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• I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, People, Holocaust

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• If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.13, Mango Media Inc.

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• It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.

  Darcey Bussell

  Life, Dance, Selfish

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• A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Littles, Resistance

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

  Claude Monet

  Motivational, Art, Color

  Claude Monet (1969). “Claude Monet”

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• While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.

  Robert Genn

  Community, Moxie, May

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• I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.

  Graham Nash

  Insane, Stills, Know How

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• don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

  Irvine Welsh

  Jesus, Just One, Replaced

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• Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Hate, Confused

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• Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.

  Pope Francis

  People, Violence, Maintaining

  Pope Francis, McDonagh, Sean (2016). “On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment”, p.182

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• The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

  Lucian Freud

  Artist, Needs, Painter

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• What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Art, Moving, Ideas

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• Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Inspirational, Impulse, Compulsion

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• The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

  John Updike

  Artist, Risk, Excess

  John Updike (2012). “Assorted Prose”, p.189, Random House

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• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

  Elie Wiesel

  Friendship, True Friend, Funny Friend

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.57, Schocken

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• Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

  Taylor Swift

  Falling In Love, Passion, Frustration

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• No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.

  Billie Jean King

  Inspiring, World, Obsessed

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from Sep 24, 2010

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• These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.

  Claude Monet

  Reflection, Water, Age

  Claude Monet (2005). “Monet”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.

  Jean Racine

  Veins, Venus, Prey

  'Phédre' (1677) act 1, sc. 3

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• You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your desk are arranged in precise corners. If I had to guess, I would say you are probably a control freak, and that is usually symptomatic of a man who feels powerless to control his own life, so he tries to control every facet of his surroundings.

  Judith McNaught

  Wall, Men, Trying

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Someone to Watch Over Me: A Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Until your mission is an obsession, nothing will change in your life.

  Robin Sharma

  Missions

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 15, 2014

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• We want to follow a dream, yes it's true, but it's one thing to follow a dream and another to follow an obsession...A dream is more pure than obsession. A dream is about pride.

  Jose Mourinho

  Dream, Pride, Want

  "FC Porto foi a melhor equipa que já treinei". expresso.sapo.pt. March 23, 2009.

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• I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

  John Cale

  Thinking, Done, Kind

  "Of Anger and Twitching: An Interview with John Cale". Interview with Andrew Phillips, www.popmatters.com. January 9, 2006.

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• Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mma, Stronger, Helping

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• Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Self, Motifs, Our Time

  "Nixon On the Couch". www.jewishworldreview.com. October 18, 1999.

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