Obsessive Quotes

188 quotes by 175 authors

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd… — Gates McFadden
I sell a complete package... a life style that's in harmony with and exemplified by the exterior and interior living space. I'm obsessive about the… — Unknown Author
I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it. — Shawn Johnson
Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the… — Thomas Boswell
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing… — Arthur Miller
The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What… — David Brock
Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern, — Maurice Sendak
These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality. — Cary Cooper
We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and tumult. They get… — Rob Brezsny
In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey. — Paulo Coelho
You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is… — William Zinsser
Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange. — Tracy Kidder
These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who… — Catherynne M. Valente
Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. Â It has nothing to do with fixing things. Â It has nothing to do with… — Julia Cameron
Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego is… — Fritjof Capra
I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a… — Gore Vidal
The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song… — Nick Cave
If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to… — Marilyn Manson
A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization the state of affairs, arising out of a struggle against poverty, has overshot its ultimate goal-the liberation… — Ivan Chtcheglov
If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive… — Robert Towne

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