Each day we kill a compulsive love with our impulsive…

“The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make them any less neurotic.”

— Karen Horney

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it

— Joan Didion

My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.

— Christina Ricci

“Compulsive behavior occurs when the urge to act out is greater than our will to say no. Recovery then, is the process of reversing…

— Roger Stark

I'm, like, a compulsive eater. I'm going to be so fat when I'm older, it's ridiculous.

— Robert Pattinson

The compulsive, obsessive, high-end, achieving people, those are the ones that keep pushing harder. I'll name you the greatest players I ever coached, and…

— Urban Meyer

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…

— Adam Rapp

I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I…

— Jonathan Dee

Thinking is compulsive: you can't stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don't even want to stop, at least not until…

— Eckhart Tolle

Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to…

— Tim Howard

“Pharaohs It took Khufu twenty-three years to build his Great Pyramid at Giza, where some eleven hundred stone blocks, each weighing about two and…

— Daniel Quinn

Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now.

— Eckhart Tolle

“I lean my head back and stare at the stark white ceiling. “My friend Zoe used to say I had obsessive compulsive disorder when…

— Siobhan Davis

I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.

— Alan Cumming

I'm quite compulsive about exercise. For two months, I'll exercise every day, then for three months I'll do nothing. I love food, so exercise…

— Josephine de La Baume