Fixation Quotes

“A wish without a potential is just a fixation.”

— Zinny Ekechukwu

Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life.

— Miyamoto Musashi

I have had death threats from people with fixations.

— Enya

The mammary fixation is the most American of the sex fetishes.

— Molly Haskell

“I have a slight oral fixation.”

— Julie James

Detach from emotions and desires; get rid of any fixations.

— Zhuge Liang

The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.

— Antonin Artaud

But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.

— Linford Christie

In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.

— Jeff Feuerzeig

To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.

— Bell Hooks

Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.

— Susan Orlean

Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.

— Frederick Lenz

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

— Naomi Wolf

Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.

— Sybil Adelman

In Old Zen, the Zen Master would do literally anything to break down the concept of what the study was. He would…

— Frederick Lenz

It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when…

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“When we forgive someone, we don’t pretend that the harm didn’t happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what…

— Sharon Salzberg

Watching people reach a higher level of consciousness. A fixation. For a few moments in their lives, they transcend and become lost…

— Jeff Mills

Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.

— Frederick Lenz

Furthermore, [Sigmund Freud] had a racial fixation on sex, a fixation sufficiently pronounced to cause it to infect contagiously all modern European…

— L. Ron Hubbard

As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an…

— Edward Norton

“I thought of nothing but her. I expected everything from her. I was ready to lay everything at her feet. I was…

— Hermann Hesse

Naming is like putting a stamp on something and fixing it. A kind of formaldehyde sort of fixation, but it becomes dead,…

— Chinua Achebe

[T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence…

— Thomas Wolfe

With your desire defined, quietly go within and shut the door behind you. Lose yourself in your desire; feel yourself to be…

— Neville Goddard

The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling…

— Billy Campbell

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or…

— Jonah Goldberg

Meditation is one of the rare occasions when we're not doing anything. Otherwise, we're always doing something, we're always thinking something, we're…

— Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve…

— Dale Carnegie

The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some…

— Julian Huxley

England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land…

— William Crookes

Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however…

— Paul Auster

I'd go to conference after conference and it would essentially be the talking points. Either pro or con. It's amazing how polarized…

— Astra Taylor

Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.

— Sarah Manguso

I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.

— David Liss

Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

— N. T. Wright

When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength.

— Momofuku Ando

Where are we going? You never told me." "My home in Romania." Wow, this guy wasn’t kidding with his Dracula fixation.

— Jeaniene Frost

Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to…

— Frederick Lenz