people around them cannibalize themselves.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Girl, Crazy, People

  Source: movieweb.com

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• It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all the "other animals" together beneath us. The resulting "speciesism" allows us to look upon animals as less deserving of all manner of rights and considerations than humans. To support this lower status, humans have argued that animals act instinctually; don't have souls; don't feel physical pain like we do; and lack self-consciousness, cognitive intelligence, emotional feelings, morality, and ethics.

  Sharon Gannon

  Pain, Animal, Emotional

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• We're a culture that's obsessed with people who make and who squander ridiculous amounts of wealth, which seemed an obsession well worth interrogating in a novel. That probably accounts for what some have called the book's "sweeping" feel, but I don't know that I set out to be cinematic. I wouldn't know how to do that in a novel, specifically.

  Matthew Specktor

  People, Culture, Ridiculous

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted the feeling of sadness and grief and obsession, so we used emocionó.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Grief, Sadness, Feelings

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• Conscious parenting is a new paradign shift in the way we look at our roles as parents. It's turning the spot light away from fixing the child and managing the child, obsession with all things that have to do with the child and the child centric approach and really focusing on the evolution of the parent. It about fully understanding that unless the parent has raised themselves to a certain level of emotional integration and maturity, they will really not be able to do true service to the child's spirit.

  Shefali Tsabary

  Children, Maturity, Emotional

  Source: www.chicagonow.com

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• As people's access to the internet grows we're seeing the sharing economy boom - I think our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point and the sharing economy is part of the antidote for that.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, People, Tipping

  "'Our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point': As he gives £1m to UK start-ups Richard Branson reveals why he's backing the sharing economy". Interview with Eleanor Lawrie, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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• I had to learn how to change my thinking because I can really get caught up in not liking my body. It can turn into obsession and it can be really bad. I think that when that rules your life then you miss the joys of life.

  Carmen Electra

  Thinking, Joy, Missing

  "Scary Movie 4 - Carmen Electra interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I am proud of Russia and I am sure that the vast majority of Russian citizens have great love and respect for their Motherland. We have much to be proud of: Russian culture and Russian history. We have every reason to believe in the future of our country. But we have no obsession that Russia must be a super power in the international arena. The only thing we do is protecting our vital interests.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Believe, Russia

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• I think love and obsession are almost one and the same thing at some times. Because the person you end up falling in love with, there is an element of obsession in the early days - it's all you can think about.

  Ladyhawke

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Elements

  Source: coupdemainmagazine.com

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• During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Sleep, Science, Curls

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• Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.

  Rebecca West

  Sex, World, Life Is

  Rebecca West (2011). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17”, p.82, Open Road Media

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• In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus making a video game of life and a false-reality composed of lies, what gets lost is a joyful obsession with the work we create from the purest of motives, a sheer joy in the act of creation itself that causes us to lose ourselves in something else, and in a way die to ourselves over the absolute love of a thing we are breathing into life.

  Donald Miller

  Lying, Reality, Breathing

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• The big problem with power, of course, is obsession. Once you get some of it and feel it, it dominates your whole life and it's all you can think about. That doesn't have to happen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Problem

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• Sunglasses are a bit like watches for me - a real obsession. My favourites are Oakleys, Ray-Bans and Wileys, which are worn by the U.S. military.

  Ross Kemp

  Military, Real, Rays

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• I'm really obsessed with the past.

  Fisher Stevens

  Past, Obsessed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.

  Cornel West

  Wall, Greed, Profit

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable.

  John Green

  Sex, Thinking, People

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• Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that one is right - that something that you're doing is better than something somebody else is doing, the way you're doing it is better than the way someone else is doing it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Religious, Buddhist

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• I have this obsession with really cool, old books.

  Constance Zimmer

  Book, Really Cool, Old Books

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

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