Compulsive Quotes

112 quotes by 101 authors

By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's behavior gave FBI… — Jeff Greenfield
I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will… — Etgar Keret
The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow… — Rem Koolhaas
There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term… — Eli Pariser
As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise, many began to… — Vance Packard
So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire.… — Dorothy Day
The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or… — Abraham Maslow
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has… — Bette Davis
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of… — Umberto Eco
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. — Steve Martin
Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate… — John Podhoretz
I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying… — Paula Poundstone
I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive. — Liev Schreiber
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures… — Eckhart Tolle
I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't… — Betty White
When people are told to 'eat many small meals,' what they may actually hear is 'eat all the time,' making them likely to respond with… — Andrew Weil
I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day. — Felicia Day
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive… — Martin Amis
You're so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all my things away and trying to… — Cassandra Clare
It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to… — Eckhart Tolle

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