Obsessive Quotes

188 Obsessive quotes by 175 unique authors

When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy ... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds. — Jonny Wilkinson
The moment we let go of our obsessive concern for our own welfare, our mind naturally relaxes and becomes lighter. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Jude [Law] is really good at playing an obsessive. He has a very watchable quality when he's on a quest for something. — Steven Soderbergh
I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning. — Karl Lagerfeld
I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a… — Gloria Steinem
The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies… — Terence McKenna
Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice… — Adyashanti
Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it. — Eli Broad
You have to be able to observe life as if you were a camera all the time, constantly looking at light and the way that… — Ryan McGinley
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

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