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Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. -- Norman Mailer
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men. -- Meryl Streep
Without obsession, life is nothing. -- John Waters
Obsession is a young man's game. -- Michael Caine
My New Obsession... is YOUR DESTRUCTION!! -- Mickie James
Cure for an obsession: get another one. -- Mason Cooley
Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art. -- Joss Whedon
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. -- Claude Monet
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness. -- Michel de Montaigne
Obsession with self is the motif of our time. -- Charles Krauthammer
Obsession and desperation for your goal, gets you the goal. -- Amit Kalantri
Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old. -- Michael Caine
Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work. -- Sandy Skoglund
Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter. -- Cynthia Ozick
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. -- Elie Wiesel
Obsession is like a pretty, little, picket fence that offers itself up as a thin line--a separation between ingenuity and insanity. -- S. D. Lawendowski
Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction. -- Pope Francis
Obsession is a negative word, I do not think that obsession can bring positive things. Not only in tennis but, I mean in any situation of life. -- Novak Djokovic
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession. -- Napoleon Hill
Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge. -- Anne Rice
Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless. -- Jacques Lacan
People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function. -- David Adam
Obsession is such a naughty word - it's a very intense word. I'm obsessed with music, always have been. I can't lie. And I'm obviously obsessed with my child, my child's life and the little things that he does. -- Kate Hudson
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 obsessed one has been taken over by a replica, a pod, a facsimile of the rational person. -- Susan Cheever
Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldn't stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didn't know, but she did know that before this was over, she'd either end up in Dmitri's bed . . . or one of them would bleed darkest red. -- Nalini Singh
Any obsession is dangerous. -- Christina Ricci
Obsessions turn people off. -- Grover Norquist
I think life's an irrational obsession. -- Sean Penn
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. -- John Irving
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. -- George Sand
In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact. -- Marlene Dietrich
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. -- Lucian Freud
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. -- Jean Racine
Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else. -- Ugo Betti
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. -- Emil Cioran
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
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory. -- Elie Wiesel
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 after-life. -- Arianna Huffington
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. -- Barbra Streisand
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable. -- Mick Jagger
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported? -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry. -- Vince Cable
I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things. -- Christopher Guest
I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess. -- Drake
Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters. -- Jeremy Irvine
Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K. -- Stanley Crouch
I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. -- J. J. Abrams
I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show. -- Vanessa Marcil
Everyone has their own definition of a healthy lifestyle, and mine has come to mean making health a priority but not an obsession. -- Daphne Oz
Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics. -- Sloane Crosley
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough. -- Eugene Delacroix
Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it. -- Beth Ditto
Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre. -- Julia Roberts
I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that's why we got him to do the voice over for 'Little Britain' because I was actually obsessed with Tom Baker. -- David Walliams
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported? -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture. -- Renzo Piano
I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do. -- Mary Archer
Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them. -- John Ortberg
Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration. -- Taylor Swift
The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good. -- Rachel Cusk
Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep. -- Carl Honore
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. -- Antonin Artaud
Everyone needed an obsession. -- Abraham Verghese
You're an addiction...my obsession... -- Sylvia Day
Determination could easily become obsession. -- N. K. Jemisin
Dancing is my obsession. My life. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Never love for me, only obsession. -- Carrie Fisher
Success in life is about obsession -- Massimo Bottura
Women have this obsession with shoes. -- Alexandra Paul
another word for talent is obsession. -- Marion Dane Bauer
The microscopic world became my obsession. -- Willard Wigan
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse. -- Alexander Pushkin
You're a human, you should understand self-obsession. -- Markus Zusak
Undeniable obsession of words that quickens my spirit. -- Euginia Herlihy
A public outcry usually masks a private obsession. -- Eric Schlosser
Create a character with an obsession, then follow. -- Ray Bradbury
In our culture, security has become an obsession. -- Benjamin Carson
The greatest obsession is I believe in myself. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment. -- Claude Monet
The form is always the measure of the obsession. -- Alberto Giacometti
I have this obsession with really cool, old books. -- Constance Zimmer
I happen to have an obsession with Korean food. -- Nina Garcia
To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible. -- Tippi Hedren
It's nothing serious," he said. "It's just an obsession. -- Mary Gaitskill
We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession... -- Brad Pitt
There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions. -- Jeb Bush
Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession. -- Alfred Stieglitz
For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline. -- Vikram Seth
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession. -- Claude Monet
Mind hates to seep in delusion soaking faintly discolored obsession. -- Munia Khan
Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession. -- Tahir Shah
The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I think that America has an obsession with history, really. -- JJ Feild
Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession ... -- Hallie Burnett
I only have one obsession - not to be boring. -- Michel Hazanavicius
An obsession is where something will not leave your mind. -- Eric Clapton
I will be my undoing If I become my obsession. -- Veronica Roth
I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore. -- Eric Kripke
Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession. -- Joan D. Vinge
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I think all males from Detroit have an obsession with cars. -- Dax Shepard
I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome. -- Donald Glover
Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness. -- Andre Bazin
The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential. -- Mike Dooley
I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies. -- Illeana Douglas
We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win. -- Douglas Adams
I have an obsession with Milk Duds. Eating them tastes like heaven. -- Olivia Holt
In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class. -- Laura Carmichael
There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system. -- Kit Harington
A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession. -- Emile M. Cioran
I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession. -- Vanessa Marano
This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it. -- Mary Ann Shaffer
I have an obsession with just watching people and what they're into. -- Zendaya
Until your mission is an obsession, nothing will change in your life. -- Robin Sharma
Love and hate are not opposites; they are siblings birthed by obsession. -- Steve Maraboli
Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people. -- Patrick Carnes
Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession. -- Kenneth Coutts-Smith
An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty. -- Henry Mintzberg
don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another -- Irvine Welsh
Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest. -- Woody Allen

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