Obsessive Quotes - Page 9

• I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so deadly focused on something that they want or desire - there's a dedication and a single-mindedness that's great. But then if it goes on too long it becomes a psychosis. What's the French term for it? Idee fixe.

  Callum Keith Rennie

  Dedication, Psychosis, Long

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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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• I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.

  Rob Zombie

  Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Before he came to Spain, photographers lined up in the discotheques, but they are still there waiting for him. Ronaldo is an obsessive of training, of the gym, of self-improvement. I’ve never seen a player in such good physical condition. He’s a gladiator.

  Jorge Valdano

  Player, Self, Waiting

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• Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for male affirmation. Tragically, these dear ladies allow themselves to be devoured in the arms of men who have neither regard not respect for them as people.

  T. D. Jakes

  Men, People, Males

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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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• As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.

  Emma Watson

  Children, Light, Singing

  FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Sep 03, 2013

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• If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with characters, they will recur, either as themselves or as new, slightly altered manifestations, and their same issues will reappear. It's a matter of the subject and emotional investment and my own obsessive thinking about various issues It's an unconscious process. To say that a single story is not done isn't quite true. A story can be finished and judged successful or not by somebody else, but if the issue is not done for me, I can count on its reappearance.

  Antonya Nelson

  Book, Character, Successful

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• My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Views, Preparation, Sides

  "Jonny Wilkinson's autobiography reveals him to be a tortured soul" by Paul Rees, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2011.

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• Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.

  Nat Hentoff

  Sports, Opportunity, Giving

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• Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for me, it's a vocation. It's not an egotistical thing, but something else. I'm in a dialogue with my audience, and that's something I need

  Steven Morrissey

  People, Personality, Fans

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• As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more harmful in those schools in which the resources available to help the children learn the skills that will be measured by these tests are fewest, the scores they get are predictably the lowest, and the strategies resorted to by principals in order to escape the odium attaching to a disappointing set of numbers tend to be the most severe.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Believe, Kids

  Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.110, Broadway Books

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• I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

  Barbra Streisand

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.

  Edward Norton

  Voice, Obsessive Compulsive, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We all have a friend or family member who can't bear the sight of a mess. Use her obsessive compulsion to your advantage! Whisper in her ear: "I'm always impressed by how neat your house is. Can you do me a favor and help tidy this place up as the night goes on?"

  Clinton Kelly

  Night, Sight, House

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• The writing is therapeutic for me, it's an introverted process, I'm really inside my head. It's a really obsessive process. The live show, though, is the opposite. It's an extroverted process. It pushes me to connect with people, and so it pulls me out of my head and just pulls me out of myself.

  Fernando Torres

  Writing, Opposites, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get obsessed and then nothing else matters. I was reading Somerset Maugham's novella, Moon and Sixpense, about this artist based on Gauguin's life. It was so beautifully written. You must be first rate because second rate you might not survive. If you're an accountant, you'll survive second rate. If you chance it big, you may not get anywhere.

  Joan Chen

  Reading, Artist, Moon

  "Joan Chen and Amanda Schull Interview MAO’S LAST DANCER". collider.com. August 18, 2010.

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• I was obsessed with Tupac - like eat, sleep, breathe Tupac. During this obsessive love affair, I dressed the part.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Sleep, Affair, Breathe

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• When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

  Daniel Craig

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• I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, and I nerdily sharpen all the pencils in my pot before sitting down to work.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Morning, Thinking, Sitting Down

  "Writers' rooms: Andrew O'Hagan" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2007.

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• Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life.

  Eric Maisel

  Powerful, Artist, Journey

  Eric Maisel (2010). “Creativity for Life: Practical Advice on the Artist's Personality, and Career from America's Foremost Creativity Coach”, p.26, New World Library

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• You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.

  David LaChapelle

  Real, Buying Things, Shopping

  "Pretty vacant" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2006.

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• He's famous for being obsessive about details.

  Matt Damon

  Details

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• The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

  George Leonard

  Lying, Discovery, Essence

  George Leonard (1992). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment”, p.69, Penguin

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• A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

  Robert O. Paxton

  Party, Goal, Political

  Robert O. Paxton (2011). “The Anatomy of Fascism”, p.372, Penguin UK

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