Obsessive Quotes

188 quotes by 175 authors

I had enormous self-image problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do now, except I… — David Bowie
I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction. — Dave Navarro
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well — Tom Ford
I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive,… — Michael Gambon
I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But… — Tom Baker
Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they… — Peter Drucker
It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define… — Sigmund Freud
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts. — Theodore Sturgeon
I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were… — John Marsden
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme,… — Charles Baudelaire
All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too… — Stellan Skarsgard
I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't. — Daley Thompson
I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence. — Sumner Redstone
I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain. — Richard Ford
I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else. — Nicholson Baker
I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive. — George Hamilton
Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things. — Chace Crawford
I'd say I'm a pretty intense person. I'm definitely not my Denise character on 'Scrubs,' nor my Jane character on 'Happy Endings,' but I'm a… — Eliza Coupe
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 years studying fiction… — John Dalton
When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down. — Anne Enright

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