Obsessive Compulsive Quotes

• I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Hands, Hygiene, Freak

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• Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.

  Chace Crawford

  Cleanliness, Placement, Obsessive

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• I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Lines, Pairs

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• I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.

  Richard Ford

  Brain, Disorder, Tourettes

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• It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Religion, Development

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• Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them over and over again, wounding us deeply. Almost all humans have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) of the mind, which is why so many people become fearful, hate-filled, and wrapped around their negative commentaries. This pattern must be recognized early and definitively. Peace of mind is actually an oxymoron. When you're in your mind, you're hardly ever at peace, and when you're at peace, you're never only in your mind.

  Richard Rohr

  Pain, Hate, People

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• I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking.

  Deepika Padukone

  Obsessive, Methodical, Multi Tasking

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

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• love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Love Is, Mental Illness, Disorder

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• I'm not as obsessive-compulsive about certain things; I give a lot of latitude to people and support people. I know that I can't do it myself and that you're only as good as the people you have behind you.

  Donna Karan

  Giving, People, Support

  "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.

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• I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Next, Repressed

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.

  Tracy Kidder

  Clubs, Strange, Disorder

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• Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

  David Guterson

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.

  Louise Erdrich

  Discipline, Return, Causes

  "Louise Erdrich’s War Of The Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

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• I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.

  Freida Pinto

  Sleep, Order, Coats

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• I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him. When I write, that takes over and I can't do anything else. There's something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up. I've lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.

  Adam Rapp

  Dog, Fall, Writing

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• I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

  Demi Moore

  Eccentric, Sides, Knows

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• [George Carlin] was obsessive about time; he was obsessive compulsive about his material and making things shorter and more perfect. He did an HBO hour every other year. It's live; you have to be off-stage at 55 minutes. It's a network; you've got to be off. And it's perfect.

  Jay Mohr

  Hbo, Years, Perfect

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched in the basements of libraries around the world, madly feeding books through their machines. I download obscure tomes onto my iPad and give thanks to the dual gods Gates and Jobs, singing hymns to all the lesser pantheon of geniuses. But there's nothing like a book.

  Laurie R. King

  Jobs, Book, Hymns

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• Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Art, Hands

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• Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little voice will tell you which number to press. If you have borderline personality disorder hang up; you have already pushed everybody's buttons.

  Barbara Oakley

  Voice, Numbers, Personality

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• I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.

  Fiona Apple

  Morning, Lying, House

  "A New Album - and Life - for Fiona Apple" by Liza Ghorbani, www.elle.com. June 7, 2012.

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• I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.

  Charles Stross

  Wearing Black, Pockets, Woven

  Charles Stross (2010). “Glasshouse”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.

  Paula Poundstone

  Years, Numbers, Degrees

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• I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.

  Liev Schreiber

  Kind, Neat, Persons

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• I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.

  Felicia Day

  Games, Eight, Personality

  "How Felicia Day Recruited Millions For Her Guild". Interview with Gus Mastrapa, www.wired.com. September 29, 2009.

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