Before I go up against the best forwards in the world - Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Neymar - I study their strengths… — Dani Alves Copy Share Image
Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“People who live with OCD drag a metal sea anchor around. Obsession is a break, a source of drag, not a badge… — David Adam Copy Share Image
I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she felt she would like to engulf him like a trap-lantern, and never share him with anyone or anything else again,… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
I have, at times, been absorbed in my work to the point of complete self-oblivion. Once I worked for thirty-six hours without… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
“Two words from him, and I had seen my pouting apathy change into I’ll play anything for you till you ask me… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I don't want to overplay the diary's significance, but it's a really helpful batting aid. It's not an obsession because I don't… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“Create something beautiful every day. Value each day as special and unique. Your obsession with past failures or future desires robs you… — Sean Starr Copy Share Image
“Most of us can manage no more than a narrow little obsession with a particular human who we mistakenly imagine can satisfy… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Working in the shop has taught me how utterly ridiculous the female fear of knees is. It's a bloody knee. It's bone.… — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
“We had, I felt, bared small pieces of our symmetrical souls to each other, fast, as if playing one of those breathless… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls?… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I didn't realize I was in an awkward phase when I was in an awkward phase. It was when I was between… — Sabrina Carpenter Copy Share Image
Every little crazy dream that I had has come true, and more. And I'm always mindful that this is not a birthright,… — Jim Nantz Copy Share Image
The marvellous thing about Proust - although it must have been a nightmare living in his head - is he forgot nothing.… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
I just think everything in moderation. I've never been into diets and it can become an obsession for some people. At the… — Rochelle Humes Copy Share Image
I think if someone has a gaming obsession, 'Ultima' became mine. I would say no other series ingrained itself in how I… — Todd Howard Copy Share Image
Perfection I've lived with the pretense of perfection for seventeen years. Give my room a cursory inspection, you'd think I have OCD.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“We all have a central fiction about ourselves, a favored delusion about talent or untapped potential. Most of us hang on to… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get… — Toni Servillo Copy Share Image
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It's a lucky kink for comedy writers that particular English obsession and interest with class and social difference. It maybe is not… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
I find it unnecessary, useless and frankly a bit unnecessary to get into all sorts of debates over President Obama's religion or… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The big problem with power, of course, is obsession. Once you get some of it and feel it, it dominates your whole… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Im tired of waiting,..tired of wondering if you will love me the way I love you. Tired of thinking will I ever… — Rizzi Vicci Copy Share Image
Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldn’t stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didn’t know, but she did know… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
R&D has been an obsession in Europe for many, many years. There is this magical number which many governments aspire to do,… — Jean-Philippe Courtois Copy Share Image
It is this obsession with GDP and FDI growth and a facile belief that this growth in the GDP would trickle down… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
“...the angel in man-- has also been my own life-long obsession. In a sense I believe it has always been the problem… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it.… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
I really wasn't into sports at an early age. I couldn't wait to get home from school and go straight to my… — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
