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• In Old Zen, the Zen Master would do literally anything to break down the concept of what the study was. He would present conflicting codes all the time, just to shake this fixation people had on how to attain liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Study, Breaking Down

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• I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.

  David Liss

  League, Justice, Fans

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• The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.

  Antonin Artaud

  Light, Noise, Ruins

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.12, Grove Press

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• Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Practice, People

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• To be fixated on Sahaja Samadhi is to be fixated. To be fixated on the idea of being not fixated is fixation too. All these ideas and definitions about enlightenment become silly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Silly, Ideas, Enlightenment

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• Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself. Have humility. Believe in yourself. Don't get a fanatical fixation on a teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Believe

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• Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Self, Care

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• I'd go to conference after conference and it would essentially be the talking points. Either pro or con. It's amazing how polarized the tech conversation is. There's also this neurological fixation, the incessant wondering what the Internet's doing to our brain: "Does it make us stupid, does it make us distracted?" And then the other guys say, "No, it's making us smarter than ever, and better than ever, and more connected." And it's like, where is the economic and social context? Why is that rarely considered?

  Astra Taylor

  Stupid, Talking, Guy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.

  Idries Shah

  Prayer, Mean, Emotional

  Idries Shah (1991). “Seeker After Truth”, p.22, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.

  Susan Orlean

  Car, House, Seems

  "The Too-Big House" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. June 21, 2011.

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• I have had death threats from people with fixations.

  Enya

  People, Threat

  "From the Heart". "You" Magazine Interview with Maureen Paton, January 8, 2006.

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• Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.

  V. S. Pritchett

  School, Eye, Games

  "The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers" by Random House, (p. 95), 1980.

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• It's hard for your mom to tell you she has an oral fixation and has to have something in her mouth. My step dad is in the kitchen winking at me. You down with OPP, yeah you know me. Exciting is and a special... What? Easy, and why do you know all the words? That's weird.

  David Spade

  Mom, Dad, Kitchen

  "David Spade: Take the Hit". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• What is with this campy fixation on all things Ronald Reagan? They talk about him the way gay people talk about Barbra Streisand. I think they want him on a stamp so they can lick his ass. I think they wanted to name airports after him so they can say, "I'm coming into Reagan!"

  Bill Maher

  Gay, Thinking, Airports

  "Bill Maher: The Decider". Documentary, Comedy, 2007.

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• Furthermore, [Sigmund Freud] had a racial fixation on sex, a fixation sufficiently pronounced to cause it to infect contagiously all modern European stock.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Sex, Causes, Modern

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• I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Kids, Trying, Needs

  "What I've Learned: Dustin Hoffman" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 16, 2007.

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• When we struggle agains our energy we reject the source of wisdom. Anger without the fixation is none other than clear-seeing wisdom. Pride without fixation is experienced as equanimity. The energy of passion when it's free of grasping is wisdom that sees all the angles.

  Pema Chodron

  Struggle, Passion, Pride

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

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• As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.

  Edward Norton

  Voice, Obsessive Compulsive, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

  Thomas Lynch

  Hobbies, Utterance, Way

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• Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.

  Sybil Adelman

  Mind, Looks, Fields

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Detach from emotions and desires; get rid of any fixations.

  Zhuge Liang

  Desire, Emotion

  Liang Zhuge, Ji Liu (2005). “Mastering the Art of War”, p.56, Shambhala Publications

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• The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone, Corkey Romano, and A Night at the Roxbury, leading me to believe not only do I have awful taste in films, but I also have a Chris Kattan fixation. What I don't have is $4000 earing intrest in a money market account.

  Jen Lancaster

  Believe, Night, Dvds

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• With your desire defined, quietly go within and shut the door behind you. Lose yourself in your desire; feel yourself to be one with it; remain in this fixation until you have absorbed the life and name by claiming and feeling yourself to be and to have that which you desired. When you emerge from the hour of prayer you must do so conscious of being and possessing that which you heretofore desired.

  Neville Goddard

  Prayer, Doors, Names

  Neville Goddard (2016). “Your Faith is Your Fortune: The Classic Guide to Harnessing Your Power Within”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a sadistic desire corroded by soul-destroying envy, to intimidate all those who might aspire to anything the slightest exceptional.

  Conrad Black

  Envy, Soul, Mind

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• Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks, to draw [one] towards a total exaltation in which the individual mingles, losing his consciousness in a truth immediate, rare, enormous, and perfect. If a work of art succeeds in this undertaking even for a single moment, it attains its goal.

  Iannis Xenakis

  Art, Single Mom, Mean

  Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.1, Pendragon Press

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