Quotes with obsession

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
  • 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 subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.
  • The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
  • 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.
  • 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 ever murderous obsession.
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  • Bud Grant Come September, the middle of September when the first frost comes, that's hunting season. Fishing poles are hung up and the hunting season starts. You've got to be careful, if you're a hunter, that it doesn't become an obsession.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Bella Freud Ever since I was little, I really loved boyish clothes - I had a real obsession with strict clothes, like uniforms. They really got me going.
    Bella Freud
    British fashion designer (1961 - )
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  • Ben Harper Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.
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    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Vikram Seth For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
    Vikram Seth
    Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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  • Beth Ditto 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
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Albert Einstein I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Elie Wiesel 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
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Antonin Artaud 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
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Brooks Robinson I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.
    Brooks Robinson
    American professional baseball player (1937 - )
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  • Barbra Streisand 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
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Alberto Giacometti In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Ben Elliot My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • Anne Rice 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
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Arianna Huffington 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
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Carl Honore 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
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Adam Arkin 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 subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Mick Jagger 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
    English singer-songwriter, composer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Marlene Dietrich Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Arthur Erickson The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • E. M. Cioran The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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