“Is there even any such thing as dedication without obsession?” — Petra Durst-Benning Copy Share Image
I've always had the wish, the need, and the obsession to become a public poet. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination. — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
You cannot intellectualize yourself out of obsession. You cannot cure yourself of it. — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
Politics is not an obsession with me. It's something I'm doing now. I want to do good things, but if it doesn't… — Juan Vargas Copy Share Image
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today. — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential. — Mike Dooley Copy Share Image
I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy's toys. They love playing... I would rather search for a… — Ellen von Unwerth Copy Share Image
I'm quite happy to laugh at Argentina's obsession with ham and cheese, but not, you know, delicate bits of their history. — James May Copy Share Image
Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
“With the help of fanzines and close attention to the text of the game you can actually learn to speak Tsolyanu while… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
I had to learn how to change my thinking because I can really get caught up in not liking my body. It… — Carmen Electra Copy Share Image
Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can… — Vince Aletti Copy Share Image
I'm very sceptical about some of the excesses that I regard the Milibands of this world are leading towards. When you think… — Frederick Forsyth Copy Share Image
Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
“We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession… — Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica Copy Share Image
People always use the word 'obsession' in a negative way, which I'm always amazed by. We are not obsessed in the way… — Petr Cech Copy Share Image
I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
[John Adams and Tomas Jefferson] shared experience in 1775 - 1776 in bringing about the separation from Britain and their service in… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
“She’s a sickness in my head.” Then get well. What you feel is self-made and attended to over time. You want to… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
A lot of people seem to think that art or photography is about the way things look, or the surface of things.… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
![“We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely necessary to reveal everything [in Confession] to a priest who is a witness to our repentance…” quote by Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/84a/elder-thaddeus-of-vitovnica-33_christianity_we-need-repentance-you-see-repentance-is_41357.jpg)
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