Quotes about Obsessive

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art Votes: 4

Hungry people are always thinking about food; poor people are always thinking about wealth. Obsessive thinking can kill your dreams! Votes: 3

I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 be an obsessive hairdresser. Votes: 3

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay. Votes: 3

Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind. Votes: 3

Obsessive use of meditative disciplines or perennial study of scripture and philosophy will never bring forth this wonderful realization, this truth which is natural to awareness, because the mind that desperately desires to reach another realm or level of experience inadvertently ignores the basic light that constitutes all experience. Votes: 3

I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive. Votes: 2

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern, Votes: 2

Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary. Votes: 2

I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning. Votes: 2

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. Votes: 2

The moment we let go of our obsessive concern for our own welfare, our mind naturally relaxes and becomes lighter. Votes: 2

There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it. Votes: 2

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 great deal to add. Votes: 2

An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous. Votes: 2

It was always about love. Always, always about love. Lost love, love denied, the obsessive hunger for love. Parental or romantic. Whether it was twisted or pure, fulfilled or unrequited, love was always at the source. Votes: 2

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven. Votes: 2

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure. Votes: 2

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 in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual. Votes: 2

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 can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality. Votes: 2

[W]e have more than two options... a critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power.... [O]ur problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others. Votes: 2

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 things are placed and the way people hold themselves. You need the ability to see something in someone or something that no one else really sees and be able to bring that to light. Basically, you have to be an obsessive crazy person. Votes: 2

Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for me, is about putting on paper my obsessive interest in something mysterious. I may figure out the source of the mystery, the things that brought some action or image to my mind, but to make an equation of it would ruin the story. Votes: 2

I become kind of obsessive about research. Votes: 1

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Votes: 1

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive. Votes: 1

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well. Votes: 1

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all. Votes: 1

As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive. Votes: 1

I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf'... And I loved 'Knight Rider' and then later 'Baywatch.' Votes: 1

My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone. Votes: 1

While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses. Votes: 1

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 writing at the University of Iowa. Votes: 1

I made a film called 'Bad Timing' that I thought everybody would respond to. It was about obsessive love and physical obsession. I thought this must touch everyone, from university dons down. Votes: 1

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 my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness. Votes: 1

The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders. Votes: 1

I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation. Votes: 1

Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourette's Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior. Votes: 1

You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, 'You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.' Votes: 1

Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else. Votes: 1

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior. Votes: 1

The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer. Votes: 1

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do. Votes: 1

I am an obsessive flyer, myself. Votes: 0

He's famous for being obsessive about details. Votes: 0

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity. Votes: 0

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side. Votes: 0

Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate. Votes: 0

I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive. Votes: 0

I get a little too obsessive with work. Votes: 0

love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized! Votes: 0

I am not obsessive about anything except my health. Votes: 0

I become quite obsessive when I get into something. Votes: 0

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive. Votes: 0

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts. Votes: 0

I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive. Votes: 0

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction. Votes: 0

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Votes: 0

I interview every employeeand I have 3000 employees. It's an obsessive sickness. Votes: 0

Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things. Votes: 0

I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life. Votes: 0

I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible. Votes: 0

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down. Votes: 0

The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death. Votes: 0

I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence. Votes: 0

I am a really obsessive music listener, and I would look for clues. Votes: 0

Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion. Votes: 0

Kiss me twice, I am schizophrenic .. Kiss me ten times, I am obsessive! Votes: 0

I do seem like the kind of guy who'd be obsessive about Rubik's Cubes. Votes: 0

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Votes: 0

I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. Votes: 0

I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands. Votes: 0

Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange. Votes: 0

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well Votes: 0

Fashion is this obsessive narrative that people don't understand but they can't stop looking at. Votes: 0

Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health. Votes: 0

I just always wonder if I'm too obsessive about subjects. I try to avoid that. Votes: 0

I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else. Votes: 0

Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming. Votes: 0

Limerence is an obsessive, unrequited love. It is actually a disorder. A disease if you will. Votes: 0

I think I have minor obsessive compulsive disorder. Everything has to be tidy and just right. Votes: 0

I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't. Votes: 0

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it. Votes: 0

In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey. Votes: 0

All of us task-oriented obsessive compulsives must learn to slow down and let people into our lives. Votes: 0

I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking. Votes: 0

I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach. Votes: 0

Anorexia is a disease that happens to people, mostly women and girls, who have obsessive, perfectionist personalities. Votes: 0

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it. Votes: 0

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive. Votes: 0

These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality. Votes: 0

Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace. Votes: 0

Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear. Votes: 0

Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching. Votes: 0

To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right. Votes: 0

I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over. Votes: 0

I was told I have obsessive behavioral traits. I looked up everything to do with obsession after that. Votes: 0

It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text. Votes: 0

As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures. Votes: 0

I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it. Votes: 0

It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience. Votes: 0

I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day. Votes: 0

I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me. Votes: 0

I modelled in my 20s, and it was an obsessive time. I was under pressure to look a certain way. Votes: 0

I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that. Votes: 0

I was obsessed with Tupac - like eat, sleep, breathe Tupac. During this obsessive love affair, I dressed the part. Votes: 0

A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status Votes: 0

Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it. Votes: 0

I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things. Votes: 0

There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening. Votes: 0

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. Votes: 0

It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much. Votes: 0

Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive. Votes: 0

I have an addictive personality. I was addicted to computer games... and then all that obsessive nature just piled into music. Votes: 0

While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it. Votes: 0

Jude [Law] is really good at playing an obsessive. He has a very watchable quality when he's on a quest for something. Votes: 0

Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor. Votes: 0

I swayed into him, drawn to his obsessive and insatiable raw need for me, which reflected the depth of my need for him Votes: 0

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time. Votes: 0

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver. Votes: 0

I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'. Votes: 0

There's an obsessive quality to it that I thought I would've grown out of by now. It's an ongoing source of shame for me. Votes: 0

I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that. Votes: 0

I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts. Votes: 0

When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment. Votes: 0

Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment. Votes: 0

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was. Votes: 0

I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old! Votes: 0

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts. Votes: 0

Facebook and pictures on the Internet have created such a different way of dating. It's not necessarily good because an obsessive quality can develop in people. Votes: 0

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 it. Votes: 0

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate. Votes: 0

If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive. Votes: 0

It's always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they're eccentric because of it. Votes: 0

I'm still an obsessive personality, and I still think I'm right, and I still believe my literary balls hang far lower than nearly anyone else's alive. Votes: 0

If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles. Votes: 0

I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything. Votes: 0

One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional... Maybe that's a strong word, but how obsessive I am. Votes: 0

I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in these early parts of my career. Votes: 0

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 slow environmental suicide. Votes: 0

I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down. Votes: 0

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music. Votes: 0

If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work. Votes: 0

I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf' And I loved 'Knight Rider' and then later 'Baywatch.' Votes: 0

I'm an obsessive musical theatre person, so some of the most formative albums for me were, you know, the 'Phantom Of The Opera' soundtrack or 'Into The Woods.' Votes: 0

When I write I like to just say everything that people think about but never express vocally. I just get deep into it; I'm a bit obsessive about music. Votes: 0

I don't want to be a movie star like Angelina Jolie. Nothing about being a celebrity is desirable. I'm an actor. It's bizarre to me that everybody's so obsessive. Votes: 0

The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga. Votes: 0

I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little novel [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries]. Votes: 0

I don't even know if Stephenie [Meyer] could tell you why she was so fixated on [Twilight] very, very contained story about these very obsessive characters. It's just an anomaly. Votes: 0

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness. Votes: 0

When I get into collecting things, I get a little obsessive. Which is why when I start buying comics, I buy way too many, and I have to stop myself. Votes: 0

I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it. Votes: 0

The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear. Votes: 0

Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process. Votes: 0

I have an obsessive character. I manicure my nails at three in the morning because nobody else can do it the right way. Maybe that's the secret to my success. Votes: 0

I just want to write. It's like once I get those obsessive thoughts out of my head, once they're written down, they're somehow set free and I can move on. Votes: 0

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes. Votes: 0

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, and much more difficult to store. Votes: 0

No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has continued to be - not being able to write. Votes: 0

The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised. Votes: 0

Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life. Votes: 0

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 religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis. Votes: 0

Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future. Votes: 0

What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that's what nerdiness really is - its people who don't just passively like something, they get passionate about whatever they like. Votes: 0

To my way of thinking, passive management of file assets is okay for screwing around with iPads, where we're mainly watching TV on Netflix or obsessive-compulsively checking the popularity of our Instagram uploads. Votes: 0

For the record, I would like to point out that it is NOT being obsessive to memorize a boy's schedule so that you can accidentally bump into him. It is called being efficient. Votes: 0

Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some kind of strange obsessive stubborn conviction, that no one seems to understand. Votes: 0

That's what I try to do as a writer and as the editor of HuffPost: cover important stories in an obsessive way that enables them to break through the din of our multimedia universe. Votes: 0

There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover. Votes: 0

In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being. Votes: 0

I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes. Votes: 0

You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests. Votes: 0

Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive. Votes: 0

The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and old, junior and senior, no more nerdy or obsessive than most hard workers. Votes: 0

It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few. Votes: 0