My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive. — David Fincher Copy Share Image
My brother Paul's really kind of obsessive, and he obsesses over things. — Kevin Dillon Copy Share Image
I just always wonder if I'm too obsessive about subjects. I try to avoid that. — Gary Gulman Copy Share Image
I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that. — Alice Eve Copy Share Image
I love obsessive fandom because I'm an obsessive fan who flips out over music. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I like to think of myself as focused in work, but it probably comes across as obsessive. — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
“As if he had simply stolen a piece of her heart and without him it refused to beat.” — S. M. Yair-Levy Copy Share Image
To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
“OCD. I’m more obsessive than compulsive, so most of the ‘disorder’ part takes place in my own head. That makes it pretty… — Tamara Ireland Stone Copy Share Image
“After the first week I knew every line, freckle and scar on his body. Some might call it obsessive. I called it… — Madeline Pryce A.K.A. FAyth Devlin Copy Share Image
“Overindulgence of our brain's tendency to wander is, however, a potentially debilitating problem. Psychologists have even coined a phrase to describe it:… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
I sometimes photograph my poems and get obsessive about this and spend a lot of time squatting over them but it's a… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture,… — Gates McFadden Copy Share Image
I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are… — Michael Gambon Copy Share Image
When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy ... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at… — Jonny Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I don't switch off at 5 P.M. I am obsessive and compulsive about what I do, so my personal and professional lives… — Joey Barton Copy Share Image
Insomniac is an impassioned work-an inspired amalgam of academic and first-hand research, memoir, analysis, and the kind of obsessive brooding we associate… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
My role relationship to the event will continue to mutate. My relationship to my mother will continue to change as I revise… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
In the end, oh I know, never, in my haggard passion, have I ever been such a cadaver as now as I… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
I don't even know if Stephenie Meyer could tell you why she was so fixated on this very, very contained story [The… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Take the gesture, the action of writing. I have an almost obsessive relation to writing instruments. I often switch from one pen… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
“Yeah. I can see what you bring out in him. You don’t know this because you’ve never experienced it, but Four without… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
When people are temperate in their behavior, in their lives, someone who is addictive or extreme or obsessive can't understand how people… — James Toback Copy Share Image
At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on… — David Brock Copy Share Image
Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
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… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Our mother always taught us to be in control of our voice and our bodies and our work, and she showed us… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image