Obsessing Quotes

52 quotes by 48 authors

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied… — Claude M. Bristol
I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our… — Dan Chaon
I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep. — Miranda July
I finally understand that itâ€™s okay to be a little afraid of things but that obsessing over them does not mean you have any more… — Jen Kirkman
For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the… — Sloane Crosley
A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother. — Jane Fonda
There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life.… — Hugh Jackman
I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was… — Matthew Perry
I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother… — Ayelet Waldman
Honestly? I donâ€™t want people around me for two reasons â€“ they ultimately betray you or they die on you. Either way, youâ€™re screwed and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she… — Anne Lamott
Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be… — Anne Lamott
but i am content to live in the moment, and allow myself the daily pleasure of obsessing. nothing lasts forever, i tell myself. especially the… — Emily Giffin
It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving… — Galt Niederhoffer
As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I… — Natasha Lyonne
I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes.… — D. J. Cotrona
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Life is a careful balance between making the right choices and not obsessing over making the wrong ones. — MJ Korvan
You catch yourself obsessing over, and living in, the past. — Superman
No matter how madly you are obsessing over a crush, don't fall for anyone who treats you like just another ordinary person. You are special… — Superman

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