Neurotic Quotes - Page 11

• Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Want, Scripts, Perfectionist

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.

  Doris Lessing

  Children, School, Thinking

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• Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden ones - his mother and his sister. We have learnt, too, the manner in which, as he grows up, he liberates himself from this incestuous attraction. A neurotic, on the other hand, invariably exhibits some degree of psychical infantilism. He has either failed to get free from the psychosexual conditions that prevailed in his childhood or he has returned to them - two possibilities which may be summed up as developmental inhibition and regression.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mother, Growing Up, Boys

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.19, Routledge

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• We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Simplicity, Fellow Man

  Yutang Lin (1962). “The pleasures of a nonconformist”

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• The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.

  Tom Robbins

  Drama, Hands, Dysfunction

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure.

  G. Bruce Boyer

  Insecure, Style, Dresses

  G. Bruce Boyer (2015). “True Style: The History and Principles of Classic Menswear”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

  Terence McKenna

  Ego, Males, Population

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• I'm neurotic in the sense that I can have a crowd of 300 people cheering you, applauding you, standing O, but one guy come out of the audience and go, "Hey man, you should have cut 20 minutes. That wasn't so good." And I'll just obsess on that one guy. After all this love, I'll obsess on him and want to smash his face in and strangle him and kick him down the stairs and I'll be pouting about that one guy all night.

  Wayne White

  Cheer, Cutting, Night

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up a lot of oxygen from my time and my creative thinking.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Thinking, Oxygen, Creative

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• My mind has an obsessive, neurotic quality, but I also have a very hard work ethic. I know that a lot of people think, oh, you have a wild imagination. I don't, really. If ten people are sitting around and someone says, "Hey complete this sentence in a funny way," I'm never ahead of the pack.

  George Saunders

  Hard Work, Thinking, Wild Imagination

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Psychotherapy can help some people, especially people who are neurotic, who are always making problems for themselves. We are like a rider on an elephant. We can steer the elephant, and if he's not busy, he'll go where we want, but if he has other desires, he'll go where he wants. They need to get a better relationship between the rider and the elephant. In part, you get it just from watching yourself stumble around in life, make mistakes, then read a little psychology and stop blaming yourself. Realize that I am flawed. I am complicated. I am divided, and I'm doing the best I can.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Mistake, People, Psychology

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.

  Nancy Hale

  Civilization, Way, Achieve

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• I was neurotic and weird from an early age.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Age

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• My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.

  Gene Wilder

  Mistake, Character, Should Have

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• What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members have identical roles but are perpetually at war with themselves; a society of males made neurotic by suppressed masculinity, of females made miserable by having masculine roles thrust upon them that contradict their feminine impulses.

  Arianna Huffington

  War, Might, Succeed

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• I really like New York a lot, but I like it more as a place to visit. It was really difficult for me to live there. As a person from California, I'm still very neurotic and anxious, but in a more laid-back way.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Anxious, Difficult

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.

  Helen Garner

  Dream, Writing, Self

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• To get to go from stage to set and back, it keeps you feeling very present, and I think that's always such a wonderful thing in your work because you don't really have time to be as neurotic as I might become.

  Lily Rabe

  Thinking, Feelings, Wonderful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a number of symptoms that are neurotic and are constricting in the sense that if I had a brilliant idea for a film that had to be shot in Tulsa, OK I would tear it up and throw it away. Anything outside of New York, 'cause I can't exist in a hotel outside of my own home, I have to be in my own home and my own environment. This is a neurotic symptom that is constricting to my work even.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Home, Ideas

  Source: cinema.com

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• I'm quite neurotic, usually. But when it comes to work, I become extremely focused.

  Julie Delpy

  Focused

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2007.

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• Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?

  Jason Isaacs

  Strong, Real, Character

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm very sentimental and ambitious. I like to be relaxed and I like to live a peaceful existence, but that's very difficult considering I'm very neurotic. On the inside, I'm very chilled - but on the outside I'm a big mess of worry!

  Monique Coleman

  Worry, Peaceful, Ambitious

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Neurosis, Oscars, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's latter-day degeneracy could only conceive of the exceptional in terms of deficiency or affliction.

  Lionel Shriver

  Mother, Children, Civilization

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.113, Counterpoint Press

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• The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

  Ed Bliss

  Perfection, Healthy, Excellence

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