Obsession Quotes

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If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession. — Carlos Castaneda
The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. — Phyllis McGinley
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or… — Iris Murdoch
The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life. — George A. Sheehan
When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. ItÊ¹s obsession at first sight. — Thomas Boswell
Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity… — Emile M. Cioran
Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire… — Napoleon Hill
The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession. — Dionne Warwick
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. — Lucian Freud
The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with… — Jeffrey Archer
People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays. — Don Cheadle
People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the… — Adam Arkin
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an… — Arianna Huffington
A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance. — C.S. Lewis
The more your meditation goes deep, the less and less you will feel the burden of the mind. The more and more meditation goes deep,… — Rajneesh
Since most of our fears are based on dark imaginings, it is vital for us to dwell on our magnificent obsessions and desired results -… — Denis Waitley
Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression — Lucretia Mott
After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me of an obsession. For years,… — Anne Sebba
It's all about self-discipline. Like, self-obsession is connected completely with self-loathing, and it's the same with, if you've got a weight problem. It's all about...… — Richey Edwards
Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost as if the… — Susan Cheever

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